Making DW more mobile-friendly
If you've been finding it hard to get into Dreamwidth as a platform because of its performance on mobile, consider trying the Coexistence Alpha CSS patchset by solarbird. I've been using it, and I am pleasantly surprised by how much better it made things look on my phone. The style I was using before looked similar to Coexistence Alpha on my laptop, but on mobile it was a mess. Coexistence Alpha is intended to get rid of horizontal scrolling (e.g., because of larger images or deep comment threads) and weird zoom issues on mobile. Compare a post on my journal with the site default skin on this dw_news post.
But 7iris, you might be saying, screw the people looking at my journal, I want to have a more mobile-friendly experience while looking at other people's journals. Or, if you're logged in, the posts you linked look exactly the same to me.
Fun fact: Logged-in users can override the style of any journal or entries they're looking at.
This means that if you apply Coexistence Alpha to your journal, DW can show you everyone's entries in that style. (And if my post and the post look the same to you, you may have already turned on the option to see everything in either your style or one of the default site styles -- try looking at those posts when you're logged out.)
If you don't have a DW account (or don't want to log in on mobile), or you don't like the look of Coexistence Alpha, you can try the "light style". If the journal owner hasn't disabled the navbar at the top of the journal there should be a link that says Reload page in style: light Click that and it will give you a stripped down, more mobile-friendly version of the page, and if you click through to any entries or comments from that page, it will keep the light styling on. If you don't see the navbar, you can also add ?style=light to any journal or entry adress to get the same effect, e.g., https://7iris.dreamwidth.org/26379.html?style=light. If you do have DW account, you can also choose to have DW show you all entries in a light style if you are logged in.
Light is a decent choice for mobile, but I do like Coexistence Alpha better overall. style=light won't rescale images, so you can still get horizontal scrolling annoyances if a post has a larger image, or if it has deep comment threads. Compare:
A text-only post on my journal in Coexistence Alpha vs. ?style=light
A post on my journal with a (SFW) image in Coexistence Alpha vs. ?style=light
That post (text only but deep comment threads) in ?style=light
If you haven't been thrilled with the mobile experience on Dreamwidth, and you spend a lot of time on mobile (or want your journal to be more mobile-friendly to others), I would urge you to try Coexistence Alpha out. It's not perfect, and there are still accessibility issues that this style does not resolve, but for me, it's better than the default options DW provides. solarbird has provided very basic instructions on how to apply that style, but I'll put some more detailed instructions behind the cut, as well as a couple of notes on what you can tweak, and how to apply your preferred style (Coexistence Alpha or otherwise) to other people's journals or entries.
Read the rest of the instructions on Dreamwidth.