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Off-topic, but blogspot links are a constant frustration for me on the phone. It's super easy for my fingers to swipe slightly left/right when scrolling and tri

Off-topic, but blogspot links are a constant frustration for me on the phone. It's super easy for my fingers to swipe slightly left/right when scrolling and triggering blogspot's next/previous post navigation. I can even accidentally end up slightly scrolled horizontally and have no way to see the left side again. As a result I mostly ignore blogspot links. But this seems up my alley (http://akkartik.name/post/readable-bad http://akkartik.name/post/readable-bad). Anybody else run into these issues? Anybody have suggestions or workarounds? Why do technically savvy folks not notice how crappy blogspot has gotten? Edit: PSA for blogspot owners https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/blogger/8hNsCLpEn6U https://productforums.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/blogger/8hN... http://chrisltd.com/blog/2012/03/blogger-mobile-theme http://chrisltd.com/blog/2012/03/blogger-mobile-theme

BinaryIdiot 10y ago
I hadn't realized this was a blogspot thing. I had seen this multiple times and I completely agree. Almost every single time I go to keep scrolling, somehow slightly shift my finger to the right or left and BAM I'm in another article. Very frustrating and pretty counter intuitive for how we're used to the web working.
- jakub_g 10y ago
  Blogspot is one of the most frustrating software out there that I interact with regularly (from HN mostly). Desktop version feels very slow and heavy, mobile version has this moronic feature of swiping to next/prev article, and countless other things that make UX really awkward. Same with Google Groups and some other Google products. It's super weird, they sit on a pile of money, hire thousands of 'best of the best' and can't get some simple things right.
gcr 10y ago
Reader view on iOS makes blogspot, and lots of other articles, quite bearable. (I assume it works?)
- akkartik 10y ago
  Ah, why didn't I think of that?! Thanks! Edit: Firefox on Android seems to eat much of the article in readable mode, while Chrome or Opera on Android seem to have none. So I'm back at square one..

BinaryIdiot 10y ago

I hadn't realized this was a blogspot thing. I had seen this multiple times and I completely agree. Almost every single time I go to keep scrolling, somehow slightly shift my finger to the right or left and BAM I'm in another article. Very frustrating and pretty counter intuitive for how we're used to the web working.

jakub_g 10y ago
Blogspot is one of the most frustrating software out there that I interact with regularly (from HN mostly). Desktop version feels very slow and heavy, mobile version has this moronic feature of swiping to next/prev article, and countless other things that make UX really awkward. Same with Google Groups and some other Google products. It's super weird, they sit on a pile of money, hire thousands of 'best of the best' and can't get some simple things right.

gcr 10y ago

Reader view on iOS makes blogspot, and lots of other articles, quite bearable. (I assume it works?)

akkartik 10y ago
Ah, why didn't I think of that?! Thanks! Edit: Firefox on Android seems to eat much of the article in readable mode, while Chrome or Opera on Android seem to have none. So I'm back at square one..