Mobile Forums Usage

[Lucychan42]

If I'm not supposed to post here feel free to move my post or tell me where to put it.

The new forums isn't the kindest to mobile users, at least, not my own mobile (iPhone 5S, Safari browser). It's hard to read things with how everything is formatted, posting replies is awkward, it's hard to tell when a new post was made unless I check the times of the last post, and then some minor issues. I don't know much about coding so I feel bad for bringing it up when I can't help. If you're working on the design already then thank you! If not, then it's something I'd like to make known.

[UnknownMurder]

Seconded. I now rarely use mobile to reply on forum.

[Butterrobber202]

/Very/ True, I'm in the city of Boston this week(end) and I tried to use my iPhone to keep up-to-date and only got a headache. But, as I type this from one of the hotel's free computers it looks Amazing.

But I still want this to be somewhat fixed/improved because I use mobile devices like my iPad and iPhone to read and respond to the fourm while I am at School.

[Skull132]

Addressing this is going to be a little difficult. The key issue is, oh god the complexity of CSS and HTML templates ;-;

Right now, the layout is sized based on percentiles. On desktops, this works well and is actually very important so that no one gets stuck with super-massive layouts on a tiny monitor. However, on a tiny screen, that goes out the window and you probably want to use 100% of the space you have available to you (as opposed to < 80% we're using now). Unfortunately, there is only one master toggle.

Landscape view is functional, though, at least on my Android phone (+ chrome). Some screencaps would help me maybe understand what you mean, if the complaint is beyond just, "Sized in an awful ratio".

[Ian The Corgi]

Forget that, Aurora iOS and Android Apps!

[SierraKomodo]

Addressing this is going to be a little difficult. The key issue is, oh god the complexity of CSS and HTML templates ;-;

Right now, the layout is sized based on percentiles. On desktops, this works well and is actually very important so that no one gets stuck with super-massive layouts on a tiny monitor. However, on a tiny screen, that goes out the window and you probably want to use 100% of the space you have available to you (as opposed to < 80% we're using now). Unfortunately, there is only one master toggle.

Landscape view is functional, though, at least on my Android phone (+ chrome). Some screencaps would help me maybe understand what you mean, if the complaint is beyond just, "Sized in an awful ratio".

 

Typically you can get around this by, after definition your percentaged width, defining a minimum width. I.e.:

 

div#wrap {
width: 80%;
min-width: 800px;
}

 

That only solves the issue we may have with the theme going to 80% of a phone screen's width, though; I don't normally browse forums with a phone so I'm not sure what exactly it looks like.

[Skull132]

What I'm curious about. The two specific reports are from Apple users. Perhaps Safari reads shit as if you were on the desktop? Could one of you please post a screenshot of what it looks like.

[Dreviore]

On a fairly large screen android phone it looks alright.

Skull, pls make me not have to click twice to get to 'unread posts' though D:

[Guest Complete Garbage]

Here are a few. [They're quite large on my screen. If you want the link to the imgur album, http://m.imgur.com/lAOcEoj,JyOY2I2,6AOjcDu,nk8nptr,XTSBQZu,jB0dgMI,s8xSTSS,4JmPriF,NcanHjY ]