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by andix 1225 days ago
HN is really bad on touch devices. Call me young and naive, but I mostly read HN on the couch on my tablet.
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I use HN half on my phone and half on my desktop. It's OK on both, I just have to zoom the upvote buttons sometimes before touching them.
HN is one of the best web sites for my phone. There are some improvements they could make but I would not call being among the top 5% best mobile websites being "really bad".
I mostly read HN on my iPhone using the website with the zoom cranked up a little bit and I find it works better than the variety of native clients available.
It's better than the average news site but worse than if they just spent 10 minutes adding some mobile CSS. I constantly log out accidentally on mobile.
True. There is even a media query that can detect touch devices: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/@media/poin...

So they could keep the good old HN alive for PCs.

I use Hckrnews.com, which is convenient on my phone and allows me to filter posts in order to be focused with my time.