Please get rid of the white padding on the sides. Takes up valuable area and squeezes the center content too much. Particularly bad in landscape.
Ask HN: Mobile site
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#62Were 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.
Agreed - was just about to post this. The whole point of the iPad, IMHO, is to give a "portable desktop" browser experience. I can't stand when sites do the awkward in-between tablet version. Looks worse and less usable. I'm ok with the idea of responsive design, but let's stick with desktop and phone as the two versions.
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#63Looks like only the home page is responsive now. Viewing this thread right now on a Samsung Galaxy S4 and the font is too small.
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#64I posted about this three times last night before going to sleep, feeling sure that the info would get into circulation. Apparently not! Will explain shortly.
Edit: Here's the story. We occasionally hear from users who say that all of HN's problems on mobile could be fixed by adding one line of markup:
Unfortunately, what happened is what I feared most: total disagreement. Since it was far from a clear win, we've rolled back to the status quo ante. I'm sorry to disappoint those of you who felt it to be an improvement, but you shouldn't have to wait too much longer.
Why not keep it and improve on its problems, or at least do a poll about it? Because it was at best a stopgap until we can release the real solution we're working on, which involves totally different markup. If the stopgap worked well for most people, it would be worth keeping in the interim. But a stopgap that doesn't actually stop the gap will create confusion. I feel like it's our duty to be conservative here until we have something that actually works. It's a high priority, and it's coming.
1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7985687, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7330107, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6253835, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6253403, and probably others.
2. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9205798, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9205893, and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9205858.
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#65Mh, on my phone it is as it has always been (which is not good on small screen operated with fingers). How do I see the mobile version?
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#66Screw all the iphone users. HN is now usable on firefox/Android. Don't change it back because Safari has rendering bugs.
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#67I've been using http://hn.premii.com with great success. Super slick UI and runs great as a full screen Chrome app. Missing features are adding comments and upvotes, but it provides direct link to real HN comments page where you can do that instead. Their Android app is good too, but web client feels faster on my phone.
Feels very heavy on Firefox in Android.
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#68Have I stumbled into some parallel universe? Let me get this straight: HN, a haven for hackers, developers, entrepreneurs, and the big wigs of the valley cannot get a webmaster to spend a day on making some really basic changes to the CSS and HTML to make the site responsive on mobile, which is probably the way lots of people read it. When a half hearted attempt is finally made, people complain and demand it be returned to the abominable state it previously was because the experience is somehow worse on mobile? What the hell is going on?! How is the experience worse? How is it that HN cannot get help with this? There have been so many volunteers saying "just let me fix it", yet it is a resource problem? Or is this some type of natural selection for hackers who do not own mobile devices or have strong eye? This is so backwards I feel like a teenage girl in that I cannot even.
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#69I posted about this three times last night before going to sleep, feeling sure that the info would get into circulation. Apparently not! Will explain shortly. Edit: Here's the story. We occasionally hear from users who say that all of HN's problems on mobile could be fixed by adding one line of markup: We tried it several times and found it didn't work [1]. Last night, we tried again. It looked better than before, so…
Honest question: don't you have the ability to see what it looks like for yourself or is the only way to test a change like this is to release it to production and measure the numbers of angry comments? Whether a small vocal minority that loves tiny text on small screens agrees or disagrees, the change was a strict improvement over the desktop on mobile version. Is this what YC advises its companies to do? Change nothing as to not piss anyone off, no matter how much damage that causes to the majority of the users? I find that software people are terrified of any change. Move a button and they scream. That does not mean that once something is developed it must stay that way. dang, do you really believe there won't be a public outcry when the new markup is released? Will you roll it back then because someone complained?
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#70I 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