EventGhost

I am wondering what users are seeing when access the EG forum from a device other than a PC.
In particulate what the layout looks like and the usability in on a mobile device.

I use Android and have found recently that it is hard for me to reply or create posts using Android & Chrome from my phone.
Layout seems wonky. Like it's a PC desktop view. Not mobile. It works well enough.
Just is harder for me to see/navigate/input text/submit etc. See below sample.

I am assuming now... That I/we have not had many complaints concerning the forum being hard to use via mobile.

Does anybody here have any issues using the forums with a mobile device?
If so could you post some details. Maybe screen shots.

I don't know exactly our back end at the what, if any, mobile optimization is going on now.
But if others have the same usability issues I see I would like to look into fixing them.

Thanks all.
Ian
aka Carl... a Groundskeeper

I'm looking into my EG.net mobile on android experience (it isn't good for me lol).

A Google search of phpbb mobile images shows me these... On my phone I see this at EG.net... and this is a reply page... If I try to type a long reply the layout and draft/submit/preview and other buttons, the curser, and the lower words get real hard to make out or manipulate.
It just sucks... sometimes nearly impossible to use/type/see text... Our phpbb template is supposed to support mobile.
Doesn't seem like it for me.
Anybody else have mobile issues?

PS... who ever suggested and did the work on changing the way we share and upload images around here... THANK YOU!!!!! So much better/simpler (I think) doing it direct and not have to use 3rd party hosts. Or second. What ever.

I bumped up the number of images and the sizes. because 3 at 1mb was really a pain.

and yes the mobile version of the forum sucks. or rather the lack of a mobile version. the page formatting is all messed up.

I am going to look into the double logging in problem on desktop google chrome as well.

I don't know what is worse having to dive into 3 layers of keyboard to get to the []'s or having to zoom in to click the code button.

I can take a look see at why the mobile version is not working properly


***EDIT*** there is no mobile version installed

hey. I can very easily add a mobile version with auto detection if ya want. should only take a few minutes.

I am in the process of backing up the whole site now. 9000+ files. so it's going to take a little bit. there are 6000 left to go.

I believe I may have found out what is causing the double login issue.

this issue i believe only happens to those that use eventghost.org. this is because phpbb is only able to handle one set of cookie data for one domain. and because the incorrect cookie data is being sent for users that use eventghost.org it does the double login.

what I am assuming is that eventghost.org is a pointer to the server. so what we need to do is I have to edit the .htaccess and create a new rule that if someone is connecting from eventghost.org it will do a redirect to eventghost.net and then the proper cookie data will be passed.

shall i go ahead and fix this as well?

Yes Please.
Yes Please.
& Yes Please.

I didn't notice a double log in deal.
But if you say so. I trust the K.


I am really surprised we have not (that I know of) many complaints about the lack of mobile support.

The funny thing is... when I have the choice on my device of mobile or desktop... I usually go with desktop. lol
More features/room. I normally dislike mobile.

Maybe we shouldn't... But I say do it.
Make it so Kevin.

And it should go without sayin'... Thanks Pally.
Ian

Well it can always be undone

Nice.
Looks good to me.

Will try it for a while.
Your awesome K!

I like the layout.. it's a perfect for navigating the forum with a single finger

but there are a couple of changes I am going to change.

get rid of the link to use the mobile version if you are on a desktop.
show the link to run the mobile version if you are on a tablet. and default to the desktop version of the site. I am almost done setting up a complete duplicate of the whole EG website so i can test these things out and so i can also have someone else test it as well.

I have been been doing a lot of reading of the code. and the mobile version seems to rely on how the user agent is set. and this has to be the worst way to tell if a device is mobile or not. so i am going to ditch that mechanism for a more robust means of checking