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Comment by jesprenj | Hacker News Reader

I love how a page criticising web developers is unreadable on my phone because one centimeter of text is cut off on the right (:

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I'm sorry about this, and don't have any excuse for it. I'm working on fixing it now.

Edit - It should be fixed now. GitHub Actions seems to be having some issues so it took a long time to deploy

Hey man. Just chill. We're a bunch of opinionated techies that like to banter - but we don't sign your pay check or teach your kids or do anything that's actually beneficial for you.

You don't owe us an excuse

lmao

so many people I know have amazing projects and work they're afraid to post here because they don't want a massive audience of highly technical people picking at the bugs

I know there's no malicious intent, I'm just sad that such a basic thing is preventing people from reading the post. I'm happy when people are picking holes in the content - that's all valuable discussion we wouldn't have had otherwise, but I don't think anyone's going to argue in favor of making your website not fit on a mobile screen!

I 100% agree with your point with what you can do without javascript but like... test on mobile first we can't read your site it's like 6am where I am and I am NOT getting out of bed to read this on a computer

It's fixed now, so you should be able to read it fine on mobile.

The reason it was broken was because when writing the toy examples, I went in with the mindset of creating an example rather than production code, and set them all to a static `width: 25em` - forgetting that these toy examples were going to be inlined into the page. Silly mistake, should be checking each post before publishing, learnt my lesson now!

lol, I'm in this boat (although no idea if my project is amazing or if it's just a really stupid idea). One day I'll probably post it.

It definitely requires a bit of a thick skin at times, and to know when not to respond to people. Still though, I'd encourage you to post it! Some of the best discussions I've ever had about my projects has been with people on / from HN

I've learned over the years that in this business you grow thick skin or get out. I have found too that being able to accept criticism has made me a better person.

From time to time though, "Fuck everyone, you're all wrong!" is also still kind of fun.

> they don't want a massive audience of highly technical people picking

I'd suggest finding a bright side: if all a massive audience of highly technical people can find wrong is presentation nitpicks, then there your project/idea/content can't be too terrible.

Though to be fair to the nitpickers, if you are criticising design matters you should probably make sure your own design is solid enough.

Next post: 5 Things you don't need GitHub actions for

I'm 100% guilty of over-using GH actions, although it wouldn't have helped in this case. The issue was GH pages refusing to update the site after I'd pushed the new files to the repo.

Of course, all that would be avoided by just running a web server locally!

There is still something wrong: https://imgur.com/a/OcedUsX

The main text column has the right size now but I can scroll 50 vw out to the side.

It's absolutely unusable on my iPhone with increased UI size.

https://imgur.com/a/Eroiblj

same on samsung note 9

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