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Offline MK-84

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Re: Mobile friendly bbs
« Reply #15 on: December 13, 2012, 09:33:45 PM »
I use the native browser in my driod,  motorola electrify. 

The main problem is entering text. The forum displays exactly like it does on my computer,  which is ok I guess,  but it doesn't size to my screen and still remain large enough to prevent my having to slide the screen around to read or look at pictures. 

Check out some other forums using Tapatalk or ones that use vbulletin and you'll immediately see the difference.  Both those are incredibly functional on phones for forums.  Tapatalk is an app you have to buy. But vbulletin is native to the forum.  It's excellent as well.  Makes reading and looking at pics and replying extremely easy. 

Tapatalk is the best though.  It even updates you on your phone when someone replies to a topic you're subscribed to, as well as grouping new posts since your last visit, and threads you've replied to.  It's just incredibly functional and intuitive.

This forum is just much clunkier and more difficult to navigate and use than either of those other options. 

Not that this doesn't work,  it does,  I'm on it now,  it's just much more of a hassle than it needs to be.  Especially when the phone is your only option and you can't just go to the pc.

I'd love to be on the forums again more, but like this it's annoyingly difficult,  when it really doesn't need to be.



Your native web browser is chrome.  You should be able to "double tap" the screen to have it zoom in on text. It does not wordwrap perfectly in AH but it comes reasonably close.  Pictures are a different story, those you will have to scroll around quite a bit.