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Perfectly functional? Not for me [1]. I had to open the document on a laptop because all I got on mobile was pixelated half-rendered gibberish. Attn: dang, HN s
by nsomaru 12y ago
Perfectly functional? Not for me [1]. I had to open the document on a laptop because all I got on mobile was pixelated half-rendered gibberish. Attn: dang, HN should pop a dialog recommending against a submission to scribd.
There's also weighing that against getting the content onto HN if scribd is the only place it is found.
[1] Android 4.2.2, Firefox Android 33.1, Opera Mini 7.6.1
- aragot 12y agokefka said: > Scribd is "Hacker News" quality. They're one of the HN venture capital funded companies. I agree with @nsomaru that it would be great to submit PDFs rather that Scribd links, especially since the HN guidelines say the original document should be submitted. On the other hand, I'm not sure if HN wants to bypass a YC-funded company.
- zentiggr 12y agoI don't think it should make any difference what relations the companies have. Scribd was less bad than Adobe plugin lockups. Scribd is more bad than current solutions. They can improve their experience, or not. Right now, I don't see the usefulness.
- wahnfrieden 12y agoHN rehosts PDF links on Scribd, last I checked.
- aranjedeath 12y agoI mean except that it's not actually meant to be a pdf host. Hasn't been in years. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8034431 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8034431
- deong 12y agoI opened it on my desktop, and I for one thought the 720 point font was a lovely and refreshing departure from the standard web-presented text so many sites seem to lazily impose on us. :/