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Just want to give a shoutout to whoever designed tildes for mobile
Was on my bathroom break and figured might as well try tildes on my phone.
Using iPhone 8+ and tried on firefox for iphone and safari.
Was pleasantly surprised how clean and fast it feels, everything was very responsive. It's well adapted to my phone screen size. The UI is clean and simple, it feels very familiar, gives the same feeling as tildes on desktop while keeping everything on a smaller screen. It's something that reddit never got right, the closest thing we had was reddit compact mode, but it wasn't nearly as good.
Fun fact: rather than having a separate mobile site, the source code for both the desktop and mobile layouts is identical. There are just some media queries to modify the layouts based on screen size. So you can resize your desktop browser window and see the mobile layout no problem, then expand the window again to get back to the desktop layout.
That's responsive web design! :)
This is actually how I designed my own website! CSS and HTML are both super powerful if you really dig into them. I wish more sites would try and use those over JavaScript wherever possible, since they're way lighter weight and there's less issues concerning security over unverified code running in your browser. Not to say JS doesn't have its place on the web, it could just be scaled back from the bloated behemoth it's turned into.
I never understood why simple HTML isn't used more. It's great, loads fast, and is simple enough that most computers/phones can handle it without issue.
Didn't you hear? HTML/CSS is sooooo last decade and everyone prefers to flip the web pyramid now. As a result the internet has become a bloated mess because of it.
Glad to see you understand what makes modern internet frustrating. I think it should be damn near illegal to rely on js so much for stability's sake.
Good to know! I hope as features are added in the future, it will keep its simplicity so display on smaller screen will not be cramped.
I believe that would be perfectly aligned with the ~ technical goals. Among the goals is having the web app be the primary mobile interface, so keeping the interface usable on mobile devices would be considered an important consideration when adding in any new features that could take up additional screen real estate.
"Phablet"
Everything is super responsive. Minimalism may not be "in" for forever, but regardless, that split second faster load time on everything makes me so happy.
I think that fast load times are always in style, it’s not the new hotness but it is way more accessible and users love that.
Best part so far: no ads or sponsored content! Would gladly pay to support once this takes off.
@cfabbro can't even click reply. I'm using android with Chrome. default internet app on Android is the one that won't even connect ; Chrome has all the other problems.
It's Android 4.4.4 galaxy grand max with Chrome (version 66.0.3359.158,should be up to date)
any guesses?
what mobile browser do you recommend?
Android Kit Kat 4.4.4 is 4 years old now. I know you're likely vendor locked to Kit Kat and can't upgrade it unless you use 3rd party firmware (which can be risky), however as it stands 4.4.4 might be causing some sort of conflict with the latest version of Chrome. You could try some alternate browsers to see if any work or even try rolling back your Chrome versions by hunting down an APK mirror... but unfortunately there is not really much we can do on our end since we don't have a Galaxy Grand Max to test on.
Sorry that I couldn't be more helpful. :(
Interesting. I'm surprised. I'll research some legitimate ways to upgrade. I imagine there won't be many, or else it would have happened automatically.
Love the simplicity.
I couldn't find a way of going to my account or settings though without manually going to ..../settings
EDIT: I think you can't access this from the home page, but if you navigate to a group or comment then in the top right you can click your own username.
it's so snappy on mobile too. I mean the site probably doesn't get slammed but I think the simplicity of it all helps a lot. I'm actually finding myself checking Tildes on my phone even though there's no app and I think that's a good sign for the site.
it is decent, but I noticed it is actually not working in some ways.
i cant connect on default browser. I need to use Chrome app.
i cant collapse comments.
i cant find a button for new posts.
The side bar button doesn't work, forcing me to use desktop view.
i cant vote on comments.
honestly, besides just reading and typing comments, i cant do much of anything. it's all quite clunky.
What phone OS/browser are you using? Because that's the first complaint about usability of the mobile site I have heard (other than the stupid Safari issues). Friggin' Safari is the new IE. Bloody Apple!
downloaded Firefox and now everything seems to work :]
well, sort of. some buttons are slow to respond.
That's good you got it working at least. But what phone OS/browser are you using though? Without telling us we can't troubleshoot the issue and solve it.
edit: NM I see your response at the bottom of the page... thanks. Now I can create and issue for it in gitlab and we can look into it further to try to figure out why it's not working.