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We should have a poll on that* 🙂Lets be honest - its not the magazine bringing people here - its this forum and its online presence bringing people to the magazine.
I'll admit to not really caring about the magazine. I might, occasionally, read an article if it's been referenced in the forum. I do get that Mark/Chipps etc see themselves as publishers and that's fine but I'd love to see the breakdown on what subsidises what (though I'm not expecting for a moment that STW would share that with us). There's also a "chicken and egg" situation whereby a few (too few?) forumites won't pay while there's so many (bad) ads but there are too few paying members to run the forum without ads.
* Of course, you can't see the link to the polls, or anything in that sidebar, when you're viewing in mobile view so the results might be skewed.
My tuppence worth is that I browse the forum on an iPad 4th gen with the latest iOS installed using safari no ad blocker app apart from possibly a default one enabled and at the end of a very rural overhead copper wire. No longer a P and I have to say it works really well. Banner ads, top middle and bottom cause no loading issues either.
No need to zoom as I've increased font size in settings anyway.
@hammy, I hear your frustration and annoyance but I don't seem to be using the forum in the way you might be, so don't experience the same issues. All I can say is that life is short, have you considered taking up a new hobby?
Dunno if this is part of a "redesign" but those links on the right to "News", "Reviews" and "Blogs" are messed up...
On my pooter they link to
http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/ [i]<current page>[/i]#sidebar-news (etc)
eg. http://singletrackworld.com/forum/topic/website-redesign-update/page/17#sidebar-news
which goes nowhere (obvs)
While we are shouting into the wind... scrolling using the scroll wheel on my mouse has stopped working (today I think). Fine on other websites in the same browser.
[i]scrolling using the scroll wheel on my mouse has stopped working[/i]
No problem with that here. I bet those links work for you though?! 😆
Don't know if it's been mentioned before, but the forum can be quite awkward to read and navigate on a phone (up to date iOS).
Try using Chrome. Safari is a bit, well, it's like having a French car. It's all right and all, but it's a bit French.
I avoid the Google system as much as possible; Chrome is not an option. Why would the people who - and I use the term loosely - 'designed' the site have jammed the title into one column, often making it unreadable, and floated just two/three digits into the other? Do they program it to display differently in different browsers? iOS Safari is fine. It's not a huge problem as I just tend to not read the forum on my phone any more, I just thought those who run it might be concerned that they'd made part of their site less user friendly and less accessible.
Can't find any hits on this - but anyone know why Edge on my Surface gives me the mobile site not the desktop one?
As far as I can tell it is down to how many pixels wide it is so in a small window you'll get the 'mobile' site, full screen should be 'desktop'. Technically speaking there isn't a mobile site, its one site that displays differently on different devices.
As far as I can tell it is down to how many pixels wide it is
What he said. Also there should be a "request desktop site" option in, er, options, unless Edge has nobbled it.
Request desktop site is for mobile devices, which this isn't.
Making it bigger worked though. Ironically when used as a tablet it's big enough not to trigger the 'mobile' style site. Haha.
Is there a new character limit for contributors without a 'P'? 4th gen iPad using latest iOS and only the first line of my posts are showing after posting to the thread. Mildly annoying as I seem to be dispensing wonderful nuggets of wisdom and unconditional positive regard this evening and no one can take any benefit as they are not visible. Will be interesting to see if all this appears as this is now 4 lines in the text box and no new paragraph. EDIT. All of it is here! However, I I now press return to start a new
Paragraph...
EDIT: seems to be working, perhaps the internet doesn't like or approve of my nuggets? Nothing to see here, move along. My coat is just there.
Anyone else getting asked if they want to save racingpost.apk when browsing the forum on an Android device?
Anyone else getting asked if they want to save racingpost.apk when browsing the forum on an Android device?
Yup
EDIT: seems to be working, perhaps the internet doesn't like or approve of my nuggets? Nothing to see here, move along. My coat is just there.
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[/img]There are some things that, once seen, cannot be unseen... 😉
Anyone else getting asked if they want to save racingpost.apk when browsing the forum on an Android device?
I've reported that. Screen shots would help I expect.
Forum running like a hog on chrome both on android and desktop for last week or so.
Had dodgy popup trying to get me to download bogus chrome update earlier whilst on here earlier.
Anyone else getting asked if they want to save racingpost.apk when browsing the forum on an Android device?
Yep, no screenshot as Chrome is flagging it as a dangerous link so it redirects to the Play Store. Only way to clear it is to restart Chrome otherwise it sucks huge amounts of data in the background.
First time I've tried accessing this site via mobile in a while and it's still a pile of poo, back to desktop only (with Premier Experience Plugin* 😉 ) for another few weeks.
* I'm copyrighting that 💡
Got this little beauty just now..
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Let me help you with that...
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Reported, ta for the screenshot.
Thanks! 🙂
Scotroutes, i can't believe you're spoofing shermer's ip!
"it sucks a huge amount of data in the background"
I've mentioned it before, but I'll mention it again : This site seems to swallow megabytes of data in the background if you leave it open in Chrome (mobile).
I guess it might be my device (and the Huawei background data notifications are notorious for being very annoying) but the usage significantly ups my daily figures if I don't actually close chrome, or, leave it on another page.
Noticeably less so with a P, like down from 5 megs an hour to a few KB.
It’s still rubbish on an iPhone 🙁
[quote=Mark ] 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.
🙄
😆
Then I woke up and it was all a dream
we have long since realised that the target of being able to go straight to the last post never mind page is one that is only in the mind of the user and involves way too few clicks to be of any interest to anyone with an analytics page in their shortcuts
Is it 2009?