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What’s mainly annoying is how this has broken HN layout. There’s some CSS for that.
by dmje 9mo ago
What’s mainly annoying is how this has broken HN layout. There’s some CSS for that.
- red_Seashell_32 9mo ago`word-break: break-all;` would solve that.
- culi 9mo ago"solve" is a strong word. The rest of HN would basically be unreadable
- blauditore 9mo agoSeems okay on mobile, how does it look for you?
- Y-bar 9mo agoEspecially not working on mobile because the long word pushes for wider column and therefore a more zoomed out view.
- Etheryte 9mo agoJfyi the title has been edited now, it was the actual word previously which was not broken and just made the page super wide on mobile.
- omnicognate 9mo agoIt was fine on my iOS Safari with a small screen. It automatically hyphenated it, differently depending on orientation. Presumably not on other browsers, though, as lots of people were complaining.
- Y-bar 9mo agoSafari on iOS 26.2 did not hyphenate it for me. I bet it has something to do with which languages are installed.
- dmje 9mo agoTa!
- whiteboardr 9mo agoIt will go down in HN-history as the one exception, where it was ok to not use the page title verbatim.
- anon_cow1111 9mo agoI read the article and was disappointed that the full "word" got cut off, but I know that somewhere, there's a German out there who will post something even longer.
- larusso 9mo agoI’m German and think the idea to compound words into one should not really count as the longest / a long word. I mean yes it is but also it isn’t. Like: “ Grundstücksverkehrsgenehmigungszuständigkeitsübertragungsverordnung” In the end it’s just slapping words together and count it as one.
- dkga 9mo agoAgree