New Responsive Design for DCUM

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:What kind of phone did you use? Are you sure that you access the beta site?

I'm the earlier poster. The mobile responsive design showing up on my iphone 👍 Not sure what changed, I didn't empty my cache or anything.
Looks good.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:What kind of phone did you use? Are you sure that you access the beta site?

Not the pp but the first time I clicked for some reason it was the same for me but when I went back and tried again it worked. No idea why.

I like it!

[jsteele]

One thing I forgot to mention is that the desktop version uses larger fonts than the current production version uses. On both desktops and iPhone/iPads, you may want to set your zoom level to actual size or 100%. On desktop Safari, you do that under the the "View" menu and on phone and iPads by touching the two "A" characters in the address bar.

[Anonymous]

The Cancel button is new. I am not entirely sure it's necessary.

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you for the great update!

Some thoughts:

Maybe each Forum could be a link, without the list of other “sub-forums” underneath? Basically: Parenting Discussion Forums Link, then Relationship Discussion Forums link, and so on.

Also, inside of each forum, maybe less info for each of the topics (on my phone, it looks a little bit too busy the way it is).

The problem with using a responsive design is that it is hard to limit changes to just the mobile version. They tend to impact both versions. Neither of your ideas are impossible to implement for mobile-only, but the sub-forum idea is fairly challenging.

If I understand your second suggestion, you are referring to the number of replies, views, first and last post, etc? If so, I agree but in a previous attempt to use a design similar to this, mobile users were pretty strident about wanting the same info as desktop users. So, I have implemented it even though I think we could do without some of it.

Maybe different formatting instead of links that I suggested (sorry I am not a web-developer)? In the current version, if I open the “Forums page” on my iPhone 14 Pro, it takes two full scrolls to see all the forums. In the new mobile version, it takes 5-6 full scrolls to see all the forums.
For the second suggestion, your idea at 16:15 sounded great (topic title across, other info below).

[Anonymous]

Test.

(It looks the same as the regular DCUM)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Cancel button is new. I am not entirely sure it's necessary.

I am not seeing a Cancel button…?

[Anonymous]

Right next to Submit

[jsteele]

I found a problem in the load balancer configuration that explains why some of you weren’t seeing the new design. Fixed now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you for the great update!

Some thoughts:

Maybe each Forum could be a link, without the list of other “sub-forums” underneath? Basically: Parenting Discussion Forums Link, then Relationship Discussion Forums link, and so on.

Also, inside of each forum, maybe less info for each of the topics (on my phone, it looks a little bit too busy the way it is).

The problem with using a responsive design is that it is hard to limit changes to just the mobile version. They tend to impact both versions. Neither of your ideas are impossible to implement for mobile-only, but the sub-forum idea is fairly challenging.

If I understand your second suggestion, you are referring to the number of replies, views, first and last post, etc? If so, I agree but in a previous attempt to use a design similar to this, mobile users were pretty strident about wanting the same info as desktop users. So, I have implemented it even though I think we could do without some of it.

Maybe different formatting instead of links that I suggested (sorry I am not a web-developer)? In the current version, if I open the “Forums page” on my iPhone 14 Pro, it takes two full scrolls to see all the forums. In the new mobile version, it takes 5-6 full scrolls to see all the forums.
For the second suggestion, your idea at 16:15 sounded great (topic title across, other info below).

I agree that the scrolling to see the forums is not great. My vision is not 100%, and I can currently find “my” forums by position on the page, but that’s really hard when you have to scroll so much.

The list of topics within the forum is ok. I could probably get used to it. I love it once you’re actually in the thread - much easier to see the posts.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:On my phone. Kind of disorienting at first but I liked it once I found Recent Topics!

Can the links to recent and hot topics be at the top and not just the bottom?

[Anonymous]

jsteele wrote:What if I change the design of the mobile version of the topics list to extend the title across the full width and then have the date, author, first post, last post, replies, views, etc underneath. The titles would stand out more and make scanning through them easier.

NP—I think this would make a big difference—good idea.

I’m seeing some strange breaks between groups of threads on the individual forum pages. So, on Colleges and Universities, I see eight threads, a blank space, then another nine threads, a blank space, then another eight threads. I see this on my iPhone 11 in Safari and Chrome.

Thanks for doing this!

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:On my phone. Kind of disorienting at first but I liked it once I found Recent Topics!

Can the links to recent and hot topics be at the top and not just the bottom?

They are at the top. Click the "hamburger" on the upper left. That's the icon that has three horizontal lines.

[jsteele]

Anonymous wrote:

jsteele wrote:What if I change the design of the mobile version of the topics list to extend the title across the full width and then have the date, author, first post, last post, replies, views, etc underneath. The titles would stand out more and make scanning through them easier.

NP—I think this would make a big difference—good idea.

I’m seeing some strange breaks between groups of threads on the individual forum pages. So, on Colleges and Universities, I see eight threads, a blank space, then another nine threads, a blank space, then another eight threads. I see this on my iPhone 11 in Safari and Chrome.

Thanks for doing this!

Those spaces in the phone version are supposed to be filled by ads. I don't like ads in the middle of content, but the mobile design doesn't allow skyscrapers on the sides. So, I will have small ads space within the page. If you are seeing blanks, it's because no ads were provided. I'll try to change that to collapse the space when no ads are available.

[Anonymous]

Looks pretty nice on my iPad. Everything is where I left it, more or less. It looks updated but not alarming.