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Hacker News is now more mobile friendly
- dang 12y agoYes, it's the return of <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, target-densitydpi=medium-dpi"> which we've tested many times before and found wanting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7985687 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7985687 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7330107 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7330107 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6253835 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6253835 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6253403 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6253403 We tried it again tonight and it seems to work better now. Not sure what changed. We're going to try leaving this on for a while and see how you all like it. Perhaps we'll do a poll in a day or two. Edit: even if we do leave it on, this is just a stopgap. The real fix will involve completely different markup. We're working on that.
- junto 12y agoSeems good to me on Android stock Chrome browser. Nice improvement. Thumbs up.
- cylinder714 12y agoLooks much better on my Nexus 4 (Android 5.0) running Firefox. The font size is as perfect as I could want--any smaller would be troublesome--and the consistent size is especially appreciated. Thanks! However, the left and right margins on the main and Newest pages are too wide in portrait mode. They look okay in landscape, but could be narrower. I would suggest just using the browser defaults. Thanks for all your efforts!
- protomyth 12y agoThis is really messed up on my iPhone 6 plus. The header is broken in half and the fonts are huge. I would revert until the real solution. Sorry.
- cauterized 12y agoLove the idea! Please just decrease the font sizes a bit? They're waaaay too big to read comfortably in landscape mode on an iPhone 5s. In portrait mode they're a bit larger than necessary and the wide gutters mean line length is too short for easy reading.
- wanderingstan 12y agoIt's a big improvement for me on an iPhone 5.
- ncza 12y agoIt was fine before already if you are using a browser with nice reflow. I am not sure what exactly changed but the front-page now seems to have extra padding on the sides making it annoyingly narrow. Same for /threads. /item pages are still their good old self.
- saurik 12y agoThis is horrible... :/. I use Hacker News as essentially my only website I use, and I use it constantly on mobile. Key information is now on random lines, often with linebreaks between things like "45 comments". It is no longer possible to zoom out to see a comment you are typing: the viewport is just broken entirely on edit pages (and it seems on many pages: the user settings page is also now largely unusable). That menu bar is just painful. What was wrong with it before?
- nailer 12y agoIf you used it before, you would probably be aware of the need to scroll to follow a single headline. What mobile OS/browser are you using?
- electrichead 12y agoIt is such a huge relief for me. I read HN mainly on my phone and it has always been a painful experience to manually zoom in for each page. I can't wait for a truly optimized stylesheet but this is great in the meantime.
- cityzen 12y agoIf you read HN on an iOS device check out http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/ Hands down the best way to read HN mobile
- grey-area 12y agoThe header is broken on iPad I'm afraid for certain longer usernames when logged in.
- serve_yay 12y agoWell, the fonts are bigger. But I would quarrel with some/all of the layout choices. Overall it's a wash.
- turbojerry 12y agoAll I get is "Basic Web is unable to make a secure connection at this time" on my Kindle DX, if anyone knows a workaround it would be helpful.