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[Closed] Website redesign - Update

 Mark
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As you all know by now, yesterday we launched a new responsive website. Contrary to some comments we have been testing it quietly behind the scenes prior to yesterday's launch ๐Ÿ™‚

However, there's always bugs that only surface once you are live and it's those bugs that we are now working hard to fix. The iPad display bug is top of that list and I'll update you later when I have more to report.

So, sorry it's a bit buggy for some of you. We are working very hard to fix the new bugs.

[Mod Edit - please see previous discussion here, as any questions may already have been answered: http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/adaptive-stw ]


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 10:23 am
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Thanks for the update. The mobile version seems great on the iPhone.


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 10:24 am
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Oh! Hadn't noticed on my android phone


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 10:33 am
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It's great on an Android phone here, and last night on a Windows 10 desktop was flawless.
Great work!


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 10:36 am
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Thanks for the update, all good on my Android phone.


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 10:37 am
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Looks really good - much more usable on the iPhone than before. Looks better on desktop too.


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 10:37 am
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Loving it on windows phone. Much easier to read


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 10:39 am
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Chrome on Android phone. No zoom.


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 10:41 am
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Overall I love it, including the new green buttons. Only thing I miss is the pinch zoom on my android phone, it helps when looking at pic's and stuff.


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 10:42 am
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It looks great on most devices now but not all yet. We are working to fix that.

There's some design changes that will need to be made too. The fact the Forum overview button/link is not displayed when you are in a forum thread will be sorted soon. I know that makes navigation on a mobile easier. Plus we have a few ideas for improving the forum page layout on mobiles so you can get directly to the last page on the post, even when the forum thread title is truncated.

So, sorry for the glitches but please bear with us ๐Ÿ™‚


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 10:43 am
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Pinch-zoom on Android-Chrome...

Settings
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Force Enable Zoom


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 10:45 am
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And the zoom... ๐Ÿ™‚

Which still works in some browsers but not others. Safari works. Chrome doesn't. Definitely on the list.


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 10:45 am
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Well it's not working so well on my IPad. Those adds in the middle of the thread are very irritating. The zoom in n out does not seem to be working.

Happy Christmas.


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 10:45 am
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Thanks for the update.


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 10:46 am
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In chrome I'd previously set the default text size in accessibility, so the forum text is now the same as all other web content without needing to pinch zoom as with the old style forum code


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 10:50 am
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Is this the default issue reporting thread? Anyway, only thing I've noticed font sizes not being consistent in quote text on the mobile version, (which is what I'm getting when reducing the window size at work to be a bit discrete)


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 10:54 am
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As someone smarter than me posted on the other thread, in android chrome, go to settings, accessibility and select force pinch zoom to override the website settings.


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 10:56 am
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Is this the default issue reporting thread?

I have no idea. TBH, I think I'm going to say "yes" and close the other one. If nothing else the URL is a bit more obvious as to what it means (either that or the redesign has broken people's bloody eyes as well).


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 10:56 am
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there's always bugs that only surface once you are live
perhaps with very weird or unusual bugs, but there are plenty of services that will let you test across many devices. my developers only get away with saying "but there will always be bugs" once. Anyone who continually argues bugs are the norm gets shown the door!


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:00 am
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Poly's post on this thread is in a smaller font size than the rest...?

Also.. all the text is really quite big, with no option to make it smaller? It is larger than the default I have set in chrome (android)


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:01 am
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Contrary to some comments we have been testing it [b]quietly[/b] behind the scenes prior to yesterday's launch

Testing it thoroughly would have been more useful.

there's always bugs that only surface once you are live

This is true, but many of the bugs that you've gone live with are the type that should be caught by testing.


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:03 am
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Working well on windows 7 + chrome, my Lollypop android device (vodafone smart ultra 6) and also my marshmellow device (vodafone smart ultra 7).

Good update.


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:04 am
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Zoom not working in safari on my iPad today .


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:06 am
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Poly's post on this thread is in a smaller font size than the rest...?
Quotes break the font size setting

FWIW I love the button colour. Is there a RAL colour for that?


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:07 am
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[i]Too busy skipping to the top to post[/i]


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:10 am
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[quote=molgrips ]Poly's post on this thread is in a smaller font size than the rest...?
Also.. all the text is really quite big, with no option to make it smaller? It is larger than the default I have set in chrome (android)

thisTHIS on a chrome book

also quoted text is the size it used to be and any other comment MASSIVE again
Not great to look at

PS why did you o something like this at Xmas? everyone in work should be freewheeling today....you should be more like your users and less dedicated ๐Ÿ˜‰


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:10 am
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[quote=Stoner ]As someone smarter than me posted on the other thread, in android chrome, go to settings, accessibility and select force pinch zoom to override the website settings.

not a fix on a chromebook as no setting in chrome to do this- may be my ineptness


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:12 am
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Just realised, the redesign has seen the end of Times New Roman on my browser... ๐Ÿ™


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:13 am
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You need a "back to top" link Mark on the pages regardless of device.


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:14 am
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You don't need a "back to top" button, you need whatever's so important at the top putting at the bottom as well. (Which TBF was always a bugbear of mine with the 'classic' site design.)


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:17 am
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Ok.. So if iPad/tablet users could hit refresh now....


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:25 am
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Way better on mobile devices. Top work...


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:27 am
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Now bearable on android if you request desktop site.


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:31 am
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You don't need a "back to top" button on iPad you just tap the top of the screen, it's an inbuilt feature to Safari on iOS


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:32 am
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Thanks Mark and Team, but you really ought to out riding bikes rather than being brow beaten by MAWCBs, just sayin.


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:33 am
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Settings
Accessibility
Force Enable Zoom

No such option on my Galaxy S6 ๐Ÿ˜•


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:35 am
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No such option on my Galaxy S6

What browser?


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:40 am
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If we report a bug can we get 6 months free subscription or something?


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:40 am
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Free coffee tamper of course


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:44 am
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You don't need a "back to top" button, you need whatever's so important at the top putting at the bottom as well. (Which TBF was always a bugbear of mine with the 'classic' site design.)

perhaps Cougar however on PC/Mac scrolling back to the top to do anything else is antiquated - especially when pages here can run to the number of posts they do.
either put the forum headers there too or a "back to the top" link.

edit - oh look - there's now a puce green "skip to top" button....


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:45 am
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Seems to be working alright for me, w10 chrome, moto g4 chrome. The mobile site seems better, can't zoom, but the text is larger and more readable, so don't really miss it.

Those in thread ads would do my head in though!


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 11:45 am
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Ooh the blank ad frame at the right has gone on my iPad. Jolly good.


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 12:05 pm
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perhaps Cougar however on PC/Mac scrolling back to the top to do anything else is antiquated - especially when pages here can run to the number of posts they do.
either put the forum headers there too or a "back to the top" link.

That was my point. Why go back to the top of the page at all, just have the links you need at the bottom. (You seriously scroll to the top of a page on a PC? Is your Home button broken?)

edit - oh look - there's now a puce green "skip to top" button....

Puce is a sort of red-purple. HTH.


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 12:18 pm
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Zoom seems fine on my iPad (ie finger zoom in/out)

Thanks for update, best of luck with updates (Christmas timing ambitious, no rest for the wicked ๐Ÿ™‚ )


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 12:22 pm
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Puce is a sort of red-purple. HTH.

More of a snot green really.
Dunno what all the fuss is about, all seems to work fine for me ๐Ÿ˜€
Although I don't bother trying to use it on my phone - aging eyes and all that, can't be doing with all the squinting.


 
Posted : 23/12/2016 12:26 pm
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