mobile-friendly interface for forums?

[Johan Larson]

These forums are pretty hard to use on phone browsers. They just don't seem to have been designed for small screens.

I presume there have been proposals to do something about that. What's the state of play?

[Parody]

Historically: keep zooming. Thread 1 - Thread 2 - Thread 3

I don't find it that bad, using Opera (not Mini) on a Nexus 5.

[vicky_molokh]

Current version of Chrome works fine on my phone. Very slight weirdness with font sizes shows up rarely, and is easily fixed by zooming.

[Johan Larson]

Followed the links. Read the threads.

So if I understand this, supporting a better mobile interface would require you to install a software module for Tapatalk. This might take an hour if things go well or maybe a day if there is trouble. But supporting mobile platforms isn't enough of a priority to justify this time.

[RevBob]

Originally Posted by Johan Larson

So if I understand this, supporting a better mobile interface would require you to install a software module for Tapatalk. This might take an hour if things go well or maybe a day if there is trouble. But supporting mobile platforms isn't enough of a priority to justify this time.

There are other considerations, such as not chasing away people who despise getting the Tapatalk popup every time they visit a forum. (Note: I don't have a say in the decision, either way.)

[Buzzardo]

Originally Posted by RevBob

people who despise getting the Tapatalk popup every time they visit a forum

That'd be me. I can read the forum well enough on my Nexus 4 and perfectly well on my Nexus 10. Tapatalk and similar crap would not be an improvement.

[adm]

Originally Posted by RevBob

There are other considerations, such as not chasing away people who despise getting the Tapatalk popup every time they visit a forum. ...

That kind of thing gets old REAL fast.

[robkelk]

Originally Posted by RevBob

There are other considerations, such as not chasing away people who despise getting the Tapatalk popup every time they visit a forum. (Note: I don't have a say in the decision, either way.)

And since there's no version of Tapatalk for BlackBerry, that would make the forums unusable for me.

[Kuroshima]

Originally Posted by RevBob

There are other considerations, such as not chasing away people who despise getting the Tapatalk popup every time they visit a forum. (Note: I don't have a say in the decision, either way.)

Can't that be disabled? It's the most annoying feature of Tapatalk. Mind you, I like the app, but the popups are extremely annoying.

[Peter Knutsen]

The main problem for me is moving between pages in a thread. Those buttons labeled "2", "3" and so forth are extremely tiny on a 3.5" smartphone display. Everything else works fine, for reading. I don't see much point in writing replies, but it'd be useful if it was easier to follow threads from my phone.