Is there a good way to read deep into LW comment histories on mobile?

post by Maxwell Peterson (maxwell-peterson) · 2022-01-17T19:02:31.140Z · LW · GW · 2 comments

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I sometimes like going through and reading a user’s comments, for those who make particularly good ones. But my mobile browser (Safari) loves refreshing pages when I haven’t been to the page for an hour. When this happens, I have to re-scroll down, and my current expedition requires minutes of scroll-click Load More-scroll to get back to where I was. I think Chrome on mobile does this too. Does anyone have any ideas on how I can do this better? (I really prefer reading on my phone).

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answer by Ruby · 2022-01-17T21:45:20.491Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

You could try using Greaterwrong.com and see if they're viewer is easier to find your place again. I'll see what else I can think of.

↑ comment by Maxwell Peterson (maxwell-peterson) · 2022-01-17T22:32:06.316Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Just tried it; works perfect! Since it pages comments, the refresh won’t lose my place. Thanks!

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comment by Dagon · 2022-01-17T22:40:23.629Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

The experience on mobile is bad enough (clicking brings up windows that can't be easily dismissed, wierd bugs where expanding a comment marks others as read, etc.) that this is a site that I just don't read except on desktop. 

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↑ comment by Maxwell Peterson (maxwell-peterson) · 2022-01-17T23:18:34.557Z · LW(p) · GW(p)

Interesting! I haven’t noticed any other issues on mobile except the refreshing (which is a problem on all infinite-scrollers; I have the same problem reading through a user’s page on Quora) and not being able to hyperlink text when commenting.