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[techsavvy01]

Both taken care of. Hit report on stuff like that and we can clean them up for you.

Thank you [emoji2]

 

[Phases]

Ok, hopefully edit button is fixed for @badblue1 and others.

edit: p.s. thanks for the screenshots. Once we realized it was mobile only you were having trouble with it became a quick hunt.

 

[Unforgiven]

Ok, hopefully edit button is fixed for @badblue1 and others.

edit: p.s. thanks for the screenshots. Once we realized it was mobile only you were having trouble with it became a quick hunt.

(Previously) recognized theme developer @volimte21 mentioned in her thread she regained editing capabilities too. Whatever you are doing is helping many members. Thanks.

 

[Unforgiven]

I don't create a ton of threads, but I've created a couple today. I notice that while posts take fractions of a second to post, new threads are taking upwards of 60+ seconds. This may be part of why we are seeing so many duplicate threads.

 

[Unforgiven]

Two questions: Will we ever again have the option to *delete* our post, not just edit? (I tried to delete one of my duplicates...no luck.)

This functionality has been sufficiently abused by trolls to taunt and delete that I don't think it will be reenabled. That's my $0.02.

And can you add an option link, maybe at the bottom, to choose the full desktop site? I've looked everywhere from my android, running chrome, and even checking the option to request the desktop site yields no joy. If that can't be accomplished I'll probably just stop coming here on either of my smartphones, it's just too painful and time-consuming to navigate. And frustrating, too.

There is only a single skin that automatically optimizes for your screen resolution as far as I can tell. There is not a difference between mobile and desktop. If you zoom in the site on your desktop to roughly 500% you will see the mobile site really big on a laptop screen. I think this is part of HTML5.

 

[badblue1]

Ok, hopefully edit button is fixed for @badblue1 and others.

edit: p.s. thanks for the screenshots. Once we realized it was mobile only you were having trouble with it became a quick hunt.

Well, i hate to be the bearer of bad news .... so, i won't be proud to report that i now have a little toolbox with some goodies inside (an edit button and report)!!!!!yay Thanks for all the work you put in boss!

Now if i can get an editor, we're golden!

EDIT :and it works too!

 

[Phases]

This functionality has been sufficiently abused by trolls to taunt and delete that I don't think it will be reenabled. That's my $0.02.


There is only a single skin that automatically optimizes for your screen resolution as far as I can tell. There is not a difference between mobile and desktop. If you zoom in the site on your desktop to roughly 500% you will see the mobile site really big on a laptop screen. I think this is part of HTML5.

You can also just size down your browser Narrow it.

Well, i hate to be the bearer of bad news .... so, i won't be proud to report that i now have a little toolbox with some goodies inside (an edit button and report)!!!!!yay Thanks for all the work you put in boss!

Now if i can get an editor, we're golden!

EDIT :and it works too!

You don't have an editor? I've tested as you and you should.

 

[badblue1]

No editor, no way to post links, or change text to bold or colors, no smilies. Just a box, underneath is post reply, upload a file, which only takes me to quickpic to upload screenshots and a box says more options, which only allows to preview.

 

[Dpadre]

View attachment 77587 I have a bug. It may be my Windows OS that I am using, but it didn't do it before. Whenever I am in the forums and I click a topic ex, Android Applications, as I scroll down all the different threads, If I place my mouse over one, a pop up preview box comes up with the preview, but it never goes away and covers up all the threads above it making it impossible to read any threads underneath. I usually come here while I am at work and of course our IT department keeps everything unsafe locked away with no access, but they are always behind the curve on OS. We currently use IE 8. So as I float around work areas, all with their own Pc’s, they all use the same thing and I get the same preview overlap that won’t go away. Is it because the new forum is no longer backwards compatible to old IE 8 or is it a bug that everyone is experiencing? Is this the right place to report bugs? If not, please move it. Thanks


Anyone ?

 

[EarlyMon]

And can you add an option link, maybe at the bottom, to choose the full desktop site? I've looked everywhere from my android, running chrome, and even checking the option to request the desktop site yields no joy. If that can't be accomplished I'll probably just stop coming here on either of my smartphones, it's just too painful and time-consuming to navigate. And frustrating, too.

The interim answer is convoluted, and I apologize in advance.

