Comment by dredmorbius

Keep.

It's not a huge improvement, but it's slightly better.

I'd actually sent HN a long review of mobile experience on a 10" tablet acouple of days ago and received a response from dang earlier tonight tipping me off to this. I'm not sure I'd have noticed without that.

In vertical orientation, viewport width is better, and an annoying glitch where font size changed apparently randomly on some nested comments is gone.

Overall UI/UX of links and controlls needs improvement. Especially voting arrows. I'm told an undo is in the works.

My view is that HN's basic page layout needs a full revamp at least internally, to give better styling control via CSS. This doesn't mean huge theme changes, though that's also possible.

Building the page around a sane line length would be a really good start.

What issues are the result of braindead mobile browsers (lack of ctrl-+ font zoom, click registration errors, left/right click distinction, click vs select, etc.) I don't know, though I suspect that's part of it.