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This seems like an “Ask dang”, and may be better served by an email to hn@ycombinator.com. I personally would rather see other usability improvements for touch

This seems like an “Ask dang”, and may be better served by an email to hn@ycombinator.com. I personally would rather see other usability improvements for touch devices on the size and positioning of the voting buttons and better spacing between the various links to a user’s profile, date and time of submission and others (like hide, past, favorite, discuss, etc.). HN has quite an unsatisfactory UX for touch devices (and arguably even on a mouse pointer interface). I also see these as accessibility issues.

conductr 6y ago
It’s driving me a little nuts last couple months on iPhone 12 pro. The paragraphs frequently stretch wide requiring horizontal scroll. Historically I could double tap to set width/zoom level to child comment width, doing that results in all kinds of weirdness now. I’ve not inspected the CSS but seems like it’s forcing my device to iPad width or something.
- stevetodd 6y ago
  Sounds like the Chrome bug in the latest iOS release. Tap the location bar and then hit cancel to correct the zoom. Hopefully it’s fixed in the next release.
  - conductr 6y ago
    That does fix it. Thanks. I had been doing full refresh and didn’t realize that would work. I played with it a bit more. Seems to be portrait to landscape and back to portrait issue. As in, stays landscape one in landscape
jml7c5 6y ago
A brief, related rant: Why the heck do mobile browsers not implement any sort of full page zoom or viewport resizing? (Perhaps better called "page scaling"; it's what desktop browsers do when you press control-plus/control-minus.) My choice is either to increase the browser's text scaling and deal with tiny UI elements (e.g., upvote/downvote buttons on HN), or pinch-zoom and pan around. Both are awful. All the machinery for full-page zoom ("page scaling") is already in the browser! Just let me use it!
- reshlo 6y ago
  iOS Safari does have this feature, in the top row of settings when you tap the “AA” button in the URL bar. You can tap the larger A on the right to make UI elements larger. HN works well at 125%.
  - jonathanedwards 6y ago
    How did I miss this? Thank you!
  - jml7c5 6y ago
    Does this affect images etc as well? I use an Android phone, so unfortunately can't play with it.
    - reshlo 6y ago
      Yes, it does.

conductr 6y ago

It’s driving me a little nuts last couple months on iPhone 12 pro. The paragraphs frequently stretch wide requiring horizontal scroll. Historically I could double tap to set width/zoom level to child comment width, doing that results in all kinds of weirdness now. I’ve not inspected the CSS but seems like it’s forcing my device to iPad width or something.

stevetodd 6y ago
Sounds like the Chrome bug in the latest iOS release. Tap the location bar and then hit cancel to correct the zoom. Hopefully it’s fixed in the next release.
- conductr 6y ago
  That does fix it. Thanks. I had been doing full refresh and didn’t realize that would work. I played with it a bit more. Seems to be portrait to landscape and back to portrait issue. As in, stays landscape one in landscape

jml7c5 6y ago

A brief, related rant: Why the heck do mobile browsers not implement any sort of full page zoom or viewport resizing? (Perhaps better called "page scaling"; it's what desktop browsers do when you press control-plus/control-minus.) My choice is either to increase the browser's text scaling and deal with tiny UI elements (e.g., upvote/downvote buttons on HN), or pinch-zoom and pan around. Both are awful. All the machinery for full-page zoom ("page scaling") is already in the browser! Just let me use it!

reshlo 6y ago
iOS Safari does have this feature, in the top row of settings when you tap the “AA” button in the URL bar. You can tap the larger A on the right to make UI elements larger. HN works well at 125%.
- jonathanedwards 6y ago
  How did I miss this? Thank you!
- jml7c5 6y ago
  Does this affect images etc as well? I use an Android phone, so unfortunately can't play with it.
  - reshlo 6y ago
    Yes, it does.