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Comment by onemoresoop | Hacker News Reader

This website is format is really weird for mobile, I can only read two lines of text. The rest is covered by a big banner. Im on IOS. Anybody else having this issue or is it just me?

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HN has moved on, but I wanted to come back again and say thank you to you and those who replied below. I just pushed an update to the website that makes the header much more mobile device friendly.

Thanks for the heads up. The navigation header does not collapse as I never liked hamburger menus but it should be more than two lines. Works more than that on my iPhone 16. What size is yours? I will pull it up in the Firefox simulator next week and try to make it better.

We recently updated the design. This is a very old site so it has some quirks in the design for sure.

Android Firefox here, top nav takes up 1/3rd of the viewport

Same. So much spacing between the 3 lines. If they want to keep that huge header I'd suggest it gracefully entirely disappear when scrolling down and reappear when scrolling up.

Thank you. I will work on that.

I didn't go with the scroll up but did drastically shrink the header and make a hamburger menu. I still like having it sticky because many a time I have been on a page and forgot who I was reading. Hopefully what is up now is a good tradeoff and provides good experience for a future reader.

Appreciate you.

You’re welcome. The banner obscures the view almost totally and I can read only 2 lines of text and scroll through that. I have a small device, Iphone se2022 if it helps.

Same thing in Firefox on Android but I used uBO element picker to select the header and nuke it. There is a link to the home page on the HTML below it and links in the footer. There is little to gain from that sticky header and much to lose.

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