HN now mostly readable on mobile

[freditup]

The comments don't render correctly on FF on Android. They all render one after another and it's impossible to tell which comments are replies and which aren't. :(

[duffyt]

Same problem here. You can see the same effect on desktop FF by narrowing your window.

[Avshalom]

been like this for a week maybe. I thought this was going to be them fixing it.

'pparently not

[dang]

Yes, that's totally broken. Sorry; we'll fix it.

[amalcon]

Same here. I've been using a desktop user-agent to get rid of this.

[reddotX]

HN renders pretty good on Ubuntu Phone

[protomyth]

I wouldn't mind HN upping the indention when I have an iPhone 6+ in landscape mode. Its kind of hard to tell parents and children.

[Viper007Bond]

A way to collapse replies would also be appreciated. Sometimes I just want to read the top-level comments and scrolling through dozens of replies to find the next topic of discussion can be frustrating.

[eatonphil]

I have a similar issue on my Nexus 6 in portrait mode.

[sgrove]

This is the only challenge I have with it as well, otherwise it's a fantastic experience.

[fenomas]

I wonder if they've tried keeping all comments at the same width, while indenting children by a visible amount? That is:

     |---screen---|
      |-comment--|
       |--reply---|
        |--reply---|

That way you'd have to scroll down+right to follow a thread, but at least you could tell the difference between children and siblings, and never get super-narrow posts deep in a thread.

[MBCook]

iPhone 6 in portrait, same issue. Almost impossible to tell them apart without paying incredibly close attention.

[falcolas]

Some deeply nested conversations get the formatting hammer after a certain depth. A gentle slide to the right suddenly becomes 2" or more, with text jammed into half an inch of screen width.

[danieltillett]

Now if I only can stop fat-fingering down all the great posts.

[cryptoz]

Yep - it would also be great if HN provided an indicator of which way you voted. As it stands, I'd say I probably get it right about 75% of the time, but who knows? It's impossible to tell if you've upvoted or downvoted a comment still; and especially on mobile, I bet I get it wrong pretty often.

[hammock]

You're on iPhone aren't you. Having used both iPhone and Android for some time now I think its crazy how much more accurate Android is with pointing at small links on-screen. And in the rare instance it's not confident about what you meant to push, it will zoom in a bubble and ask you to click again (confirm), where the iPhone will just not do anything.

[sohkamyung]

Can the upvote and downvote triangular arrows be given more separation? On my Firefox Mobile, they appear together vertically close together and I fear I may tap on the wrong one.

[IgorPartola]

Whooooooo! Thank you dang and team. I have been very critical of the site's mobile unfriendliness in the past. Now I can use this as an example of a small change that makes a big difference. Certainly better late than never. You have probably saved me thousands over the lifetime in new glasses and contacts.

[bhauer]

On Windows Phone (I know, fringe audience, but I love it), I need to slightly adjust the zoom level on the comments view pages. The viewport is slightly narrower than the page's content, by about 15%.

But otherwise, and even with that small matter, it's a change that makes mobile use easier. Reading has always been fairly easy on mobile in my opinion, but clicking the right thing (e.g., the comments links) required either zooming or very careful aim. It's nice to not have that challenge any more.

I will echo the request for a bit more indentation for child comments. But I also understand the hesitation to add too much indentation given the narrow viewport.

[0xffff2]

On a Lumia 920 right now, and it looks fine to me.

[pnt12]

Doesn't work on my tablet, I get the desktop website with tiny letters. If I zoom in, I have to scroll horizontally to read the comments, which is a pain in the butt.

[buu700]

I'm surprised this wasn't announced officially by dang. I spent some time the other day searching for the official announcement of HN's new responsive design, and just figured I must've missed it.

[cryptoz]

There was an official thread a week ago, asking for feedback (which was mostly positive): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10489499

[asveikau]

Seems like the last week or so the comment indentation has been worse on Android with Chrome on a 7" tablet. It used to be a larger indent. Now I can't tell who's replying to what without thinking about it.

[itchyouch]

Unfortunately, it seems that the it broke the iOS client, Akepa . I'm sure other clients are also affected.

[smacktoward]

They've been telling client developers that they should move from screen-scraping to using the API (https://github.com/HackerNews/API) for a while now. I don't know if that's the problem with this specific client, but you may want to check with the developers and see if it is, and if so, what their ETA is for getting onto the API.

[VikingIV]

I just found this out by trying the site in mobile Chrome for the first time in months. Pleasant surprise!

[mrzool]

Welcome to 2013, HN!

[sl1e]

Awesome, thank you,

[thedrbrian]

And now we get massive text. Responsive

[threefour]

Thank you