>You are on a site that is not broken, slow or spammy.

Is this sarcasm? I honestly can't tell. You have never experienced the expired link error? Or the 'site not available' error? HN is one of the most broken websites I frequently visit.

Also you ignored the part about tiny links. HN is full of tiny links: have you used the site on a phone and tried to upvote a post?

No, not sarcasm. HN sits with craigslist on the set of sites that the UX is in the community not the site.

This site is totally broken for mobile, and has been for years despite complaints.

I surf this site on my iphone daily. Yes I occassionally downvote something I did not mean to, yes dead link annoys me if I lose what I typed. But the user experience of sharing and gathering opinions of intelligent well informed people from all corners of the world and backgrounds more than compensates. IMO of course.

And thats what I mean - Craigslist is the other "broken" site that does UX well. Its not meant to be pretty or responsive - its meant to do what I expect it to do.

If pg decided to fix the broken CR/LF issue, he might be tempted to add bootstrap, and then make it responsive, and then have a feedback form. So I quite like #lazilyproductive

Please don't say "UX" when you mean "content".

My experience of HN is mostly reading the content.

The User Interface is the text box, the outstanding orange/grey theme. But the experience is, upvote buttons that are too small to use well, and great insightful posts from clever informed people. Also me.

I do mean experience. Its a holistic thing.

The term "UX" doesn't generally include the content. I don't consider VLC to have bad UX if it's playing a movie I don't like.

It works reasonably on my Dell Venue Pro with Windows Phone and IE, though there are a few glitches when long comment pages don't word wrap. But I've been using HN on my phone for almost two years. Having a hardware keyboard helps - my Nokia brick had one too.