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Comment by thih9 | Hacker News Reader

It’s hard to read cards on mobile.

If I tap a card to read the full text, the card then covers other cards. If I tap on another card, it now covers the rest. And if I tap the original card to remember a detail from the description, this now plays the card.

Edit: Looks like clicking anywhere else “deselects” the active cards - this way it is possible to read the description of all cards at any time without playing any.

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I modified the behaviour so that tap and hold will straighten the card and magnify it. When you release it just goes back to the original position. Short tap plays the card.

You can tap off of cards to shrink them back.

But then you choose it. I misselected several times

Weird, I had no problems deselecting cards by just tapping off to the side. Usually bottom right.

On mobile screens the cards that were previously selected take a lot of space in the background; if you click that background card, intending to “deselect” the foreground card, then you suddenly play the background card. But yes, if you click anywhere else then all cards are deselected. Still, I find this very unintuitive.

I changed the behavior now: tap and hold magnifies it and short tap select the card. At least with my fingers now I was able to avoid the mentioned side effects

Yeah, the part where clicking a non-selected card can play it is very unintuitive.

I was just remarking on the deselecting part, since I didn't have much trouble with it. Might vary per specific resolution/aspect ration.

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