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Comment by mxcrossb | Hacker News Reader

I suspect the author doesn’t read his own website on mobile either...

That was quite painful to read. I have a feeling the author just doesn't use, or doesn't care about mobile the way the rest of us do.

I browse HN on mobile 95% of the time, most of the time I'll just back straight out of a site like that, but I was interested in his take on the mobile game grind fest.

I also don't play games on mobile except PoGo which is perfectly suited to the platform.

I spend plenty of money on mobile-non-games so it's not a blanket "I don't spend money on mobile".

> That was quite painful to read. I browse HN on mobile 95% of the time, most of the time I'll just back straight out of a site like that,

On the flip side, how are you a mobile power user that doesn't use some sort of reader mode.

Edit: I regret this comment. I was an ass.

On iOS, on an iPhone 8 Plus, reader mode cuts off part of the text of the article.

That's not the point, you lose the nuance of someone's site with reader mode. My site is as readable on mobile as it is on desktop, and that's important to me, because I want them to experience it as I designed it.

What is important is that the author is giving an opinion on mobile gaming, while showing very little regard to mobile readers with the site design, it changes the narrative of the article as a whole.

Most browsers have 'reader view' or something like it. I use it on most websites, even ones that have put some effort into being mobile-friendly.

Firefox's Reader View doesn't fully reflow text in <pre> elements (it only wraps the individual lines to fit), so it looks bad even on desktop.

I use HN through an app, and articles use the embedded browser, which strips the chrome so reader mode isn't available. I can open the link in my regular browser (Firefox), and from that I can use reader mode, but that's a couple of extra steps.

I'm, if you're writing an article about mobile games, the website should be usable on mobile without reader mode. That shouldn't even require saying...

It looks bad (even on desktop), but the good thing is that it does not try to break my browser proactively, unlike, say, all news websites. Shockingly, there's no javascript at all!

It’s not too awful with Reader Mode.

Somehow the page is written in such a way that Safari does not allow triggering the reader mode. I had to pass through Instapaper to read this.

Safari suggests Reader for me. You on iOS or macOS?

On iOS

Safari’s Reader Mode trigger is nondeterministic. I’ve sometimes gotten it to work if I reload the page or wait a while.

I mean, it looks terrible on my iMac, too. Even a 5K Retina display can't save the site from the tiny font and non-contrasting colours.

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