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maybe it's just mobile safari, but hacker news in the browser on mobile is unusable for me.

What's the problem? It's almost perfect on android, for me.

Text links/buttons are terribly small, almost impossible to click. Text is too small too, but manageable. And of course mobile browser don't just let you zoom like on a PC

Text works ok for me (you also can zoom in iOS Safari in the "tab menu" bar button!), but I've definitely downvoted things I've been meaning to upvote when reading on a shaky bus/train.

> And of course mobile browser don't just let you zoom like on a PC

You absolutely can. Press button to the left of URL bar (don't know how it is called, where you can also enter reader mode) and at the bottom you'll find 100%. Press it and you'll have to A buttons that allow you to scale.

There's more than one browser. And neither the default chromium-esque browser in GrapheneOS nor Firefox let me do anything like that.(Firefox surely has some plugin but that's besides the point)

> maybe it's just mobile safari

Example: https://imgur.com/a/qzvhyfF

I’ve been reading hacker news only through hckrnews.com for years and never looked back

Thanks! Never knew about that one!

I love hckrnews! I even cloned it to tailor it to how I use it[1]. Still working on filters and point threshold.

[1] https://hnr.app

Is there a way to search?

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