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Comment by afandian | Hacker News Reader

I'm amazed that Quartz is still in business. Whilst on a desktop it's just horrible to use, on my Android it flat out doesn't work. The comment thing covers the whole screen and I can't see any content. How difficult is it to make a website that works on modern browsers? I wanted to read this, it looks interesting.

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Wow yeah, firefox here on a desktop - they moved the browser's scroll bar from the far right to the right of their content (the middle of a 1920px wide browser). I was clicking where the scroll bar would be to try to scroll - and what that did was for every click I made (on a blank background), when I clicked "back" to get back to HN after I read it, it cycled me through as many different stories as erroneous clicks I made before allowing me to back all the way to HN. (basically spamming 3 different stories I didn't want to read instead of "back" button functionality)

Terrible UX.

Edit: additional paranthetical

Somehow the site manages to break almost every method of scrolling in opera. I can't use the scroll wheel on the mouse, nor arrow keys, nor page down, nor spacebar. I have to scroll by grabbing the scroll bar.

Can't speak to android but I love their site on my desktop and love the articles I have read there so far. So, I guess I might be the reason why they are still in business.

I love their content. So far, it browses fine for me in chrome and on iOS. I'd be fine with a simpler presentation, though.

It is certainly no OnSwipe, crasher of browsers.

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