Re:Ask HN: Why does not HN have a mobile friendly site?
by DrScump on Tuesday August 11, 2015 @09:42PM
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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.
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.