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I don't understand what I am seeing on https://www.lmfdb.org, but frontend developers take note: See how quick informative websites can be even with server side rendered templates? And still the website looks consistently styled and actually kind of neat.

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On my phone the default navigation text size is too small and the front page only uses half of the vertical height of my screen in portrait. Some of the input boxes stick out past the header bar on the right hand side of the layout.

Firefox for Android.

Same on Chrome for iOS.

I probably don’t fall into the majority on this one, but I wish more websites basically defaulted to a zoomed out default and let me pan around them on mobile. I would much prefer it to modern non-dense information sparse screens with tons and tons of scrolling.

When it doesn’t work, is when column width is too wide to fit on a vertical screen at once, which isn’t a problem here when zoomed in.

> I would much prefer it to modern non-dense information sparse screens with tons and tons of scrolling.

It doesn't need to go to the opposite extreme (as you described it :-)) to be more readable by default on different screen sizes.

The default android browser used to let you just double tap to reflow text to the current zoom level, mostly like reducing the window width on desktop.

Yup, a couple of months(weeks?) ago, I submitted that website as an example of good information density, responsiveness and ease of navigation.

Regarding content, it started as a database of modular forms, indexed by various specialized numerical data; since then, it has grown to a repository of all kinds of number theoretic data, including number/function fields, elliptic curves, various special functions and much more.

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