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Comment by Udo | Hacker News Reader

Offtopic, but this is the second comment of yours where many space characters have been replaced by random periods. It really makes your posts more difficult to parse. Did you get a new keyboard or something? ;-)

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I'm guessing they're typing comments on a mobile keyboard, where the period character and the spacebar are right next to each other. With the sort of keyboard software that doesn't auto-capitalise.

Also one that doesn't let you read your comment back to check for errors?

I am using a.android, the WiFi of the place I live broke, and thus I need to use mobile 3g, also HN behaves really badly on mobile, I have to type everything in one go, if I close the keyboard to see errors in the form, it does not open in correct place anymore.

Im also on an android, and can confirm the keyboard to be shit. This took too much effort to write.

I can triple confirm. When Im typing on my phone I have periods everywhere because of mistyping.

Try SwiftKey [1]. I've never looked back.

[1] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.touchtype....

I did after you recommended it. It is light years ahead. Thank you.

Seems odd, but maybe you aren't using swiftkey? I thought it was standard on Android, these days.

Using HN on mobile means dealing with an unresizeable text field that is constantly more than half off of your screen. Even when editing, it's not possible to view the entire text box if you want to be able to interact with the text inside it.

Mobile HN has been a problem since we started accessing the site with our phones, but has never been addressed.

I think it's because of the iOS keyboard misfeature of displaying a period when tapping space twice.

Nope. iOS replaces two spaces with a period and a space after it.

As does my Droid Razor Maxx. I wish Android was more consistent across vendors...

Discovered this by accident and it's great. Now I just wish for an Apple upgrade to the jailbreak go back/edit text thing where you can scroll back by sliding over the keys.

You can turn that off, you know.

I thought it was some kind of code.

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