4 ms·

Almost 10% of us are mobile. On a small screen with slower bandwidth HN is a lot nicer than /. Almost annoying that even though the site is so efficient alrea

by icefox 15y ago

Almost 10% of us are mobile. On a small screen with slower bandwidth HN is a lot nicer than /. Almost annoying that even though the site is so efficient already the site icon and the logo aren't the same url or that the arrows are not unicode arrows or just one image rotates or ... :)

wgx 15y ago
Agree about "Y", I often tap it and end up at YC when expecting HN.
- icefox 15y ago
  Given that it does go to YC it makes even more sense to have it be the YC site icon so if the YC guys ever change that logo/icon HN would automatically get it. Then again a lot of mobile browser don't fetch the site icon so couldn't it just be a 'Y' in an orange box with no icon fetching at all?
  - icefox 15y ago
    Looking at the code one way to speed up the total site load time would be to have the main page be static and completely cachable. onload have it fetch a list of articles and populate the main page. This way it would fetch the articles and images all at the same time v.s generating the main page, and then fetching the resources.
- 0x12 15y ago
  Use the 'N' instead. That seems to work just fine.
  - DiabloD3 15y ago
    I'm not a mobile user and I have HN loaded as a Firefox app tab. Go figure.
redthrowaway 15y ago
I don't know if I can agree with you about bandwidth. HN has been really, really slow lately. It's a constant and long-lived malaise. Slashdot loads much quicker.
- william42 15y ago
  I think he means that the design of the site is better if you have a not-so-good connection, as HN is much lighter in the HTML department.
  - Natsu 15y ago
    This. HN loads a lot faster than Slashdot if you're ever on a slow connection.
lucianof 15y ago
On a related note: http://ihackernews.com/ http://ihackernews.com/ offers a nice UI for mobile.