#4570 Social/share buttons severely compromises UX on iOS

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Bug is on live Slashdot website. All articles affected, so no need to provide specific URL. Browser: iPhone/Safari, iOS5, with Slashdot "Mobile" or small screen setting.

Description(s) of bugs:
The recently-added social/sharing buttons for Facebook, Twitter and Reddit make reading on iOS extremely frustrating. Moderating/"Read rest of comment" is also impossible now.

These buttons appear whenever finger-scrolling. When the finger is released, share buttons disappear, but Slashdot now also interprets this as "finger up" as a tap on that spot on the screen. Since Parent and Reply links now go to separate pages on iOS (and other mobile devices?), this means in a long discussion, I can be scrolling down and accidentally trigger these links, which now loads new pages (it used to load in-line using Javascript/AJAX) if I don't kill the page request in time. When I hit back to return to the original page, I've now lost my place in the discussion if I've expanded any nested comments.

Long comments with a "Read rest of comment", and the moderation drop-down, no longer work because the "share" button elements somehow prevent user taps from being recognized by these UI elements.

Been a member of Slashdot since the late 90s, have even kept the advertising on even though I have the option to turn it off. This is most mind-bogglingly frustrating thing I've ever encountered using Slashdot though, all for the sake of a feature I'll never use and can't even disable. So, advertising will be disabled until I can actually use Slashdot on my phone again.