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Comment by rhizome | Hacker News Reader

Tumblr and pinterest are adding a lot fewer users than I thought.

Both of them are terrible on mobile.

Pinterest is totally not transferable to small screen mobile devices. Its main point is to offer many images at a glance, which is impossible on small screen.

I encourage you to check out DRIFT[1]. You can browse the latest images for inspiration (á la Pinterest), and its responsive design scales from large-screen TVs to the smallest handheld devices.

[1] http://drift.io

Wow, and I always thought Pinterest was a smartphone app like Instagram. (Not interested in it so I never bothered checking)

There is a Pinterest iOS app but the web site is definitely the preferred way of using it. The phone app attempts to look like the web site but the layout doesn't transfer to the tiny iPhone screen very well and is not very nice to use because of this.

You should really check out Pinterest even if you aren't interested in the content -- the UI they have created is very slick and interesting.

The recently released Tumblr app for iPhone is not too shabby at all and is hopefully a step in the right direction for Tumblr on mobile.

On the flip side, the Facebook mobile experience is pretty terrible as well, but Facebook already has quite a large (and growing) user base already, so I wonder if mobile user experience is as important to growth as is existing, for lack of a better word, penetration.

EDIT: Just noticed this line from the post: "The Compete numbers are US only and desktop only."

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