GFSA on mobile sucks.

ezietsman

This is a general plea for a responsive site. This forum is unusable on a smartphone. What would it take to make this happen? It'll need a tweak to the theme so that elements will stack when the screen gets narrower. Images also needs to follow their parent sizes, at the moment they have fixed widths.

I'm willing to offer help in this regard.

Hasie

Yep. And I do most of my forum reading and posting from my phone.

Bootstrap is a good "front-end" framework (CSS and JS) that scales to screen size and works like a charm in keeping things tidy on the screen.

I am a PHP developer, so I can also help out a bit.

ezietsman

Hasie wrote: Yep. And I do most of my forum reading and posting from my phone.

Bootstrap is a good "front-end" framework (CSS and JS) that scales to screen size and works like a charm in keeping things tidy on the screen.

I am a PHP developer, so I can also help out a bit.

PHP dev here! Good cuz I'm a not-PHP dev but I can navigate css files a bit (not much).

I'm sure a lot of people here will want to see the site on their phones because some places block sites like these so people use 3G to get their GFSA fix every now and again. ?

Hasie

ez wrote:
Hasie wrote: Yep. And I do most of my forum reading and posting from my phone.

Bootstrap is a good "front-end" framework (CSS and JS) that scales to screen size and works like a charm in keeping things tidy on the screen.

I am a PHP developer, so I can also help out a bit.
PHP dev here! Good cuz I'm a not-PHP dev but I can navigate css files a bit (not much).

I'm sure a lot of people here will want to see the site on their phones because some places block sites like these so people use 3G to get their GFSA fix every now and again. ?

Yep. Do the C++ thing as well - if the forum needs some intense batch processing. Python is also not a problem.

Chabenda

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psyx

Some big IT guns blazing here ?

Wizard

Agreed.

I used to be very active on this forum when a PC was my main interface with the interwebs.
Since largely shifting to a phone for social media I've noticed (not actively decided) that I never come here from phone.
Just doesn't work.

By contrast, FB does just fine on phone relative to its web interface.

(typing this from PC)

Heath

Tapa talk works well on the forum

ezietsman

Tailon. wrote: Tapa talk works well on the forum

That's prob the easiest ???

NorioDS

Hi fellas,

I'm a CSS, PHP, MySQL, etc expert. Been doing it 15 years. I know what needs to be done, just haven't had the time to do it.

When I first did some work to improve the mobile responsiveness of the site (yes it was once even worse!), I sacrificed some bits in order to get something working up and running as quickly as possible. Those sacrifices are what you guys are noticing now.

The best way forward will probably be to upgrade SMF as newer versions are quite mobile responsive.

That's a huge undertaking, though, because this is a biggish forum and I get an ear-load when the slightest thing is broken. So I'm not prepared to do it until I can dedicate the necessary time to the task and to fixing any bugs that pop up afterwards.

So in the meanwhile, I can tweak little things. Like the image width issues, missing navigation, etc.

To help me in that regard, each member can post ONE problem on mobile that stops them from using it. Include a screenshot from your phone. Also include the URL of the page the screenshot is from.

So let's start there.

Rules: One bug per person; each report MUST have a screenshot and URL where the bug was encountered.

Whatever comes up most often will be fixed first.

And go!

ezietsman

Norio wrote: Hi fellas,

I'm a CSS, PHP, MySQL, etc expert. Been doing it 15 years. I know what needs to be done, just haven't had the time to do it.

When I first did some work to improve the mobile responsiveness of the site (yes it was once even worse!), I sacrificed some bits in order to get something working up and running as quickly as possible. Those sacrifices are what you guys are noticing now.

The best way forward will probably be to upgrade SMF as newer versions are quite mobile responsive.

That's a huge undertaking, though, because this is a biggish forum and I get an ear-load when the slightest thing is broken. So I'm not prepared to do it until I can dedicate the necessary time to the task and to fixing any bugs that pop up afterwards.

So in the meanwhile, I can tweak little things. Like the image width issues, missing navigation, etc.

To help me in that regard, each member can post ONE problem on mobile that stops them from using it. Include a screenshot from your phone. Also include the URL of the page the screenshot is from.

So let's start there.

Rules: One bug per person; each report MUST have a screenshot and URL where the bug was encountered.

Whatever comes up most often will be fixed first.

And go!

Thanks a lot Norio! Wee!

I'll use it a bit later on my phone and post my biggest gripe.

ezietsman

From:

http://www.guitarforum.co.za/classifieds-general/fender-50th-anniversary-classic-50s-stratocaster-mim-aztec-gold-w-hard-case

Problem:

The left and right panels do not stack elegantly on a narrow screen. They keep the wide-screen layout which wastes valuable width.

I have more if you'd like ?

NorioDS

This is helpful, thanks!

Yeah, screw it, go ahead and post the rest ?

Bug reports with screenshots and URLs are SO much more useful than without.

ezietsman

I'll add some more with screenshots later when I'm home.

It's mostly do to with elements that are horizontally spaced on a wider screen that doesn't gracefully collapse on narrow screens. Also images that have fixed sizes instead of following the parent element's width.

And the menu. I'll post more details later.

Hasie

Thanks Norio. The menus don't display on my phone. I have another one, if you want it.

NorioDS

Dude, why is your background black and the link colours yellow?

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Hasie wrote: Thanks Norio.
The menus don't display on my phone.

I have another one, if you want it.

Hasie

Norio wrote: Dude, why is your background black and the link colours yellow?

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Hasie wrote: Thanks Norio.
The menus don't display on my phone.

I have another one, if you want it.

High Contrast accessibility setting on Windows Phone. Looks like that on my PC as well. The forum actually deals well with this setting, all buttons are displayed, etc. Just some of the emoticons do not display in the post editing "toolbar". There are sites like soundcloud that does not handle this setting correctly and the buttons are nowhere to be found.