[ShellfishMeme]

I wouldn't call the user experience "perfectly fine" though. It's about as "perfectly fine" for exploring the content on a phone as pasta with ketchup is perfectly fine for eating. You won't starve but you also aren't really having a good time.

[boredtofears]

Strongly disagree. It's just a plain old HTML website pretty much the same as hacker news (no coincidence that it's built in the same era).

Completely fine for reading purposes and mostly free of all the UX "optimizations" for ads and such.

[kitsunesoba]

HN is fine on desktop but I don't really enjoy it on mobile much. Tiny tap targets, font sizes and spacing seem a bit "off", etc, and so I use a third party client.

Have similar feelings about old reddit on mobile.

What it comes down to is that yeah they're better than new reddit, but that's not much of a bar to clear and if I'm going to be spending extended periods of time using a site/service the experience needs to be good not just passable.

[nullindividual]

There are some good HN mobile clients. On iOS I use (and purchased) Octal [0]. I find this particular mobile experience far superior to the HN website.

[0] https://github.com/dangwu/Octal

[mynameisvlad]

HN adjusts to a mobile viewport. old.reddit.com is literally reading a desktop site on a phone screen.

It works, but it's not a good experience, nor is it on par with HN.