It's a pain to read and contribute to HN using a phone. Adding fairly minimal CSS styles to the site can't be terribly difficult to very simply optimize display on mobile.<p>Why hasn't it been done? Is it en route?
AFAIK, there's no plan to implement this.<p>You could however, make the modifications and submit them to PG to include on the site instead of waiting for someone else to do it. You'll need to download Arc (<a href="http://arclanguage.org/" rel="nofollow">http://arclanguage.org/</a>) -- the code which runs HN is a tweaked version of 'news.arc'.<p>There's also an Arc fork on GitHub: <a href="https://github.com/nex3/arc" rel="nofollow">https://github.com/nex3/arc</a><p>Up-to-date directions for setting up Arc can be found on the Arc wiki: <a href="https://sites.google.com/site/arclanguagewiki/" rel="nofollow">https://sites.google.com/site/arclanguagewiki/</a>
There are a couple alternate websites for mobile optimized HN, as well as like 10 iOS apps and 10 android apps.<p><a href="http://ihackernews.com/" rel="nofollow">http://ihackernews.com/</a>
<a href="http://hn.gethifi.com/" rel="nofollow">http://hn.gethifi.com/</a><p>or search your app store.<p>There have been many requests to update/improve the actual website and none get acknowledged.