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Ask HN: Why does HN require tiny baby fingers to operate on a phone?

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Re: Ask HN: Why does HN require tiny baby fingers to operate on a phone?

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> Why not simply inject a tiny bit of client side CSS and fix it yourself? True to the hacker spirit. Because, as the OP states, i'm on a phone.

hopefully someone can create a script for phones since Firefox Nightly in Android got Tampermonkey add on

Tampermonkey is available in the stable Firefox app too, btw.

Though I wish Stylus supported Firefox mobile, it's better for CSS as it only does CSS.

Re: Ask HN: Why does HN require tiny baby fingers to operate on a phone?

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Why not simply inject a tiny bit of client side CSS and fix it yourself? True to the hacker spirit.

> Why not simply inject a tiny bit of client side CSS and fix it yourself? True to the hacker spirit. Because, as the OP states, i'm on a phone.

What a sad state of affairs that this is a successful counter argument.

There no technical reason that pocket computers should be incapable of applying user styles. Alas, we allowed the advent of a new technology ratchet tighter the grasp of commercial interests over society.

Re: Ask HN: Why does HN require tiny baby fingers to operate on a phone?

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post #63
post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Why not simply inject a tiny bit of client side CSS and fix it yourself? True to the hacker spirit. Because, as the OP states, i'm on a phone.

What a sad state of affairs that this is a successful counter argument. There no technical reason that pocket computers should be incapable of applying user styles. Alas, we allowed the advent of a new technology ratchet tighter the grasp of commercial interests over society.

Likewise, what a sad state of affairs that mobile-device users should have to add custom CSS to a given page to use it properly.

Re: Ask HN: Why does HN require tiny baby fingers to operate on a phone?

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post #63

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What a sad state of affairs that this is a successful counter argument. There no technical reason that pocket computers should be incapable of applying user styles. Alas, we allowed the advent of a new technology ratchet tighter the grasp of commercial interests over society.

Likewise, what a sad state of affairs that mobile-device users should have to add custom CSS to a given page to use it properly.

Indeed, imagine a world in which something much closer to bare, structured content was delivered and the user agent decided how to present it.

Re: Ask HN: Why does HN require tiny baby fingers to operate on a phone?

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is this a serious answer or trolling? how would web experience on mobile be if i have to manually zoom everything all of the time? fact is NH on mobile web is not optimized for unknown reasons. its not a big challenge to do it either. I have a userscript that makes everything bigger and removes junk out.

Is there any evidence that discourse here would be improved by encouraging mobile users to slam out mobile-sized comments?

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Re: Ask HN: Why does HN require tiny baby fingers to operate on a phone?

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HN is not backed by a large organization/company and does not have money to employ a few people to redesign the site and make some long desired and badly needed improvements. /s

While you’re complaining about link sizes, did you notice how tiny and close the voting buttons are and how bad the general accessibility of HN is?

In a way, I think all this bad design prevents people from using it too much…and that may actually be a good thing.

If this answer seemed pointless, that’s because nobody can answer this question properly on an Ask HN post. Emailing hn@ycombinator.com may probably get a more appropriate answer.

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