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Comment by gf000 | Hacker News Reader

> Hacker News however?

While being completely useless on mobile, with tiny buttons and textarea, which could be fixed while barely making the whole thing larger.

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Hacker news is perfect on mobile. How often do you vote? It is so content dense it’s perfect for mobile.

The reply, parent, context, and collapse buttons are almost unusably small

Have you tried Sync, the reddit client? It's basically the same kind of content and it's night and day how much more usable and readable it is. Meanwhile I have to use a Firefox extension to make HN black-on-orange.

But credit to lobster.rs, they also did an excellent job with the UI on web tech, while still being very reasonable on the css/JS side (though I can't check right now how much they serve)

That's not a JS problem. It's a UI problem and you mostly solve it with CSS and adapting the HTML, you don't need to add a 3 MB JS framework for that.

Maybe we can do the fotm and instead generate it on the fly via an LLM?

Each user can get their own stylesheet and every request will be a small surprise how it looks.

Fantastic idea, right? No? Always these haters...

I agree, it could become way better on mobile with just some small fixes. But in some ways I'm more afraid of a complete redesign.

Life changer for me was discovery of Scaling in iOS Safari.

125% it’s quite nice, actually. Large enough font to read.

Hacker News is the only usable mobile website

Maybe that was true when we were using feature phones where you had to navigate up/down link-by-link in some awful UX.

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