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I know that the whole "it doesn't work without javascript" story sounds like "get off my lawn", but content authors, esp on HN, need to realise that quite a few of us refuse to browse the Web with JS enabled esp on mobile devices.

With JS the experience on the mobile web is garbage. It's difficult enough to find quality content as it is, we don't need all the added "benefits" of JS.

> but content authors, esp on HN, need to realise that quite a few of us refuse to browse the Web with JS enabled esp on mobile devices.

They kind of don't though, given this is such a tiny fraction of visitors

I realize it, I just don't care.

Is there any quality content that is hidden behind JS? From the comments here, OP isn't.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

Please don't complain about website formatting, back-button breakage, and similar annoyances. They're too common to be interesting. Exception: when the author is present. Then friendly feedback might be helpful.

I mean, it's time to accept that JS is everywhere. Or, you can do something like Stallman, and have a remote machine send screenshots to you, so you don't have to run non-free JS.