Ask HN: Can we make this site less annoying on mobile?

[verelo]

The links to comments, posts and the various too nav are super hard to hit accurately on my phone. Would any admin be open to implementing an improved UI for smaller viewports? I’d gladly donate the time to implement it, if that’s of any benefit?

[ecesena]

I think your best shot would be to make your own css, find a way to distribute to users, show traction and then propose it get applied by default.

[verelo → ecesena]

I like this plan! I’m going to do exactly this and see what i can come up with.

[wmf]

It's been that way for many years so, no, the admins won't fix it. Try a HN app or custom CSS.

[gtirloni → wmf]

Which is surprising given it's a plain text website. IMHO, it would easily get very high scores in accessibility tests.

[chrisked]

I have my doubts that any change will be implemented in the near future. Suggest using a HN app. On iOS I started out with MiniHack and recently switched to Octal due to faster updates. Check them out. They improved the experience drastically for me.

[luckman212 → chrisked]

Octal is amazingly good.

[gtirloni]

It only reaches 42 in the lighthouse accessibility test (in Chrome DevTools). Yeah, there's a long way to go.

[dang → gtirloni]

I'd like to fix that. It's just that there are other things to do which are closer to the task of keeping the site functioning at all. We'll get there eventually. Move slowly and preserve things.

[caryd]

I have no problems using the buttons, but they technically aren't accessible.

[duxup]

The nav is the only issue I see, but yeah it is a pain point.