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by kbenson 3077 days ago
> the site is almost impossible to use (at least on mobile)

> I am entirely unsure what I’m supposed to click on

As a tangent, I wonder if we'll be stuck with "click" being a very common word to use to refer to following links when it makes no sense when in the context of a touch screen. English is littered with words like that, so it's possible it's here to stay, but occasionally (rarely, I admit), it jumps out at me as oddly out of place as it did here, even through it's entirely obvious what was being communicated.

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I've built sites before where the term "click" was automatically changed to "tap" on the mobile version.

It was just a function embedded in the multi-language routines.

4 or so years ago, I remember a frustrated Dev printed out signs on our floor at Zynga that was focused on the then early-mobile efforts that said “It’s a tap not a click!”
It is possible to click on a mobile device, although lots of software just treats it like a very precise touch, which makes no sense.