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**** Updated Smartphone Feedback Thread ****

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#1 · (Edited by Moderator)
Thread Title: Updated Smartphone Feedback Thread

We're pleased to announce that we have launched a new smartphone view on the site, in addition to the recently added mobile view in the last upgrade. This version has been designed to have a cleaner look, to fit really nicely into mobile (iPhone, Android) browsers, and unlike most normal web based skins will also include features that are normally reserved for desktop or phone applications. We built this as we realize you all spend more time today on your phones on the forum than you did 2 years ago, and we want to get the mobile view to a place where you can do everything (and more!) that you can do on desktop.

A few notes as I know many of you may have questions:

* This does not replace the free or paid in-apps that you have, such as any mobile apps. This is web-only.
* This new skin will only show when you access the site from a modern (Android 4+, iPhone) phone. It will not show for older phones or for tablets, blackberries or windows phones.
* Please give us some time as we work through bugs. Give it a try, give us feedback in our mobile thread url, and give it a chance. Every change needs time to get used to!​


If you visit the site from your mobile phone, you'll get the new view automatically. You can login, post, reply, upload photos, view your private messages and more. You can also use the legacy mobile view by choosing the top left menu and Exit Enhanced Mobile Mode.

The feedback thread for any bugs, etc, please post below.

**Please let use know the device, software version, and browser being used if reporting any issues.

Thanks!
 
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#32 ·
Not a fan of the banner ad at the bottom but I understand the need.

I don't like that there's not a back button. I like going to "latest" and when I click on a thread that's good but I have to go to the "latest" link again instead of just being able to hit "back" to leave a thread. I don't like having to wait for it to run the search again for me each time.
 
#33 ·
The page issue was fixed for awhile but now I'm having a new issue. When I try advance a page, it won't work. I'll try to go from page 1 to page 2. It SAYS I'm on page 2, but the page doesn't actually change. I have to go to page 3 and then back to page 2.
 
#35 ·
God, now it is switching automatically to the new flashing version. I keep switching back to the basic mobile site and it doesn't matter. It takers forever to load, and now even longer since I have to switch back every single time I go to the main page. Please don't make the new "enhanced" version the only version. I like and want basic. I want to read content, not have content dance around my screen.
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#36 ·
Mine switches as well, it jumps from the new to the old and back to the new all the time. I found the only way to fix it is to use the desktop version, which is a bit of a pain.
 
#37 ·
Mine keeps switching, too. This is REALLY annoying. I can't even get to the regular full site, which, even though it's a bit of a pain, is MUCH better than this "enhanced" mobile version.
 
#40 ·
Mine has stabilized now. Had to switch to the full site, then it switched itself back to the regular mobile view.

I'm on an iPhone 4 with the iOS 7.2.1.
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#44 ·
I still hate the new version, no matter how many times it self loads. Now it has quit that but I am getting really really frustrated that I get a pop up EVERY TIME I wake up my Safari tab, and this is running in ths background. It is very frustrating. I tried it, I don't like it, i don't want it, and I don't want to be offered it multiple times a day
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#45 ·
Now that I've had a chance to use the new version on my Galaxy S4 for a while, I like it. I don't have any issues with ads taking up the screen either. I'm using Google Chrome. Maybe it would be a bigger issue is I had a smaller screen size, but it isn't on my phone.
 
#47 ·
I don't like it. I loved that every forum was on the main page, not just what's there now.
I'm trying to go back now and only the main page will, as soon as I go to recent posts it comes back to the new version. I definitely prefer the older layout to this one.
 
#48 ·
Today it is forcing me to use the new version, everytime I say 'no thanks' and go back to the old view, I ask for subscribed threads, and it takes me to this new version, which I still hate. If this is going to be the only version that is allowed on the mobile version fine, I'll not use it, but having both and getting stuck in the loop between the two is intensely frustrating
 
#49 ·
I've given up trying to log in on my phone. It forces me in this horrible loop, and whenever I try to use the new version it keeps crashing on me. I hate it with a passion. So I no longer log in on my phone.

I really wish admin would say something on this.
 
#50 ·
I stay logged in on my iPhone, so I haven't experienced the loop. I do, however, have to keep saying no to trying the new mobile version every time I close down Safari and reopen it after a while. Not the end of the world, but definitely annoying.
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#52 ·
That's really weird. I have even switched to the full version to check my profile or "like" a post, and when I switch back it doesn't even ask if I want to try the new version. Maybe it senses that my old iPhone can't handle the new version. :lol:
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