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We haven't focused on making the editor mobile friendly as most diagrams are too complex for such a small screen - hence why it sucks on mobile. I'm sure it's something we could improve later on as an "on the go" mode, but for now it's not been a priority. Is there a use case to use this on a phone?

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> Is there a use case to use this on a phone?

You should probably be thinking of it the opposite way, is there a reason people wouldn’t use it on their phones? It’s on the web, the web is on your phone! People use their phones all the time for work-related things so they are going to expect this to be available there, too.

I disagree. Sure, we use our phones more and more and expect an increasing number of apps to work on them, but sometimes we arrive at a site that we understand can't really provide meaningful usability on mobile. A complex architecture diagramming tool is something I expect to dig into on my desktop. Perhaps some functionality could be optimized to work on mobile or, at the very least, the app should recognize you're mobile and not just crap out, if only to say "You should open this in a desktop browser." But I really don't see the use case for casually browsing an architecture that explains how my VPC connects to the IGW and NATGW and which private subnet my foobar is deployed into. And if for some reason I do arrive at that diagram, I kind of expect it to be a less-than-ideal situation on mobile.

Maybe on an iPad but on a phone?

Diagramming on a tablet is an interesting idea, maybe it can provide a better whiteboard-like experience.

I was thinking of consuming content only, not creating

Yeh it would work better for consuming

It seems like a sensible choice that mobile isn’t your focus - I’m just chilling on the sofa browsing HN after work… I don’t think I know the product well enough to comment on a mobile use case, but I’ll let you know if I think of something when I take a further look

The iPad Pro 12.9 has a better (higher resolution) screen than most business users.

iPad Pro would be good; I have multiple enterprise clients where many of the in-person conversations include showing people diagrams on iPad Pro tablets, and editing them on the fly.

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