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Updates and an announcement from LWNUpdates and an announcement from LWNPosted Jul 5, 2012 13:09 UTC (Thu) by Lovechild (guest, #3592)In reply to: Updates and an announcement from LWN by pest Parent article: Updates and an announcement from LWN
I'd personally like a mobile version of the site. I mostly end up reading LWN on my phone and my tablet and having a good mobile version would certainly improve that experience. Ars Technica's mobile site e.g. is a great improvement over their desktop site for small screens.
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Updates and an announcement from LWN Posted Jul 5, 2012 15:42 UTC (Thu) by jond (subscriber, #37669) [Link]
Agreed. I use "instapaper" for some of the longer LWN articles.
Updates and an announcement from LWN Posted Jul 6, 2012 10:05 UTC (Fri) by ersi (subscriber, #64521) [Link]
I'll second the need for some mobile/small-screen customization of the site and/or article. It would be very pleasant to have.
This should hopefully not require too much change to the current site :-)
Updates and an announcement from LWN Posted Jul 6, 2012 13:31 UTC (Fri) by pspinler (subscriber, #2922) [Link]
I disagree. This is one of the very few non-mobile websites that renders nicely and is easily readable on my smartphone and tablet.
Please, keep this site as simple and fast as it has always been! It's a breath of fresh air in the over CSS'd, flash heavy internet.
-- Pat
Updates and an announcement from LWN Posted Jul 6, 2012 19:22 UTC (Fri) by geuder (subscriber, #62854) [Link]
> I'd personally like a mobile version of the site.
Just for curiousity: On what kind of device lwn is not usable?
I used to do 90% of my lwn reading and even some commenting on an N900. Of course that's a better device than many others. But recently I have been forced to downgrade to an older Symbian device, because my dear N900 shows signs of mechanical aging. And lwn still is fully usable even on that infamous platform. (Not sure whether this proves that less (eye candy) is more or whether Symbian is better than its reputation, probably both...)
Updates and an announcement from LWN Posted Jul 6, 2012 19:30 UTC (Fri) by boudewijn (subscriber, #14185) [Link]
It's pretty hard on the n950 -- even in landscape position, the lack of reflow means the fonts need to be rather small.
Updates and an announcement from LWN Posted Jul 6, 2012 19:40 UTC (Fri) by geuder (subscriber, #62854) [Link]
Ahh, I'm short-sighted and comfortable with small fonts. Maybe it's worse for normal-sighted readers.
Crowd-sourced funding for improving the site? Posted Jul 9, 2012 0:50 UTC (Mon) by alison (✭ supporter ✭, #63752) [Link]
Lovechild opines:
>I'd personally like a mobile version of the site.
A mobile version of the site most definitely: not a horrid tablet app, but content that rerenders properly so that constant scrolling isn't necessary.
A better RSS feed and better search engine are also no-brainers. Improved external visibility of the content would help popularize the site.
What about a Kickstarter/IndieGoGo project to hire a developer to make some of these improvements? I'll go on record saying I'm willing to contribute. We funded the Debian sysadmin manual this way, and we can fund LWN Upgrade too!
-- Alison Chaiken
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