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How do you browse Hacker News from your phone these days?

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I'm using Android chrome browser and the links and buttons are so tiny that they're barely viewable. Is it just my settings or everyone is facing this? Seems like the viewport meta tag or something wasn't done right.

I don't want to use any third party apps as my phone is already full of them. A pity Android chrome doesn't allow extensions, otherwise I'd have written one myself to fix this as I've done on my desktop browser for many sites.

And there is that firebase API of course but it's read only, no use if I want to comment or vote.

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It's pretty screwed up on Safari on iOS also. At 100% font-size the text is a bit too small to read comfortably. Increase the font-size to 115% and the text actually gets smaller!

The viewport meta tag is fine. The problem is the table markup, which causes the page width to exceed the screen width if you enlarge the fonts too much, and the font-sizes in the CSS file, which are set to 10pt and smaller.

And reader-mode is disabled. I think that might also be due to the table markup. Not sure.

Glider from Fdroid. But if I click on a HN link shared to me in other apps, it opens in chrome. Other than that its been a pretty awesome experience.

Glider was fantastic for me before the re-write. Since then, my ancient 8 year old phone can't handle it anymore.

I now use Fennec/Firefox. HN is very light from the browser, and it does everything I want.

Everything is perfectly usable for me on the regular website on a Pixel 6, and I have my text size set to smaller than the default.

Android Chrome here. Everything is as it has always been, perfectly usable.

I use Brave Browser on iOS and enable Night Mode.

Octal (iOS)

Polished little app that presents HN very well

Simple and stable, no more complex than it needs to be, never run into any issues w/ it

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