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0 pointsShellfishMeme2y ago0 comments

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.

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boredtofears2y ago

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.

kitsunesoba2y ago

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.

nullindividual2y ago

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

mynameisvlad2y ago

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.

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