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Comment by icefox | Hacker News Reader

Almost 10% of us are mobile. On a small screen with slower bandwidth HN is a lot nicer than /. Almost annoying that even though the site is so efficient already the site icon and the logo aren't the same url or that the arrows are not unicode arrows or just one image rotates or ... :)

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I don't know if I can agree with you about bandwidth. HN has been really, really slow lately. It's a constant and long-lived malaise. Slashdot loads much quicker.

I think he means that the design of the site is better if you have a not-so-good connection, as HN is much lighter in the HTML department.

This. HN loads a lot faster than Slashdot if you're ever on a slow connection.

Agree about "Y", I often tap it and end up at YC when expecting HN.

Given that it does go to YC it makes even more sense to have it be the YC site icon so if the YC guys ever change that logo/icon HN would automatically get it. Then again a lot of mobile browser don't fetch the site icon so couldn't it just be a 'Y' in an orange box with no icon fetching at all?

Looking at the code one way to speed up the total site load time would be to have the main page be static and completely cachable. onload have it fetch a list of articles and populate the main page. This way it would fetch the articles and images all at the same time v.s generating the main page, and then fetching the resources.

Use the 'N' instead. That seems to work just fine.

I'm not a mobile user and I have HN loaded as a Firefox app tab. Go figure.

On a related note: http://ihackernews.com/ offers a nice UI for mobile.

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