Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by scrollaway 2480 days ago
The other side of that coin is that on mobile the article is painful to read and the layout is horrible.

For what it's worth I hate medium as well. But I would recommend ghost.org if you want to go with self hosting.

4 comments

> The other side of that coin is that on mobile the article is painful to read and the layout is horrible.

Looks reader-mode-compatible in Safari, which solves the problem for any site that's mostly content.

You can make a lightweight blog with no ads which looks good on mobile by making a linked list of github gists. https://gist.github.com/cellularmitosis/1106b185f8b34ae0e36a...
Also choosing a good wordpress theme helps a lot. :)
The post is using [0] this theme, which hasn't been updated in over 6 years.

[0] https://wordpress.org/themes/duster/

Seems ok reading in my mobile safari, not even using reader mode.
The code causes the page to scroll horizontally, unfortunately. Not a big deal, though: Reader Mode solves this on the client-side, and the website just needs to add CSS that lets the code scroll.