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Site Information => Site News and Feedback => Topic started by: cephalopod on April 14, 2014, 05:00:37 AM
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This thought has been playing on my mind for some time. The current mobile site is pretty bad in my opinion and browsing on a mobile is sometimes quote tricky, although this may just be me.
Is there any way we could make the site friendlier to mobile? I know a lot of forums use that Tapatalk thing but I don't know much about it.
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I agree that GTM is hard to navigate on mobile devices but I don't think Tapatalk is the answer. I did some research into them around this time last year but decided not to use them for a number of reasons. One of the biggest reasons for me not liking them at the time was that they required you to have the paid app in order to post new content. This changed towards the end of last year but Tapatalk Inc didn't show very much loyalty to the customers that had paid for the now free app (IIRC, the new paid app just removes their watermark). The software itself also requires code that bypasses many of SMF's security features. Not to mention, many of GTM's features wouldn't be accessible from within the Tapatalk app.
I could probably make the site more mobile-friendly by creating a new stylesheet and/or modifying the existing ones but I'd prefer to wait on that until I have more time. IRL, I am a mobile app developer so another option would be for me to write an iOS/Android app for GTM but that would probably take even more time...
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its decent on my iphone, could be a lot worse. i dont see the need for a mobile website.
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Yeah, I noticed that stuff about Tapatalk when I looked into it some time ago.
I'm not bothered if nothing changes, but I moved Blood Brothers to signups and edited the relevant posts in Management on my mobile earlier which took a hugely long time really, just thought I'd mention it to see what people think.
Also, I had no idea you were an app dev, that's pretty cool.
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its decent on my iphone, could be a lot worse. i dont see the need for a mobile website.
But anyone without a smartphone will tell you that the mobile version sucks. Plus you're just disagreeing because you dislike Craaig.
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its decent on my iphone, could be a lot worse. i dont see the need for a mobile website.
even on a smartphone its difficult cause you need small thumbs, just a little like button to scroll on different pages of threads would change my situation ten-fold
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i think its fine honestly, you just gotta zoom in to click something. ive gotten used to it.
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its decent on my iphone, could be a lot worse. i dont see the need for a mobile website.
But anyone without a smartphone will tell you that the mobile version sucks. Plus you're just disagreeing because you dislike Craaig.
it doesnt suck to me, but im used to browsing websites like this on my mobile. Im not disagreeing because i dislike craaig, while its true that a hate craaig im not disagreeing because i hate craaig
also what scrap daddy said
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while its true that a hate craaig im not disagreeing because i hate craaig
Dude, please, I don't mind if you dislike me, everyone's entitled to their opinions (although I don't know your reasons) but if you can keep personal stuff like this out of main forum that'd be cool.
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trying to quote is abysmal, and posting links is retardedly difficult
a mobile site would be nice
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It's not bad with smartphones; however if you choose to implement it, please wok on it AFTER the bot exchange.
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The only time i feel the need to check GTM on my mobile is when I post a new bot and want to read the replies. This doesn't happen very often.
Point being, can't you guys just wait to use your computer?
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The only time i feel the need to check GTM on my mobile is when I post a new bot and want to read the replies. This doesn't happen very often.
Point being, can't you guys just wait to use your computer?
i use my gs5 more than i do my laptop, which is only used for writing papers because its so damn old all it can do properly is ms word and i dont want to get a new one because im poor and i dont need to go into student loan debt
hell if my TI inspire could go online i'd use that too
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can't you guys just wait to use your computer?
My stance on this issue^
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I use GTM on mobile much more then I do on a desktop.. infact im doing it right now.
I usually prefer not to have mobile sites.. I usually switch on "view in desktop mode" for most
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I tend to use desktop and zoom in for buttons. Its not like zooming in is a pain