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1. jff+V4[view] [source] 2013-01-04 04:59:58
>>muelle+(OP)
It's simple but effective. The pages load quickly and look pretty decent in many different browsers.

I'm really happy that HN isn't your typical constantly-mutating, constantly growing news site, adding a new social share button and 2KB of new Javascript every week. Please, pg, don't start taking pull requests or anything like that, it's great the way it is.

Edit: look at the current top story. A pretty but not especially functional Facebook redesign, proposed as the latest in a long line of changes that the users pretty much always disliked. There's my point.

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2. chj+H7[view] [source] 2013-01-04 06:15:54
>>jff+V4
A big problem is: Comments are too deep for mobile devices.
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3. martin+ha[view] [source] 2013-01-04 07:37:06
>>chj+H7
Agreed, the site isn't all that usable from mobile devices. I use the Hacker News Reader app [0] for Android, it has a very nice interface and it's open source. [1]

[0] https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.manuelmaly...

[1] https://github.com/manmal/hn-android

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