[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Have you noticed difficulty tapping links on...
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       Ask HN: Have you noticed difficulty tapping links on HN on iOS
       lately?
        
       In the past couple of months I have noticed much more difficulty
       having my taps on links in Chrome iOS register. I'll tap the same
       link multiple times with no response whatsoever. When this happens
       scrolling the page a bit and retrying does seem to help. I would
       estimate that about a third of my initial taps fail to register.
       This is on the main article links as well as the harder to hit tiny
       links for comment, upvote, etc. I have no idea if this is an issue
       with recent updates to iOS, Chrome or this site. It has been quite
       frustrating. Has anyone else been experiencing this?
        
       Author : bluehex
       Score  : 17 points
       Date   : 2021-11-28 21:56 UTC (1 hours ago)
        
       | deergomoo wrote:
       | I have not had that particular issue, but I have noticed another
       | strange behaviour that I only see on Hacker News on iOS Safari.
       | 
       | If I navigate to the comments, then click the article, about 50%
       | of the time, navigating back to the comments doesn't work. It
       | loads for a little while, but then just displays a static view of
       | the linked article. If I hit back again, I'm on the HN homepage,
       | then I can hit forward to return to the comments and all is fine
       | again. It's really bizarre.
        
         | moistly wrote:
         | This happens elsewhere, too. I notice it particularly on
         | Reddit, where viewing comments on a post then going back to the
         | list of posts reloads the page, but doesn't display it until I
         | "jiggle" the scroll bar. iOS 14 here.
        
       | khazhoux wrote:
       | I've seen this exact thing, Chrome iOS, for a couple of months
       | now. Not just HN but also reddit and others
        
       | yuppie_scum wrote:
       | Octal is a good client for HN on iOS
        
         | unstatusthequo wrote:
         | It's my go to for sure, excellent recommendation.
        
       | peanut_worm wrote:
       | I haven't noticed anything in Safari
        
       | spike021 wrote:
       | If you're thinking of what I'm thinking of, I haven't had it
       | happen on HN but have on other sites. It's like the links aren't
       | being recognized in iOS Safari as links, only text.
        
         | amacneil wrote:
         | Happened to me on Wikipedia today. iOS 15.1 Safari
        
       | aetherspawn wrote:
       | Not had any issues with Safari on iOS.
        
       | flog wrote:
       | Yes! I've been having to double tap links on iOS Chrome, as
       | you've described. I'm a frontend engineer so this had me puzzled.
       | It's not like there's a zindex issue with something blocking it,
       | as a double tap seems to often work.
        
       | prawn wrote:
       | I've found that my taps to upvote register as a downvote so I've
       | taken to tapping a lot higher than the arrows appear.
       | 
       | Unrelated, but any Reddit thread with more than a handful of
       | comments will reliably crash/reload/crash Safari/iOS for me. It's
       | been quite effective as I usually leave the site and save myself
       | time. Haven't been able to work out if it's common to others or
       | something unique about my phone/setup.
        
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