It's not like I was missing out on a good conversation but that's just embarrassing.
please hold, mk will be with you shortly He helped me last time I had a similar problem.
UPDATE: Did a min-width thing on mobile per insomniasexx's suggestion. It's a much lesser evil.
So it probably works well on most themes. Spring is a little janky for obvious reasons. I haven't looked on my actual phone yet. Would it be more or less janky with a background-color: white on it? White being the background color of the .middlepage link to that thread: 
The fact that most threads don't go that deep is the only reason that we hadn't fixed it before. It's a hard problem to solve. Both Hacker News and Reddit have links to read more. I believe Paul Grahams reasoning was that very rarely to productive conversations happen that deeply and so hiding them and/or making it harder to view was actually a benefit to the community. I'm not so sure that's the case here, at least not that I've seen.