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Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#51

Post by fugyk » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 3:45 PM UTC

For this reasons I have made pinch.js (https://github.com/fugyk/pinchjs). It enables desktop like zooming in mobile.

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#52

Post by fa » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 3:53 PM UTC

Looks fabulous.

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#53

Post by xasos » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 3:55 PM UTC

On Chrome, you can do Menu -> Request Desktop Version

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#54

Post by milankragujevic » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 4:01 PM UTC

Looks fine on Opera on Samsung. At least that's what I would call fine. http://milankragujevic.com/uploads/Screenshot_2015-03-15-16-...

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#55

Post by rajyaswanth » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 4:02 PM UTC

I use this app on android,not sure about iphone app,its a decent one anomg the lot.pretty much satisfied with it. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.premii.hn

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#56

Post by hoppi » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 4:02 PM UTC

addedlovely wrote: post #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?

Perhaps when the orientation of the phone is upside down it can automatically rotate it for you.

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#57

Post by IgorPartola » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 4:04 PM UTC

jackgavigan wrote: post #39

tambourine_man wrote: post #34

Yes, it's terrible on the 4s. The menu doesn't fit the viewport and gets jammed if your username is more than a few characters long (or you have many karma points) You still need to zoom to hit the up/down arrows, so not much is gained.

Looks ++ungood on the 5s too: https://twitter.com/jackgavigan/status/577121192664006657 The menu even wraps on the iPad in landscape orientation: http://i.imgur.com/4ghJIufh.jpg

Are you here to read the menu? I spent a huge amount of hours reading comments on HN on mobile. In fact it is the only site that does not work on mobile that I don't refuse to visit. So while I don't understand why it took HN nearly 7 years to become slightly more mobile friendly, I will take any improvement to its readability.

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#58

Post by stesch » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 4:16 PM UTC

Were there any recent changes? Site looks a bit big on the iPad now. :-(

I don't really want to see any mobile version on my iPad.

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#59

Post by evo_9 » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 4:16 PM UTC

The header bar is pretty bad on iPhone5; needs to be totally reworked if you are going to roll your own mobile like this.

Why not just use Bootstrap?

Re: Ask HN: Mobile site

#60

Post by bhauer » Sun, Mar 15, 2015, 4:16 PM UTC

Lumia 930 here and I'd vote for reverting to the desktop site.

The new front-page zoom is so pronounced that only seven items are displayed simultaneously (previously around 20 to 25). It is obviously easier to click on article links, but not notably easier to click on comment links or the voting arrows.

The comments page is the real problem. Where I used to see the whole width of the comments page and was able to read without adjustment, the page shows the left half of comments initially and I must zoom out every time.