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Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#41

http://i.imgur.com/qr6MAwK.jpg This is absolutely awful, how do I fix this? Edit: I guess that isn't so awful, but before you could see maybe 20% of the links and zoom in as needed. Now it's forcibly zoomed in so much you can only see one link and everything is squashed together.

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Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

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The new version looks much better to me on iPhone 6. No longer do I have to zoom in or use landscape mode to read the titles.

Up and down arrows should be more separated. Ideally up-down should be undoable, I know it's harder to do.

The upvote / downvote buttons have been "wontfix" for years now. :-(

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#43
Perhaps HN mods could have a poll on the different changes? I like big fonts; I like the bigger buttons; I'm less keen on the big margins but I don't particularly care about them.

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

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No, I vastly prefer the mobile site on my phone.

Please, on #hnmain: width: 100%; // Fixes white borders (browser default table width is normally something like 85%) max-width: 750px; // Keeps columns from getting overly wide on desktop

I usually specify my max-widths in em (empirically found the sweet spot at about 40-60em).

I do it because I think it maps better to text widths, which is what you ultimately want to prevent getting overly wide. It also handles different font sizes fine, making the site still accessible for people with big system-wide fonts.

I'd like to know, is there a downside to em or a reason to use px instead?

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#45
Yesterday version was better on my Galaxy S2 with Opera (blink engine). The new one has left and right margins that reduce the area available for text. That's much visible on the home page. The comments pages are maybe the same but I've got the feeling that text is smaller because I don't remember having to tap so often to read.

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#47
Could still be much better, but looking forward to not accidentally fat fingering the comments link all the time.

I'd be happy to help improve, even working within the constraints of not changing any of the underlying markup. Feel free to message me.

Also what's with the '.rotate180' CSS class in the stylesheet, as much as I love reading upside down, I can't see why thats needed?

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#49
No! Don't, please! It's sooooo much better on my phone now. I used to have to zoom in and put and scroll all over. Text is wrapping now, so maybe some aesthetics are lost, but usability is 100% better.

Also, this thread is going to get voted way up because the title just says HN: Mobile Site. But not necessarily because the op doesn't like it.

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