Ask HN: Why does not HN have a mobile friendly site?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10037088

by alexander996 • 11 years ago

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It seems to be pretty easy to make. A work for one or two days for simplest styles for mobile. Currently, I visit the site from android mobile phone and I really like it. But the site looks very unfriendly on my phone: tiny fonts, desktop layout, everything is small. Make it guys :) please. P.s. I know about apps for HN and android.

killerpopiller• 11 years ago

the shoe maker wears the worst shoes

a3n• 11 years ago

I never figured out how to make mobile Firefox render HN nicely. Mobile Chrome can be configured to make HN easier to use, but it still has its charming warts.

dang• 11 years ago

We're working on it. A recent comment about this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10012910.

alexander996• 11 years ago

Thanks :)

DrScump• 11 years ago

What's wrong with me? I use HN over Opera or Dolphin all the time.

The problem with so many commercial "mobile-friendly" sites is that they are just dumbed-down abonimations.

Worse yet is when a site dumbs down its desktop site to limit it to the "feature" set of its mobile offering, like Stubhub recently did. They actually stripped out the ability to search for 5/6/7/8/9 seats; search by SRO or non-SRO; search by handicapped accessibility (!); search by aisle seating; search by listings which include parking, etc... all criteria that were baked into the desktop site for years.

Ask HN: Why does not HN have a mobile friendly site?

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