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As part of the organizational change, I'd love to see a plan to making the Hacker News site work great on mobile.

habith 11y ago
> I'd love to see a plan to making the Hacker News site work great on mobile Seconded. I'd also like to see something implemented to control the contrast on downvoted/dead entries. Either collapse them ala reddit or give me the option to disable the low contrast view.
- dang 11y ago
  We did make one change in this department. If you click on a comment's timestamp to go to its individual page, dead and downvoted comments should no longer be faded out. That's so people who want to consider vouching for a comment will be able to read it. In case anyone is wondering, 'flag' and 'vouch' links don't appear beside comments in threads. You have to go to the comment's individual page (linked from its timestamp) to see them.
  - rory096 11y ago
    An example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10298777 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10298777 Good change, by the way. Don't know how many times I've (probably fruitlessly) commented next to a dead comment to point out that they're unknowingly accidentally shadowbanned.
creullin 11y ago
I agree. The mobile apps for HN are terrible.
- qubitcoder 11y ago
  For iOS HN apps, my current preference is Akepa owing to its features and attention to detail--including comment collapsing, bookmarks, history, Readability integration, and replies (using it now for this comment). The performance is quite snappy as well since it uses native components instead of a being a wrapper.
claar 11y ago
I'd love to see them copy/buy http://hn.premii.com http://hn.premii.com for the mobile experience.
- kyledreger 11y ago
  For reading, I enjoy https://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb https://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb
  - dmix 11y ago
    And the old standard https://ihackernews.com https://ihackernews.com Although HN should have a responsive UI the way Lobster does it: https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/
    - mineshaftgap 11y ago
      Not very many comments on lobsters, good stories but I kind of rely on the comments to choose my reading.
  - paulirish 11y ago
    Same. After using premii and cheeaun for a year each, I prefer the experience in cheeaun's hackerweb.
jobu 11y ago
If we're making feature requests here I'll add mine: Please add the ability to undo/change an upvote or downvote. It's very easy to accidentally vote on something when scrolling on a mobile device.
- PascLeRasc 11y ago
  When does the downvote become available? I'm at 298 with no ability to afaik.
  - dang 11y ago
    At 501. Which always reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606199.
cm2012 11y ago
Anecdote - I love the current HN experience on mobile. Fastest loading site I use.
- DanBC 11y ago
  I love the site on mobile. I'd prefer a bit more separation between up / downvote buttons. I'd prefer the text to be a bit larger, although I accept that some people would hate larger text. Is this the kind of thing that HN could have a setting for? optional style sheets? (Because users can't set their own styles on mobile).
  - zeveb 11y ago
    > Because users can't set their own styles on mobile Stylish works great with Firefox on my phone. Doesn't help you if you're using another browser or stuck with a phone which doesn't let you choose your own browser (do those exist?), of course.
- IgorPartola 11y ago
  Well, you know that larger fonts don't take longer to load, right? :)
brento 11y ago
I'm glad that improvements are being made to community moderation, however as someone that doesn't comment much or read comments that often, improving mobile would be something I would put higher on the priority list.
monochromatic 11y ago
What is there to complain about? It's a website that works fine on mobile and loads fast. It doesn't prevent me from zooming the way some mobile pages to, and it generally just works like it does from the desktop. I wish more sites were like this.
- derekp7 11y ago
  You can zoom in, but then you have to scroll left-right to read anything. At least it is that way with the default Chrome browser on Android. For me, I just use Opera when browsing HN which lets you set auto-reflow when zoomed in (although Opera isn't useful on sites that are designed for mobile, as it doesn't let you override those sites' zoom block).
IgorPartola 11y ago
Yes please. But sadly I have given up hope. This has not been a priority and the one attempt that was made to make things better brought out a pitchfork-armed mob to change it back because the top nav took up two lines gasp. I believe this is because YC is finding that stealth startup that is developing artificial eye balls, so they are prepping their first customers here. Either that, or everyone at YC got the iPad Pro back in 2008 and they are laughing at us with our puny 6 inch screens.
Mz 11y ago
How are you accessing it on mobile? Is this a phone or a tablet? What app are you going through? I am just curious because I use a 7" tablet frequently and have no problem. It used to crash my browser or tablet or something, some years ago. I changed browsers and it stopped happening. PG couldn't find anything on his end.
ymse 11y ago
The Android HN app is a pleasure to use: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.manuelmaly.hn https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.manuelmaly.h... It even supports thread collapsing.
- mschuster91 11y ago
  Indeed it is a nice app but it misses stuff like inline codeblocks and replying :(

