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I'd recommend ihackernews.com for browsing HN on mobile (not my website). I use it daily, and it's much better than the completely non-responsive HN site. I'd
by squeaky-clean 12y ago
I'd recommend ihackernews.com for browsing HN on mobile (not my website). I use it daily, and it's much better than the completely non-responsive HN site.
I'd like to join you on this mobile rant for a bit. Mobile browsing completely sucks right now. Whether it's websites that don't know how (or don't bother) to design with mobile in mind, or websites that do try to design with mobile in mind, and go completely over the top to the point that it ruins UX (Why do we still see websites where you can swipe left/right to switch articles. Does anyone every actually need to swipe through blog posts that rapidly?) It feels like there are very few websites that don't outright ruin mobile browsing.
And even when you find one of the nice ones, your browser mucks it all up by thinking it is smarter than the web designers. "Font Boosting" makes Reddit and several forums I frequent completely unreadable for me. Even on the mobile versions of the sites! It seems to get worse as you go down the page, and after 30-40 comments, the font sizes might as well have been chosen completely at random.
The other day, my phone warned me of low internal storage, and I saw the Chrome app was taking up 225mb of space on my android, and this is not including the additional 100mb+ from cache and data. That's 10% of my internal storage! Could you imagine if Chrome for desktop took up 100GB? /endrant
- ProAm 12y agoI second using ihackernews.com on mobile. It's got the UI nailed for this site.
- jhallenworld 12y agoMobile websites like ihackernews annoy me in a different way: there is no way to zoom without going into settings. Basically I think that if a site is made for mobile, pinching should change the text size. At least this is the case on Android. Perhaps iOS is different.