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Re: Please add this 1 line, make HN mobile friendly

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Post by dblarons »

bennyg wrote: post #25
huhtenberg wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

One of those crammed to the brim with "in-app analytics" and other goodness? Certainly, I'll take two of those.

Or use mine, zero analytics code at all, and stays out of your way when you're reading/contributing to HN: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/news-yc/id592893508?mt=8 Oh yeah, and it's entirely open sourced, including my libHN library for interacting with HN in your own app you make: https://github.com/bennyguitar/News-YC---iPhone https://github.com/bennyguitar/libHN

Thanks for sharing. Just downloaded and am using it right now. Just the fact that I can comment once again is a huge improvement over my last daily. I was really beginning to miss my Android and its version of HN.

Re: Please add this 1 line, make HN mobile friendly

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Post by TheBiv »

I think we are all looking at the amount of work that would need to go into this, and not looking at the simple fact that maybe PG doesn't want to manage a mobile site.

If you don't understand what I mean by "manage", then consider yourself lucky as you have not worked in the digital agency world.

Re: Please add this 1 line, make HN mobile friendly

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Post by DanBC »

I am not sure what this is meant to address. The worst thing for mobile users is the teeny tiny voting buttons. I believe that votes are important and are not used enough and part of the reason is fear of accidental downvote.

The other thing that could be fixed is when someone puts a very long unbroken string in a comment without putting it in a code block. This makes the page very wide, and creates an unpleasant experience.

Re: Please add this 1 line, make HN mobile friendly

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Post by jonalmeida »

nrbafna wrote: post #17

I saw a comment on HN sometime back and can't seem to find it now, but thought it had some merit. The gist of it was that enabling posts from mobile might lead to lower content quality as typing on phones is tougher and we tend to focus on a quick reply rather than a thought out discussion. I personally use http://hn.premii.com on mobile & it has a good reading experience.

I used to use hn.premii.com since sharing articles from there shares the hn.premii.com link which seems to steal the page view from the authors post - I may be wrong though.

I use the HN Enchancement Suite chrome extension[1] now instead on my desktop and cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb on my mobile.

[1]: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/bappiabcodbpphnojd...

Re: Please add this 1 line, make HN mobile friendly

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Post by jackmoore »

Udo wrote: post #29
nailer wrote: post #14

HN needs more than that - enabling it: http://imgur.com/9fetcE9 Throw the template and CSS, and some sample data on GitHub. HN'd have a working version in 24 hours.

What's that emulation plugin you're using there?

Chrome's stock developer tools.

Re: Please add this 1 line, make HN mobile friendly

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Post by Udo »

jackmoore wrote: post #35
Udo wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What's that emulation plugin you're using there?

Chrome's stock developer tools.

You're right, I never saw it's in there. Sometimes you use a piece of software a lot and yet it's still possible overlook obvious features, I guess :)

Re: Please add this 1 line, make HN mobile friendly

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Post by Bahamut »

kogir wrote: post #21

I tried this for a few hours some time ago. It made the site less usable on most Android and iPhone devices with normal smartphone screen sizes. Text in a number of places ran together and comments shrunk to one character per line a few replies down. So it's not that simple. Real changes to make the site truly responsive are larger and I can't promise they'll come soon.

It's already pretty bad, at least on Android - I have a hard time editing my text when there is a typo somewhere due to the bottom of the text field expanding and including the "reply" button, so I can't select the last line with my fingers.

Re: Please add this 1 line, make HN mobile friendly

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Post by emiljbs »

DanBC wrote: post #33

I am not sure what this is meant to address. The worst thing for mobile users is the teeny tiny voting buttons. I believe that votes are important and are not used enough and part of the reason is fear of accidental downvote. The other thing that could be fixed is when someone puts a very long unbroken string in a comment without putting it in a code block. This makes the page very wide, and creates an unpleasant exp…

I have 157 karma and I can't downvote anything. How exactly do you downvote on HN? I've never seen anyone explain that (and I can't really see it in the settings either).
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