> I'd love to see a plan to making the Hacker News site work great on mobile Seconded. I'd also like to see something implemented to control the contrast on downvoted/dead entries. Either collapse them ala reddit or give me the option to disable the low contrast view.

dang 11y ago
We did make one change in this department. If you click on a comment's timestamp to go to its individual page, dead and downvoted comments should no longer be faded out. That's so people who want to consider vouching for a comment will be able to read it. In case anyone is wondering, 'flag' and 'vouch' links don't appear beside comments in threads. You have to go to the comment's individual page (linked from its timestamp) to see them.
- rory096 11y ago
  An example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10298777 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10298777 Good change, by the way. Don't know how many times I've (probably fruitlessly) commented next to a dead comment to point out that they're unknowingly accidentally shadowbanned.

creullin 11y ago

I agree. The mobile apps for HN are terrible.

qubitcoder 11y ago
For iOS HN apps, my current preference is Akepa owing to its features and attention to detail--including comment collapsing, bookmarks, history, Readability integration, and replies (using it now for this comment). The performance is quite snappy as well since it uses native components instead of a being a wrapper.

claar 11y ago

I'd love to see them copy/buy http://hn.premii.com http://hn.premii.com for the mobile experience.

kyledreger 11y ago
For reading, I enjoy https://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb https://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb
- dmix 11y ago
  And the old standard https://ihackernews.com https://ihackernews.com Although HN should have a responsive UI the way Lobster does it: https://lobste.rs/ https://lobste.rs/
  - mineshaftgap 11y ago
    Not very many comments on lobsters, good stories but I kind of rely on the comments to choose my reading.
- paulirish 11y ago
  Same. After using premii and cheeaun for a year each, I prefer the experience in cheeaun's hackerweb.

jobu 11y ago

If we're making feature requests here I'll add mine: Please add the ability to undo/change an upvote or downvote. It's very easy to accidentally vote on something when scrolling on a mobile device.

PascLeRasc 11y ago
When does the downvote become available? I'm at 298 with no ability to afaik.
- dang 11y ago
  At 501. Which always reminds me of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606199 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7606199.

cm2012 11y ago

Anecdote - I love the current HN experience on mobile. Fastest loading site I use.

DanBC 11y ago
I love the site on mobile. I'd prefer a bit more separation between up / downvote buttons. I'd prefer the text to be a bit larger, although I accept that some people would hate larger text. Is this the kind of thing that HN could have a setting for? optional style sheets? (Because users can't set their own styles on mobile).
- zeveb 11y ago
  > Because users can't set their own styles on mobile Stylish works great with Firefox on my phone. Doesn't help you if you're using another browser or stuck with a phone which doesn't let you choose your own browser (do those exist?), of course.
IgorPartola 11y ago
Well, you know that larger fonts don't take longer to load, right? :)

brento 11y ago

I'm glad that improvements are being made to community moderation, however as someone that doesn't comment much or read comments that often, improving mobile would be something I would put higher on the priority list.

monochromatic 11y ago

What is there to complain about? It's a website that works fine on mobile and loads fast. It doesn't prevent me from zooming the way some mobile pages to, and it generally just works like it does from the desktop. I wish more sites were like this.

derekp7 11y ago
You can zoom in, but then you have to scroll left-right to read anything. At least it is that way with the default Chrome browser on Android. For me, I just use Opera when browsing HN which lets you set auto-reflow when zoomed in (although Opera isn't useful on sites that are designed for mobile, as it doesn't let you override those sites' zoom block).

IgorPartola 11y ago

Yes please. But sadly I have given up hope. This has not been a priority and the one attempt that was made to make things better brought out a pitchfork-armed mob to change it back because the top nav took up two lines gasp. I believe this is because YC is finding that stealth startup that is developing artificial eye balls, so they are prepping their first customers here. Either that, or everyone at YC got the iPad Pro back in 2008 and they are laughing at us with our puny 6 inch screens.

Mz 11y ago

How are you accessing it on mobile? Is this a phone or a tablet? What app are you going through? I am just curious because I use a 7" tablet frequently and have no problem. It used to crash my browser or tablet or something, some years ago. I changed browsers and it stopped happening. PG couldn't find anything on his end.

ymse 11y ago

The Android HN app is a pleasure to use: https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.manuelmaly.hn https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=com.manuelmaly.h... It even supports thread collapsing.

mschuster91 11y ago
Indeed it is a nice app but it misses stuff like inline codeblocks and replying :(