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Hacker News has native mobile view
- AndyKelley 13y agoThis is a joke right? I just curled and diffed / and /?native_mobile and the result was empty.
- furyofantares 13y agoThe query param in the submission is probably just to get around the duplicate submission rule, I think it uses user agent to determine which page to serve
- redthrowaway 13y ago>I think it uses user agent to determine which page to serve If it does then it's broken. Typing the full url manually into my address bar resulted in the first time I've ever seen that version of the site, on Android or iOS.
- digitalmaster 13y agolook like a joke to me
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- shortlived 13y agoHeader needs work, but otherwise I love it.
- 8ig8 13y agoI just noticed it when checking on my iphone. That's all I know. Couldn't wait to share the news.
- hemancuso 13y agoI suspect the number of stories that get flagged is about to decline dramatically.
- dshibarshin 13y agoWhy the margins on an iphone 5?
- lnanek2 13y agoSeems pretty terrible. It has big huge white bars on the sides squishing the content to be nearly unreadable. I can't even manage to hit the arrows instead of the links as well.
- dclowd9901 13y agoTwo words: Table markup?
- mrb 13y agoAgreed. Wasting margin space on an already tiny screen is ridiculous.
- okso 13y agoDoes the job well for the home page ! But comments are still as hard to read through.
- geerlingguy 13y agoSame here. The home page works great now, but comment pages are as difficult to read on phone as ever. iPad looks a little more zoomed in, but not too aggressively so.
- timthorn 13y agoIs there a way of choosing the regular view for a mobile device? Windows Phone rendered the old home page very well, but now each story takes up a lot more space and it's no longer possible to take in a large number of stories without a lot of scrolling.
- theg2 13y agoYea, I'm a big fan of pinch and zoom and the new format on WP8 is worse.
- pudquick 13y agoCompletely agree on this! I went scrolling for a 'Desktop view' link at the top/bottom, or somewhere in my settings that would flip it back, but I'm unable to find it. I actually relied on the desktop view on my iOS device when any of the other third-party HN mobile views weren't quite getting me what I needed. Loss of this view (without having to rely on a third-party App Store app that allows overriding the UserAgent) is rather saddening.
- snowwrestler 13y agoWorks great for me so far.
- IanChiles 13y agoThis is pretty cool, but how did you find this?
- cheald 13y agoThe size of the comment box needs to be reduced. Right now, it's stretching out the comments pages. Native: https://www.dropbox.com/s/tni84vod5giq9ky/Screenshot_2013-08-21-16-24-39.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/tni84vod5giq9ky/Screenshot_2013-08... Eliminated the 85% max width and reduced the comments box to 40 cols, and set padding: 0 on <body>: https://www.dropbox.com/s/047b5zkheguk8lz/2013-08-21%2016.27.45.png https://www.dropbox.com/s/047b5zkheguk8lz/2013-08-21%2016.27... Just remove the hardcoded 85% width and 60 cols and toss this into the CSS: form textarea { width: 500px; } body > center > table { width: 85%; } @media(max-device-width: 1024px) { form textarea { width: 80%; } body { padding: 0; } body > center > table { width: 100%; } }
- oliveratkinson 13y agoI think its OK but needs some more design work - why not make a competition? surely theres enough people here to waste a few hours putting together a nice design
- jack-r-abbit 13y agoBoth of those look identical on my phone. And they both look identical on my PC. The only difference I see is that both versions on my phone are missing the [flag] option.
- solox3 13y agoFlag is available when you are logged in. Like you said, there appears to be no difference whatsoever between the two versions.
- jack-r-abbit 13y agodoh! I should have remembered that. So they are totally the same on PC and phone for me.
- barbs 13y agoIt's better than it was, but for viewing HN on my Android phone I use this app: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksoftware.hackernews https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.airlocksof...
- dave84 13y agoI've seen this pop up a few times over the last few weeks. I just thought Safari was bugging out because I'd refresh and it'd be gone again. Hope it sticks around.
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- kogir 13y agoAll I did is add the following: <meta name="viewport" content="width = device-width"> I think it looks worse on my iPhone 5 and HTC One, and will probably back out the change. At least now I've proven it's not that simple.
- jack-r-abbit 13y agoFWIW, I see no difference on my Moto Photon... and it looks pretty much exactly the same (for better or worse) as it does in Chrome on Windows 7.
- meerita 13y agoI think this is a major misunderstanding.
- lux 13y agoI've seen several offers of mobile-optimized CSS for this site over the past while, yet this feels like a half-done job. On my iPhone 5 the margins are all off, the vote icons are still impossibly small, and the header is a mess. It looks like this isn't much more than an added viewport meta tag. It is still an improvement, but it could be much better. I know the YC crew are busy folks, but you could throw a few bucks to the poster with the best mobile CSS and I'm sure people would be up for the challenge.
- aneth5 13y agoWhat's "native" about this mobile view? And oh dear, does this look terrible on an iPhone 4 screen.
- Lifebot 13y agoPG should just buy the design from this guy (or hire him): http://hn.premii.com/ http://hn.premii.com/ Previously discussed: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6178534 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6178534
- bitserf 13y agoWorks even better when you pin that to the home screen as a faux app.
- pudquick 13y ago... unless it's iOS 6 and you try to use the 'open in a new window' links (javascript window.open with a target of _blank) for the articles. When pinned as a Web Clip, the site opens up fullscreen and addressbar-less and without tabs / as a single window. The attempts to 'open in a new window' just replace the HN mobile view altogether with the article and then strand you there without gestures or controls to move Back.
- jevinskie 13y agoHow do you return to the HN UI after clicking a story when there isn't any browser chrome / back button? That is the only downside that I have seen from adding it to the home screen.
- bmj 13y agoI simply hit the home button, then restart the Web Clip.
- hayksaakian 13y agoWas it just disabled?
- zacharydenton 13y agoHere's another HN mobile web app: http://hn.meteor.com/ http://hn.meteor.com/
- quail 13y agoWow. Thanks for the link. I love this mobile version.
- sirkneeland 13y agoThis may come as a bit of a shock, but it doesn't seem to be working in IE.
- cabacon 13y agoI just wanted to say "Thanks!" for the mobile view. I have found HN to be difficult to read on my ipod touch, and I'm glad you're working on fixing it up. I have nothing to say about the million-and-one suggestions about how it might be EVEN BETTER than what you've chosen to try for now, but I'm glad it's getting some attention.