Mahz

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There's still this misalignment issue, on the PC version no less. Encountered by editing a post, going to fullscreen, then back again.

@BBeast

I can't reproduce the issue on my end, but let's consider the fullscreen-editor an unsupported feature.

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Now that I'm home, I got to try the Guild on my iPhone (I almost never use my smartphone for web surfing). My thoughts: - The homepage is a hellish experience on a small device because of all the scrolling. Having to scroll the entirety of the Roleplaying category just to go between News and Off-Topic makes me feel like Odysseus trying to return home. - At the very least, I need to let users collapse/expand each category and then make the browser remember it. - I can't wait for the roleplaying/interest-check forums to be obsoleted by the tag system. Instead clicking/scrolling for eternity just to check out Nation RP checks, I should be able to land on the homepage, click "All Checks", and click once more to apply the "Nation" tag filter. No scrolling. Then uncheck "Nation" and check the "1x1" filter when I want to look for 1x1 checks. - Safari on iOS feels like Internet Explorer 5 in 2015. Can't even click the lil green top/bottom buttons in landscape mode (until I put a 20px margin between them and the edge of the screen). And in portrait mode, clicking the buttons open up Safari's status bar, so I have to click the green button again to let Safari know I indeed was interacting with the website I'm on. Feels like Clippy the Paperclip interrupting me. - I need to fit more forums on screen. There's just too much padding between elements. If a forum has a subforum, it's pretty much doubled in height. - I also need to auto-collapse the Who's-Online/Stats box. Mobile users can expand it if they ever want to make the page 2000px taller. - There need to be left/right buttons next to the top/bottom buttons for going to prev/next post. Then I stopped and decided to start working on addressing these issues.

Mahz's Dev Journal

@Mahz: Mobile version only. Desktop looks OK. I could zoom mobile version in, but I could not zoom out any farther than it started me out with. If I remember to, I'll check whether the anomaly is still there tomorrow and see whether I can screenshot it.

@Shienvien

Cool. I'm trying to figure out how I can add a button somewhere that lets you toggle between the two polar device-width and fully zoomed-out scales. I think being able to easily toggle this will offer best of both worlds to mobile users as the desktop-scale is more reliable. As usual, my job here is never done. Like most things on the Guild, the experience will get better over time as I kinda chip away at it all. I'll be using the Guild via my iPhone as much as possible to try and smooth things out.

Mahz's Dev Journal

Text is easily three-four times the size I normally have it on mobile version

@Shienvien

This is blowing my mind. So you're saying that every post on the guild now has massive text and there's nothing you can do about it? Can you even zoom it? Is it possible for you to take a screenshot?

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Mobile changes are great. Functions much better, despite what some people might say. Yes, everything is bigger and it takes more scrolling to see a whole thread, but that's for the best (because goddamn buttons were small before).

@Hank

Would it help if, when viewing a topic, there were buttons (next to the Top/Bottom buttons) that quickly jump to previous/next post?

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@LegendBegins: Just shrunk the pagination buttons.

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@LegendBegins Alright, think I fixed the userbar-wrapping issue by just displaying "You" instead of username for now. Does it still wrap for you now?

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<Snipped quote by Mahz> Yes, it does. iPhone 5, latest version of iOS 8. And there's been a problem with the screen not automatically zooming to fit the size of my device. It's slightly bigger, which forces me to zoom out in order for it to lock in place.

@LegendBegins

Thanks, I see what you're talking about -- the pagination and the userbar are wrapping in that shot. I'll play with some fixes right now. Didn't even think of usernames longer than "Mahz". Four-letter name privilege.

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Is there ever any chance of an increase in subscription cap? I like the new look, but I really do hope that there never ends up being a big, obtrusive sidebar or anything similar. Those buttons in the corner seem fine, but anything more might be painful...

@Tatsua Aiisen

I'll double the cap when I get back to my place tonight. Can you explain what you mean by "a big obtrusive sidebar or anything similar" or the buttons you're referring to? Where?

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i was adding tags and the site wouldn't let me choose 5 even though its the max? i mean it doesn't matter much now, but just wondering if that's a bug on my end:0

@LetterA

Think I just fixed it. Confirm?