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#1 | Improved display on Smart Phones datum

Thu Jun 14, 2018 9:34 am

I have an Android (Samsung Galaxy Note 8). On the old forum, the display on the screen was acceptable. I could actually read it.
The new software defaults to a very small font; and it requires a much broader screen (landscape rather than portrait).
It would be better for me to have an option for the font size.
If there is an adjustment, using either IE or Chrome, that is well and good - but they only really apply to the computer or tablet.
The phone is an entirely different thing.
Any hints, or directions to make the phone display larger would be great.

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#2 | RE: Improved display on Smart Phones datum

Thu Jun 14, 2018 1:30 pm

Hello Aussi import,

Unfortunately, I can not change the font size for the forum.

I myself seldom use mobile devices for the forum. Should I still use my mobile phone, then I turn off the mobile version, because this is really very bad to read.
After starting the forum in the mobile version I always scroll down and turn off the mobile view.

Sorry, but I can not do more for you, maybe it helps a little bit.

Regards,
Holger
Moderator and Admin

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#3 | RE: Improved display on Smart Phones datum

Thu Jun 14, 2018 1:57 pm

Zitat von Aussie Import im Beitrag #1
I have an Android (Samsung Galaxy Note 8). On the old forum, the display on the screen was acceptable. I could actually read it.
The new software defaults to a very small font; and it requires a much broader screen (landscape rather than portrait).
It would be better for me to have an option for the font size.
If there is an adjustment, using either IE or Chrome, that is well and good - but they only really apply to the computer or tablet.
The phone is an entirely different thing.
Any hints, or directions to make the phone display larger would be great.

AI, it is not so much a question of changing font size as it is changing layouts to suit the platforms on which the web content is delivered. Have a read of this on responsive web design (RWD) � it is pretty technical but I believe that it is explained well enough that the layperson can understand the concept. You may have noticed that some pages when viewed on a computer are laid out better / wider than when viewed on the phone, and a lot of that depends on the OS of the phone too, but the phone's browser can display the same web page in such a way that the frames are arranged in a longitudinal array as opposed to a wider more content-loaded display.

For a web designer, to switch over to RWD has its plusses and minuses, one of the minuses being the investment in training on responsive web design coding. In the past you could often go to the bottom of the page and see a link to "Mobile-friendly version" or something like that where the web designer would have to create two versions of the website - a lot of work if the content is frequently changing. Now with RWD there is no need to have two different versions, just the one adaptable version.

Then there is BBS software which is typically written in PHP and is very dynamic in nature. BBS design, as far as I can see, typically lags the cutting edge when it comes to newer technology such as RWD and it could be that the design of the old forum was such that it just happened to scale better to the smaller portrait orientation of a phone.

Regards,
Grumpy Goat
Moderator

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#4 | RE: Improved display on Smart Phones datum

Thu Jun 14, 2018 4:24 pm

Zitat von Holger im Beitrag #2

After starting the forum in the mobile version I always scroll down and turn off the mobile view.

Is there a way to save this setting? I have to do it every time I open the forum with my phone.

Lee
2016 R1200RS
Iowa, USA

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#5 | RE: Improved display on Smart Phones datum

Thu Jun 14, 2018 5:27 pm

Never mind.
On my phone I set it to Desktop View and saved it to my home page.
I deleted the old mobile view short cut.

Lee
2016 R1200RS
Iowa, USA

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#6 | RE: Improved display on Smart Phones datum

Tue Jul 31, 2018 1:49 am

I find the new forum software to be very unfriendly to my Samsung Galaxy Note 8.

Now, this is a BIG phone, and the text on this forum is far less visible to me than the software on the Old RS forum.

I now find that I am very unlikely to browse the forum on my phone; and that was one of the primary access points I had used previously.

While I do sit at a computer for too many hours a week, generally I am working and I don't give the forum a second thought. It is only when the pressure eases up that I can think of the forum.

However, the display is so small, so hard to read, and so unfriendly that it becomes a chore, not a pleasure.

I would like to apologize to anyone I have NOT offended. Please be patient. I will get to you shortly.

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#7 | RE: Improved display on Smart Phones datum

Tue Jul 31, 2018 1:56 am

Zitat von Lee im Beitrag #5
Never mind.
On my phone I set it to Desktop View and saved it to my home page.
I deleted the old mobile view short cut.

This only worked for a few days :(

Lee
2016 R1200RS
Iowa, USA

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