What phone are you using? It’s perfectly workable on my phone, and a breeze compared to the cancer that is crappy sites and apps like Reddit.

The main issue I notice is that the up/down arrows and other UI elements are too tiny to easily/accurately tap with a touchscreen. Thankfully touchscreens are pretty good at guessing which HTML element my fat fingers are touching, but it still leaves me a bit paranoid about e.g. whether I upvoted or downvoted.

After you vote, look for whether the text next to the timestamp says "unvote" or "undown". That will tell you whether you upvoted or downvoted.

In tiny, gray text, with words that look similar to those with imperfect eyesight. It could easily be improved without breaking the site's entire aesthetic, IMO.

I never noticed "unvote" was exclusively used for upvotes. I had been thinking there was no way to check. Thank you.

It’s so bad on mobile that there’s a market of HN clients.

Myself I am writing this from an app I’ve bought on the App Store.

> text too small

I am acutely nearsighted so I can still read 2mm tall characters unaided and am well past the point when most humans require corrective lenses for reading.

It's sort of a super power right about now.

So it depends. I dislike large text on my phone. old.reddit.com works just fine for me as well.

Text size is perfect for reading, even on my small hi-res device. I do agree with the UI elements though.

Post text is pretty bad, sometimes even on my PC...

That post text is the same color as a downvoted comment is truly baffling to me. What benefit could that possibly have?

For mobile I use GLIDER for Hacker news. It a pretty good experience :)

On iOS, you can set the text size to be larger using the Aa button in safari.

If you are looking for an app, I am the developer of HACK which is available on both iOS/MacOS/iPadOS and Android:

https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/hack-for-hacker-news-developer...

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.pranapps.h...

> If you are looking for an app, I am the developer of HACK

A little off-topic, but I'm totally blind (use VoiceOver) and just tried the app on iOS. A few issues:

* Several buttons are unlabelled, so I'm not sure what they do. * Navigating through posts isn't the most efficient (I need to swipe several times to move from post to post). * The relative level of comments within a thread isn't announced (i.e. replies to OP are at level 1, replies to those replies are level 2, etc). Are these indented visually? * Accessibility actions should be added to quickly vote, reply to comments, etc.

Happy to provide additional feedback/model apps that do this well, but I'm not an iOS developer.

Thanks for the feedback. It’s my fault and I apologize because I hadn’t taken accessibility into account while development. I will look into making the app accessible in updates.

Probably not so useful for mobile, but have a look at Refined HN extension: https://github.com/plibither8/refined-hacker-news

I discovered it a few days ago. It seems to include a "override CSS" box in the menu, allowing anyone to customize the look of HN.

While I agree that the UX on mobile could be better, it might actually be beneficial to comment quality that HN encourages desktop use.

The first issue, I'd have to disagree. I think it's perfectly usable. Second issue, it doesn't bother me but fair point

I miss two things: inline `typewriter font` and

- bulleted/ordered

- lists without making each entry its own paragraph.