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It's unreadable on my phone. The font is microscopic, like 0.5pt. Dark mode is awful. Light grey on black makes it even worse. Firefox Reader mode is disabled.
by bxparks 2y ago
It's unreadable on my phone. The font is microscopic, like 0.5pt. Dark mode is awful. Light grey on black makes it even worse. Firefox Reader mode is disabled. The pop up keyboard takes up half the screen and obscures most of the content. And forcing a commandline interface on a phone user seems truly sadistic.
- jakelazaroff 2y agoWhat do you think this comment achieves other than making someone feel bad about something they’re proud of?
- bxparks 2y agoSure, I should have been more tactful. (I was still groggy in bed while reading the post on my phone, and it's difficult to type lengthy diplomatic sentences with long words on a phone keyboard.) The commenter seemed to have intended for the website to reach a wide audience: "will work on anything.. from IE 6.0 or FF 2.0 upward". But it kinda fails to meet that goal.
- Borg3 2y agoWell, more retro focused audience.. But also point is, you can do decent webpage that is not bloated and work on older/retro platforms. Its sad what web become, if you do not run latest stuff from FAANG companies, you are pretty much excluded.
- Borg3 2y agoNo worries, I do NOT feel bad about it. My home page is not for general consumption like smartphone browsers. Im actually very supprised that such a website like Hackers News are being read on smartphones. Damn, world changed a lot.
- bxparks 2y agoIronically HN is one of the few websites that works well on my phone, because it uses so little of modern web technologies. I use a 7-year old smartphone, it's painful or impossible to read many websites. I have to use old.reddit.com instead of www.reddit.com. Twitter stopped working on my phone a few years ago, good riddance. But my phone is with me everywhere, my laptops are not. So HN is one of the permanent tabs on the phone.