I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone experience suck • Hacker News Board

Re: I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone experience suck

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Post by lukeholder » Wed, Aug 21, 2013, 11:01 AM UTC

iaskwhy wrote: post #20

Best mobile HN, by far: http://hn.premii.com/

i agree, it has replaced native HN apps on my iphone.

Re: I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone experience suck

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Post by digitalengineer » Wed, Aug 21, 2013, 11:15 AM UTC

hnha wrote: post #17

digitalengineer wrote: post #7

Use the Mobile Github page: http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/

It's a blank white page in opera mobile whereas the normal hn style works pretty.

Works fine on Mobile Safari. Have not used Opera...

Re: I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone experience suck

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Post by 300bps » Wed, Aug 21, 2013, 11:16 AM UTC

Wilya wrote: post #4

I much prefer the current HN smartphone experience to some stupid thing that displays one comment at a time in a huge font and is missing half the options. It does suck on non-smartphones phones, but nobody cares about that anyway.

My Windows Phone 8 (Lumia 928) shows HN perfectly.

Re: I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone experience suck

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Post by Ives » Wed, Aug 21, 2013, 11:17 AM UTC

iaskwhy wrote: post #20

Best mobile HN, by far: http://hn.premii.com/

Doesn't appear to work on my lumia 800. Just says "Loading..." infinitely.

Re: I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone experience suck

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Post by nailer » Wed, Aug 21, 2013, 11:17 AM UTC

thedrbrian wrote: post #13

Wilya wrote: post #4

I much prefer the current HN smartphone experience to some stupid thing that displays one comment at a time in a huge font and is missing half the options. It does suck on non-smartphones phones, but nobody cares about that anyway.

It looks fine on the iPhone 5 http://imgur.com/i3fEdol No massive text size , more than 5 words per line ,etc

zooms till the image's 3.5 inches

Personally I couldn't read that at all at smartphone size from 1.5 feet away (distance to hand).

Re: I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone experience suck

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Post by dueyfinster » Wed, Aug 21, 2013, 11:22 AM UTC

lukeholder wrote: post #21

iaskwhy wrote: post #20

Best mobile HN, by far: http://hn.premii.com/

i agree, it has replaced native HN apps on my iphone.

agree here too, love the distraction free mode

Re: I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone experience suck

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Post by csbartus » Wed, Aug 21, 2013, 11:23 AM UTC

Hacker News redesigns and mobile apps are popping up almost weekly here at HN .... I'm trying all them out.

Yet still using the original. Being a designer I was always thinking what makes this ugly design so time resistant.

One single answer comes to my mind: the character of its creator.

Re: I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone experience suck

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Post by robotys » Wed, Aug 21, 2013, 11:26 AM UTC

working just fine on Windows Phone 7[1] Internet Explorer. Even better i think. It automatically make the text bigger, thus easier to read within the small screen size.

[1] Nokia Lumia 900

Re: I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone experience suck

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Post by rwg » Wed, Aug 21, 2013, 11:29 AM UTC

thedrbrian wrote: post #13

Wilya wrote: post #4

I much prefer the current HN smartphone experience to some stupid thing that displays one comment at a time in a huge font and is missing half the options. It does suck on non-smartphones phones, but nobody cares about that anyway.

It looks fine on the iPhone 5 http://imgur.com/i3fEdol No massive text size , more than 5 words per line ,etc

The default HN experience isn't so great on Android's browser...

http://i.imgur.com/TEUoGrT.jpg

Re: I am not a css hacker but please HN change your css. smartphone experience suck

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Post by pkorzeniewski » Wed, Aug 21, 2013, 11:39 AM UTC

csbartus wrote: post #27

Hacker News redesigns and mobile apps are popping up almost weekly here at HN .... I'm trying all them out. Yet still using the original. Being a designer I was always thinking what makes this ugly design so time resistant. One single answer comes to my mind: the character of its creator.

I would say it's more a matter of habit, if you've used the original for such a long time you feel so familiar with it that any other way of using HN just seems "unnatural". I too have tried many alternatives, yet still coming back to the original ;)