Mabye you could describe what makes it so difficult to use? I don't browse forums from mobile devices.... Don't the kids today use the twitters for that?

I mostly browse Vogons from my android phone and I find it ok actually. I tend to zoom a lot because the characters are quite small but I'm used to it...

Kahenraz wrote:

This forum is very hard to use from a mobile device and it makes me less motivated to participate while on the go and away from a computer (as if our modern phones aren't computers, riiight? 🤣 🤣 🤣)

Has there been any consideration to address this?

Nobody asked me (fortunately), because I would actively prefer people not to use the forums on their mobile phones. 😀

Most crazy people who want to use forums on phones use Tapatalk or something.

I am not sure when Qbix is going to do the upgrade, but I know that he has been working on a style for the latest phpBB. It has a style that scales much better for mobile. If you want to get an idea of how well it scales you can take a look at my forums. http://sierrahelp.com/forums/

yeah mobile usage of the forum is not really great. Especially the little button to go to the last unread post of a thread is wayyyyyyyy too small 😀

It is a pain on mobile but hey it works on Windows 95.

collector wrote:

you can take a look at my forums. http://sierrahelp.com/forums/

Pages scroll a bit sluggish on my desktop. I hope that's not a feature?

oeuvre wrote:

It is a pain on mobile but hey it works on Windows 95.

And Windows 98SE (I browse this site on my Ultimate Windows 98SE machine).

vvbee wrote:

collector wrote:

you can take a look at my forums. http://sierrahelp.com/forums/

Pages scroll a bit sluggish on my desktop. I hope that's not a feature?

Scrolls fine here.

The only real problem for phones and 800x600px displays that I can see are those massive avatars......

collector wrote:

I am not sure when Qbix is going to do the upgrade, but I know that he has been working on a style for the latest phpBB. It has a style that scales much better for mobile. If you want to get an idea of how well it scales you can take a look at my forums. http://sierrahelp.com/forums/

True, I am getting help from Snover and it is in progress.

Qbix wrote:

collector wrote:

I am not sure when Qbix is going to do the upgrade, but I know that he has been working on a style for the latest phpBB. It has a style that scales much better for mobile. If you want to get an idea of how well it scales you can take a look at my forums. http://sierrahelp.com/forums/

True, I am getting help from Snover and it is in progress.

Just please don't make it worse for PC users. 😀

bjwil1991 wrote:

oeuvre wrote:

It is a pain on mobile but hey it works on Windows 95.

And Windows 98SE (I browse this site on my Ultimate Windows 98SE machine).

It also works on Windows NT 3.51 Workstation with Firefox 2.0.

(I know, not helping, but I just wanted to let people know what other old OSes can visit this site.)

dr_st wrote:

Qbix wrote:

collector wrote:

I am not sure when Qbix is going to do the upgrade, but I know that he has been working on a style for the latest phpBB. It has a style that scales much better for mobile. If you want to get an idea of how well it scales you can take a look at my forums. http://sierrahelp.com/forums/

True, I am getting help from Snover and it is in progress.

Just please don't make it worse for PC users. 😀

Yes, please. And don't use autodetection, I use a lot an android tablet with 10" screen and being redirected by default to mobile pages (that tend to be shitty as hell) is a real chore.

Or better yet: choose a theme style for an Android or iOS tablet or phone and keep the theme as-is for the desktop users. Some forums do have it where you can select a theme for better viewing on your mobile devices.

Snover just sent me this preview showing the current state of the new smartphone friendly forum UI!

Any thoughts?

ha ha

Dominus wrote:

ha ha

That one never gets outdated! 😁

shiva2004 wrote:

dr_st wrote:

Just please don't make it worse for PC users. 😀

Yes, please. And don't use autodetection, I use a lot an android tablet with 10" screen and being redirected by default to mobile pages (that tend to be shitty as hell) is a real chore.

Most properly coded “responsive” mobile/desktop design rely on the viewport width, and not on serving separate sites for mobile devices. And the page layout intelligently changes depending on whether you are on a really slim portrait mode device, a low resolution tablet, or a medium to large window on a desktop.

For a reference, see a forum I help run, Hydrogen Audio.

Also for reference, I mostly browse this forum in the down time at night, when I’m on my iPad. For that, in landscape mode, a desktop site such as this is mostly fine.

Fake edit: Jesus christ, nested quote limitations? If you’re going to do that kind of bullshit, could you please at least trim the nested quotes off before handing the post to me when I hit the quote button? That’s one feature you’ll never find turned on with any forum I run, because I just love seeing how pissed off some people get when the quoting gets nested ten or twelve levels deep. But at the same time, we also chew out people for quoting the post immediately above theirs, even if the forum gives that person a whole two hours to go and edit their post out from under the person who just replied to them.