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Would you contribute to upgrade the forum for a better mobile experience? - Z - 02-13-2017
What say you? Is improved mobile legibility / readability without pinching/zooming/rotating something you'd chip in to fund?
Re: Would you contribute to upgrade the forum for a better mobile experience? - Speedy - 02-13-2017
Works just dandy on my iPad 3!
Re: Would you contribute to upgrade the forum for a better mobile experience? - N-OS X-tasy! - 02-13-2017
Speedy wrote:
Works just dandy on my iPad 3!
+1.
A lot of sites with versions that purport to be better for mobile... aren't.
Re: Would you contribute to upgrade the forum for a better mobile experience? - The Grim Ninja - 02-13-2017
Phorum, the softer the Forum runs on doesn't have a mobile version. As far as I can tell, Phorum is no longer in development. My understanding is that Brian Moon, an employee at Dealmac, was a major developer of Phorum, it was sorta his pet project. Dealmac's shutdown of their forum probably killed the project for him. He was last active on the Phorum website in 2013.
If this forum is to be made mobile friendly, it'll probably require a lot more work than you realize. Alternately, the entire forum would need to be moved to new software, losing the entire archive of posts.
Re: Would you contribute to upgrade the forum for a better mobile experience? - mrbigstuff - 02-13-2017
I've made it work on my Android (4.3) by just double tapping to enlarge. It's a pain, no doubt, but I am so used to it after many years, that I don't think much of it. Of course, posting is a Royal PITA, so I do that on my laptop, as I am doing right now!
Re: Would you contribute to upgrade the forum for a better mobile experience? - Dennis S - 02-13-2017
It works fine on my iPhone 4S.
Re: Would you contribute to upgrade the forum for a better mobile experience? - rich in distress - 02-14-2017
I'll pay to not use tapatalk please.
Re: Would you contribute to upgrade the forum for a better mobile experience? - mattkime - 02-14-2017
I'd chip in. It seems that between a number of people here we should be able to make something happen. There are a number of things about Phorum that could be improved - and a number of them wouldn't take a hell of a lot of effort.
Mobile friendly styling would be a great step. So would emoji / utf8 support.
Re: Would you contribute to upgrade the forum for a better mobile experience? - wurm - 02-14-2017
I couldn't justify it, myself. I will go on this forum via phone only if I'm absolutely desperate. Otherwise, it can wait until I get to a real computer.
Re: Would you contribute to upgrade the forum for a better mobile experience? - Z - 02-14-2017
rich in distress wrote:
I'll pay to not use tapatalk please.
You don't enjoy the flaming wreck of constant updates and redesigns that Tapatalk is?
