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Hacker News Mobile Site Not Formatting Correctly

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Mike D
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Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com) does not format correctly on Firefox for Android. It requires horizontal scrolling.

The website displays correctly on other mobile browsers such as the DuckDuckGo browser.

Hacker News (https://news.ycombinator.com) does not format correctly on Firefox for Android. It requires horizontal scrolling. The website displays correctly on other mobile browsers such as the DuckDuckGo browser.
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Mike D
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I figured out the solution to this problem. My Android Accessibility settings had the font size set to the maximum. Once I moved it down one tick, the site looks fine.

Paul
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Glad to hear this is resolved, thank you for letting us know.