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It is annoying that FR will not “flow” in resizing in some browsers including Safari in iOS.

One “workaround” technique that help although not optimal (and you probably have already tried this — but I am just laying it out for others perhaps who might not have found this):

(1) “Double tap” in the text of the post listing or of the article, and it will automatically enlarge the text just the right amount to make that column fill across the screen.

This trick works on many web pages, for example, Drudge Report also to make a single column fill across. Then you can scroll up and down with only that column. You can still pan right and left dragging, but it “sticks” a little making just up and down scrolling precisely on that column pretty easy.

(2) If that is not big enough, then at that point turn the iPhone sideways, and the column width you just picked will expand even more. It will continue to “stick” lightly permitting accurate scrolling up and down without wandering right and left unless you push it that way a bit more.

You probably will be able to read it then, although it is annoying sideways that it shows less lines at once.

Thoughtful readers like Freepers like to go back and re-read things sometimes, and when a lot fewer lines are showing, you have to scroll, and you lose track of where you were at. However I usually can see the text well enough to read it.

On many web pages in Safari iOS there is a “reader view available” — it tells you that in the URL address field and if you click the upper left icon (that looks line little lines in a box) you will get a very easy-to-read single column. However, FR does not allow that — it uses a non-flowing layout that the iPhone does not decode for reader view.