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by 10000truths 1302 days ago
> The website is illegible on my phone. I have to do some zooming and panning and it feels awful.

I see this complaint often, but I don’t get it. Zooming and panning are two dead simple gestures on any smartphone browser, no more difficult than scrolling. Out of all the annoyances I’ve encountered visiting a website on my smartphone, having to zoom or pan ranks near the bottom for me. Why is it such a nuisance for others?
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Waterluvian 1302 days ago
Requires more than my thumb. So now I have to alter my entire ergonomics of phone usage for a page.

Double tap can sometimes work.

The other issue is that now the website has two overflow axes. So I’m just kinda wandering a page in some way that wasn’t designed by the author. To each their own but it feels janky and uncomfortable to have to wander a page. Especially if the page was designed with a certain viewport size in mind. They’re not expecting this case.

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