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One major change HN would need on mobile would be making the click target for actions (up/down vote, reply, etc) larger.

Currently I need to zoom in every time to click any of them.

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No. I'm fine zooming in or trying multiple times, I spend much more time trying to read which becomes harder when more and more of the screen is taken up by things that are not text.

They could make the up/down arrows taller, but not wider. This would prevent fat-fingering the wrong vote, and would not take space from text.

Yes. It's annoying having workarounds for basic site functionality.

There are other ways to do this. The arrows could be put to the right of the [-] icon and wider apart.

Also what's with the blurry arrows for votes?

Blurry arrows? I don't see any? Which ones do you mean? Screenshot?

HN uses images of 16px height for arrows, which are rendered on mobile with ~48-96px height.

Obviously, that ends up blurry. The solution is SVG.

Isn't the solution simply unicode?

I suppose it is easier to control the actual size, padding and so on with SVG. Unicode does have correct glyphs though and I suppose that the exact rendering of the arrows is not much of a priority. However currently they are blurry on any high dpi screen.

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