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All I want for Christmas is the three lines of CSS it would take to make HN responsive. If that's not possible, I'll take world peace instead.

krat0sprakhar 12y ago
This is up for contention but I'm not sure it takes just 3 lines of CSS to a make a table heavy layout responsive :D
- freshyill 12y ago
  Is is actually tables? I haven't actually looked at the source, but I imagine that tearing out all the templates and styles, and redoing roughly the same design can't be more than a day or two's worth of work. Maybe there's a fear that if it got too pretty, they might start to attract the wrong crowd?
  - srcreigh 12y ago
    HN hasn't always had an API, so they didn't want to change the HTML because it would break the apps that rely on scraping the markup to get the content. You can read more at this blog post [1] announcing the HN API. [1]: http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api
gpfault 12y ago
I'd like collapsible comments more :)
- bombtrack 12y ago
  There's several extensions folks have written to add layers of functionality to HN -- collapsible comments being a major one. I use HN Enhancement Suite: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhancement-s/bappiabcodbpphnojdiaddhnilfnjmpm?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
- throwaway_yy2Di 12y ago
  There's about a dozen extensions adding this feature -- it's an HN evergreen (because everyone loves it, and it's so easy to implement?): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8706496 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8706496 (I wrote one of the Firefox ones -- CollapsableThreads.user.js)
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aragot 12y ago
Seriously, don't make it responsive. I'm already shortening my eyesight by reading HN compulsively on a large iPad, I can't imagine the effects of reading it on a phone.
- joshschreuder 12y ago
  MiniHack is pretty awesome.
tormeh 12y ago
If you use opera on a smartphone, just go to the settings and enable text wrap. You're welcome :)
0xkd 12y ago
Try this http://hn.premii.com/# http://hn.premii.com/#

krat0sprakhar 12y ago

This is up for contention but I'm not sure it takes just 3 lines of CSS to a make a table heavy layout responsive :D

freshyill 12y ago
Is is actually tables? I haven't actually looked at the source, but I imagine that tearing out all the templates and styles, and redoing roughly the same design can't be more than a day or two's worth of work. Maybe there's a fear that if it got too pretty, they might start to attract the wrong crowd?
- srcreigh 12y ago
  HN hasn't always had an API, so they didn't want to change the HTML because it would break the apps that rely on scraping the markup to get the content. You can read more at this blog post [1] announcing the HN API. [1]: http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api http://blog.ycombinator.com/hacker-news-api

gpfault 12y ago

I'd like collapsible comments more :)

bombtrack 12y ago
There's several extensions folks have written to add layers of functionality to HN -- collapsible comments being a major one. I use HN Enhancement Suite: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhancement-s/bappiabcodbpphnojdiaddhnilfnjmpm?hl=en https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/hacker-news-enhanc...
throwaway_yy2Di 12y ago
There's about a dozen extensions adding this feature -- it's an HN evergreen (because everyone loves it, and it's so easy to implement?): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8706496 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8706496 (I wrote one of the Firefox ones -- CollapsableThreads.user.js)

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aragot 12y ago

Seriously, don't make it responsive. I'm already shortening my eyesight by reading HN compulsively on a large iPad, I can't imagine the effects of reading it on a phone.

joshschreuder 12y ago
MiniHack is pretty awesome.

tormeh 12y ago

If you use opera on a smartphone, just go to the settings and enable text wrap. You're welcome :)

0xkd 12y ago

Try this http://hn.premii.com/# http://hn.premii.com/#