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Honestly I don't really understand what is going on there and what is the exact division between "desktop"/"mobile" on TL. Usually, there are two kinds of sites:
- the reasonable ones, where mobile and desktop versions have different URLs and I can simply choose which one I want to see
- the "user is an idiot" sites, that will choose it for you. However Opera Mobile allows to set the User Agent field so that I can pretend to be a desktop (or confes I am on mobile) and get the site I want to get.
However TL seems to taken this a step further, because what I see does not seem to depend on the setting, yet it is different from the desktop version. Moreover, it doesn't work at all (as I can't even login) and even logged out it has all kinds of content jumping around ...
So there are essentially two separated suggestions I have:
1. don't treat your users as children and let them choose what version of your site they see. This alone usually solves 99% of my problems, because typically when one version is totally broken, the other one isn't in at least one mobile browser at my disposal. Sometimes it's the mobile one, sometimes it's the desktop one.
2. If you are so mindful as to think about the mobile users, why don't you provide a really mobile site, that is a site that is mainly text, without fancy formatting, complicated conditions for positions of objects and mainly without stuff like the log-in overlay that is terribly broken (that is, where the log-in button leads to a new simple page that contains exactly two text labels, two text fields and a submit button)?
So far, this "improvement" has gone in exactly the expected direction of the 2015 internet - it looks better and it works worse. I really thought TL can do better.
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There aren't two versions, it's a single site that adapts to your screen width.
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On August 01 2015 22:22 R1CH wrote: There aren't two versions, it's a single site that adapts to your screen width.
OK, that explains a lot however I do note that it doesn't do a very good job in that, at least not on my phone. It would be nice if this feature could be disabled by an user (well, technically it would be useless now as I can't log on on mobile, but hopefully you will change that).
Also did you think about making a mobile version? I mean reading LR threads on the road is a great way to stay updated and entertained, it really fits well with mobile use.
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You can log in to mobile in a pretty round about way just by going to the forums, and going to the bottom of any thread.
It will tell you to Log in to comment. You can click on that to take you to a separate login form, which lets you log in to mobile
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On August 03 2015 17:48 XiaoXiaoo wrote: You can log in to mobile in a pretty round about way just by going to the forums, and going to the bottom of any thread.
It will tell you to Log in to comment. You can click on that to take you to a separate login form, which lets you log in to mobile
Thanks! Doesn't mean that the login should not be fixed though
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The forum sidebar button doesn't work on Chrome Android...
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On August 03 2015 20:54 Highways wrote: The forum sidebar button doesn't work on Chrome Android... works for me on nexus 7 tablet
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While we are whining about mobile problems (site update has really sped up my ability to browse
I still can't view the options to send my cohost a PM. Sooooooo...
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On August 03 2015 20:54 Highways wrote: The forum sidebar button doesn't work on Chrome Android...
It "works" in Opera Mobile in that it pops up and is visible, but covers all the buttons.
Really, dynamicly formatted websites are not good much for mobile browsing.
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if you are having problems with the sidebar buttons, try to refresh the site a few times. It may be a cache issue
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In my experience, the website just plain doesn't work on my phone or other mobile device... Tabs and such don't work, and it's very awkward/a hassle to use in general. I've stopped checking TL.net on my phone and just use liquidpedia.
I wish the website would have never undergone this change, or that we'd have an option to use it or stick with the old version.
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The menu button is not working on my Sony Xperia Z3, Chrome Browser, Android 5.0.2
The mobile site is completely unusable on the phone.
Was this site tested before getting released?
Should've used bootstrap if you want a proven framework for dynamic mobile pages.
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