Google has set guidelines that we have to care about to be listed properly in searches. We need that as we always have, to attract new members to a forum of trust and friendliness.

The new guidelines whack sites that respond to the user agent string for desktop or mobile.

The auto scaler is what they like and it's built in to Xenforo.

Phandroid, our Neverstill news site and how we came to be, has been using the single site, scaling approach for some time.

Xenforo has that built in - very appealing and the future of the Web.

Back to vBulletin - desktop view was pretty great. Did you ever try the mobile theme from the bottom left selection? It was a holy mess - looked like a teletype on drugs. So it wasn't nearly perfect either.

And there's the problem with one way, separate views - they aren't maintained equally for quality.

I'm with you - and Phases and I have gone long rounds on this - I prefer the desktop view.

But for that to truly work, you need zoom-able text flow in your browser. Android browsers use Google's mobile branch of the WebKit engine to handle display features like that. Google removed that feature over a year ago. I use Dolphin for that, they've custom coded zoom-able text flow to get around that.

And going that way makes us browser-specific instead of browser-independent as we need.

So the answer may be selectable themes courtesy of Xenforo plug-ins - they only have a zillion of them.

I can't predict the future decisions by the powers that be, but I think it's good to never say never.

Right now, we have to nail down and perfect the features you need on the theme we have.

In the meantime - I have grown to use an app + my mobile browsers to get around, as neither alone is satisfying for me.

Give that a try - our app really doesn't suck and combines well with a browser.

Check out "Forums for Android™"

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tapatalk.androidforumscom

 

[Unforgiven]

That sounds like an issue with IE8. Sorry I missed this earlier, I read it as Win8.

 

[Phases]

No editor, no way to post links, or change text to bold or colors, no smilies. Just a box, underneath is post reply, upload a file, which only takes me to quickpic to upload screenshots and a box says more options, which only allows to preview.

Oops I was assuming desktop again, you have it there. Something with that mobile browser. I toggled your rich editor, hope that helps..

.... etc...

@Dpadre, unfortunately I'm here to tell ya this site will not perform well on lower versions of IE. I don't expect this to change soon. As things calm down we may assign a designer to pulling up IE 8 and trying to find and fix some things but.. sadly this will be the case for many sites going forward, I think.

 

[EarlyMon]

@badblue1 - have you tried our app?

 

[badblue1]

@badblue1 - have you tried our app?

Not yet, maybe I'll try it out tomorrow, thanks.
Just wandered if you tried that phone you said you had running gingerbread?

 

[badblue1]

@Phases, nope still no editor.
See screenshot in above post.

 

[kate]

Web browser:

When in a forum and hovering over thread title to see a preview, if the thread is at the top of the page the preview appears above out of view instead of below the thread title.

 

[EarlyMon]

Not yet, maybe I'll try it out tomorrow, thanks.
Just wandered if you tried that phone you said you had running gingerbread?

qHD resolution and higher dpi - no issues but no correlation to your setup either.

 

[EarlyMon]

Call it what you may, but I see a *completely different* view when I log in from a pc (still a chrome browser). And what I see when I log in from the Windows smartphone (ie) is the same as the android, they are both different than a conventional desktop display.

If you see the same thing when you log in from a pc and from a smartphone, then you must have your Harry Potter wand.

And yet I typed such a cromulent reply to you.

 

[SuperR]

I don't have edit, report, or tools. Otherwise I am really starting to like to new forum. Thanks

My missing buttons have now appeared. Thank you

 

[Thatdad]

And yet I typed such a cromulent reply to you.

Hey EarlyMon, those pesky redirect links from tapatalk app are working now

 

[EarlyMon]

My missing buttons have now appeared. Thank you

Hey EarlyMon, those pesky redirect links from tapatalk app are working now

As my friend, Johnny T from Glove and Boots would say, "The Phaser has our backs, I like that, boom, done!"

 

[Thatdad]

As my friend, Johnny T from Glove and Boots would say, "The Phaser has our backs, I like that, boom, done!"

What exactly is the phaser?

 

[EarlyMon]

What exactly is the phaser?

http://androidforums.com/members/phases.275/

There can be only one.

 

[EarlyMon]

Which Droid? That looks like another screen resolution problem.

 

[dontpanicbobby]

I miss seeing the list of peoples phones and other devices.