This reminded me of the Game Boy magnifying glass. I might have to dig it out.
Ask HN: Why does HN require tiny baby fingers to operate on a phone?
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#12January 2007. Steve Jobs introduces the iPhone web browser. “And to zoom in on any page, you just drag with two fingers… like this.” The crowd goes wild. Nobody has ever seen multitouch gestures before. Still works!
This means two actions (zoom+click) when one would be enough. Efficiency first!
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#13January 2007. Steve Jobs introduces the iPhone web browser. “And to zoom in on any page, you just drag with two fingers… like this.” The crowd goes wild. Nobody has ever seen multitouch gestures before. Still works!
is this a serious answer or trolling? how would web experience on mobile be if i have to manually zoom everything all of the time?
fact is NH on mobile web is not optimized for unknown reasons. its not a big challenge to do it either. I have a userscript that makes everything bigger and removes junk out.
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#15I only browse HN on my phone, and don't login to comment / submit URLs. I've bookmarked /newest so I go there straight away and don't have to hunt it down every-time and squint to see it. I would recommend using a desktop workstation for interacting with HN for submitting, commenting, upvoting, etc
i'm currently living on a boat (since a month) and don't have that luxury. It's a phone or nothing. #TheAddictionIsReal
Nothing that can be done about it now, but for the future you might want to look into getting a smart phone keyboard. I presume that tabbing through the links would work even on a smart phone browser.
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#16I use a third party app to get around this. Makes the mobile experience infinitely better in my opinion.
Any specific app you would recommend?
I would recommend taking a look for yourself. If I search the App Store for “Hacker News” I see no less than a dozen options. Shouldn’t take more than a minute to look at them and evaluate which one would be best for your needs.
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#17They're encouraging you to think like a hacker and fix it yourself with either a user stylesheet or an app.
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#18I use a third party app to get around this. Makes the mobile experience infinitely better in my opinion.
Any specific app you would recommend?
I'm using Harmonic for Android. Not sure if it's available for iOS. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.simon.harm...
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#19I use a third party app to get around this. Makes the mobile experience infinitely better in my opinion.
Hacki is the most featureful HN browsing app I've ever used, it's open source too. It really enhances the HN mobile experience.