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Why is everyone so focused on shoving HN into an app when the site could just be made mobile friendly? There's no reason to go crazy making another app to manag
by Fauntleroy 13y ago
Why is everyone so focused on shoving HN into an app when the site could just be made mobile friendly? There's no reason to go crazy making another app to manage when a few lines of CSS (and maybe a couple markup changes) would suffice.
- krapp 13y agoThey don't seem particularly willing or eager to make changes to the frontend. I don't know if that's because it's difficult to do in Arc or because pg doesn't want to risk breaking the site's mojo with some minor UI tweak that has unintended consequences or what. People have definitely complained about it from time to time.
- dlhavema 13y agoi'm not sure how feasible it is, but a nice app to cache the current state of the top 30 posts and the discussions below them would be great for an android app. that way you could do offline reading on an airplane or other non-network/data-constrained area.
- veeti 13y agoA well-built native app will always be much better and smoother to use than a clumsy mobile site.
- sehr 13y agoNot if the "mobile site" is the same as the regular site and well made.