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Re: Hacker News has native mobile view

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post #6

Does the job well for the home page ! But comments are still as hard to read through.

Same here. The home page works great now, but comment pages are as difficult to read on phone as ever.

iPad looks a little more zoomed in, but not too aggressively so.

Re: Hacker News has native mobile view

#24

This is a joke right? I just curled and diffed / and /?native_mobile and the result was empty.

The query param in the submission is probably just to get around the duplicate submission rule, I think it uses user agent to determine which page to serve

Re: Hacker News has native mobile view

#27
post #5

Seems pretty terrible. It has big huge white bars on the sides squishing the content to be nearly unreadable. I can't even manage to hit the arrows instead of the links as well.

Agreed. Wasting margin space on an already tiny screen is ridiculous.

Re: Hacker News has native mobile view

#28

This is a joke right? I just curled and diffed / and /?native_mobile and the result was empty.

The query param in the submission is probably just to get around the duplicate submission rule, I think it uses user agent to determine which page to serve

>I think it uses user agent to determine which page to serve

If it does then it's broken. Typing the full url manually into my address bar resulted in the first time I've ever seen that version of the site, on Android or iOS.

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