+1. On a side note: The pure text-based interaction with ChatGPT is one big point for me to prefer it over Google for quite a few searches (this is besides that ChatGPT gives one direct answers).
Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only
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Re: Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only
#192At present, I use "modern for hacknews" chrome plugin. via: https://www.modernhn.com/ It redesigns the web interface of hacknews. In my andriod app, I will use Glider app to read hacknews posts. via: https://github.com/Mosc/Glider . In most cases, I would choose to use pc's browser to read hacknews. Maybe you can try my recommendations above to improve your reading experience.
I use glider daily and i wish it was the defacto/official app for HN
Really appreciate Glider.
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#193Hey OP, there are bookmarketlets that you can save as bookmarks in your mobile phone browser to increase or decrease zoom size on any webpage or website. I don’t use them because I’m not at the age of using glasses or reading glasses for anything but they may be useful to you.
Re: Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only
#194Hey OP, there are bookmarketlets that you can save as bookmarks in your mobile phone browser to increase or decrease zoom size on any webpage or website. I don’t use them because I’m not at the age of using glasses or reading glasses for anything but they may be useful to you.
Save this bookmarketlet as “[+] increase font size”.
javascript:var%20p=document.getElementsByTagName('*');for(i=0;i%3Cp.length;i++)%7Bif(p%5Bi%5D.style.fontSize)%7Bvar%20s=parseInt(p%5Bi%5D.style.fontSize.replace(%22px%22,%22%22));%7Delse%7Bvar%20s=12;%7Ds+=2;p%5Bi%5D.style.fontSize=s+%22px%22%7DRe: Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only
#195Hey OP, there are bookmarketlets that you can save as bookmarks in your mobile phone browser to increase or decrease zoom size on any webpage or website. I don’t use them because I’m not at the age of using glasses or reading glasses for anything but they may be useful to you.
Save this bookmarketlet as “[-] decrease font size”:
javascript:var%20p=document.getElementsByTagName('*');for(i=0;i%3Cp.length;i++)%7Bif(p%5Bi%5D.style.fontSize)%7Bvar%20s=parseInt(p%5Bi%5D.style.fontSize.replace(%22px%22,%22%22));%7Delse%7Bvar%20s=12;%7Ds-=2;p%5Bi%5D.style.fontSize=s+%22px%22%7DRe: Tell HN: Thank you for being fast, almost ad-free and text-only
#196Hot take: I think the lack of mobile support is a feature, not a bug. Mobile interfaces are responsible for much of the noise of mainstream social media, they encourage short form content creation because the interface is too simplistic and typing on a tiny touchscreen keyboard is unpleasant and error-prone. By making the only viable interface a desktop interface you put up an additional barrier to that type of noise…
Agreed. Anything that has a mobile user base is pretty awful.
See: Twitter, Reddit, TikTok, FB
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#197I've been working on my own frontend for hacker news for a bit cause I wanted it look a certain way (basically larger fonts, easy on the eyes). You can check it out here to find any inspiration, https://hn.aaakash.xyz
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#198Earlier quoted context omitted.
I’m reading this on a phone, right now, and it’s perfectly usable.
OK now try and upvote this comment without missing the arrow. If you do, you have a lot more dexerity than I do at least. Its usable but certain elements are a little too small where it makes me misclick.
I zoom to upvote
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#199I feel like there's a systemic issue in modern software that HN is immune to. After an initial success, companies will hire tons of project managers and engineers to build new features and continue their growth. The result is a corporate paperclip optimizer. The problem is that these features won't get used and nobody gets promoted if they're not pushed to the front of UI so you end up with cluttered interfaces loade…
I'll be a counterpoint to Reddit argument. I started out using the new reddit and I find it more usable than old.reddit site.
Also old.reddit has very wide text lengths which makes reading a chore compared to new one where the character limit per line is conservative.
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#200Earlier quoted context omitted.
But ... these job postings are difficult to discern from other posts. At least Google puts "Ad" in front of ads ...
There are several userscripts to block those. https://github.com/brownie-in-motion/hn-adblock >, discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31597486 > Another: https://gist.github.com/pxeger/4aed4baaa87028a2ecc6441a84a1f... > (I've used neither.) I've briefly looked into managing these through CSS alone. Not obviously that I can tell, though the text of job listings should match the pattern: (YC ) Is Hiring I th…
If you are using ublock, you can use these filters
news.ycombinator.com##.athing:not(:has(.votelinks))
news.ycombinator.com##.athing:not(:has(.votelinks)) + tr
news.ycombinator.com##.athing:not(:has(.votelinks)) + tr + tr