Google to Hacker News: Not Mobile-Friendly

Even the HN app is pretty piss-poor... (and yeah, I'm not looking to get Y Combinator's funding)

This is a great example of why mobile browsers suck. It is the job of the mobile browser to be able to fix these problems automatically, to resize and reflow text so that it displays properly on the device.

I didn't think that was ever in doubt, was it? HN has always been difficult to use on mobile devices due to all the fixed dimensions forcing the page to render at an unsuitable size.

There's great mobile choices like: http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/

Two bookmarks for different browsers, no big trouble. I actually like the old school table based layout of HN. One of the things that stay the same. And it works great with Vimium^_^

^this.

And: It pisses me off to no end that Google is in the position to decide how a site has to look like on $device.

They announce that you will get a worse SERP if your site doesn't do X and everyone scrambles to please mighty G.

If they decide that every site has to have a yellow background, starting next week, what will you do? Give in?