Forum Issue: Mobile Device

Terabyte

Another issue on mobile is the "Mark as Read" button in the unread topics page. It used to load a list of all categories, but now it also changes into a text input to filter the categories and it keeps opening the keyboard on mobile. This means I have to first close the keyboard each time because otherwise I can't even see the categories list to begin with. 🤨

xdrfiredogx

Can confirm, the forums are entirely unusable if you are running a current version of Firefox (Android, Galaxy S21 ultra) and want to do more than read posts.

My limited testing shows that it works on older versions of Firefox from before their big overhaul a year or so ago.

YMMV

pcj

Hmm, I'm using Firefox right now to write this, on Android 12 on a Galaxy Tab S6, and it's working just fine for me.

Actually, I'm not sure if it matters or not, but I hit the "Install" button in the Firefox menu, to let it install the PWA that nodeBB supplies, and that's what I'm actually using. It's basically a no-UI version of Firefox that automatically loads the forum. It's still the forum website it's just in a dedicated browser with no URL bar (but Firefox under the hood)

piisfun

@pcj said in Forum Issue: Mobile Device:

Android 12 on a Galaxy Tab S6

Too big.

This only affects small format devices.
(local definition is having a width of less than 767 pixels)

pcj

@piisfun indeed. I used to use it on my Galaxy S10 periodically but haven't in a while. Just tried it, and the menus are completely useless on that screen size.

Crimson Wise

NodeBB 2.1.0 seems to have another attempt to try to fix the issues with the menus. Hopefully that is enough, once JNC staff has the opportunity to do the upgrade.

Terabyte

@Crimson-Wise said in Forum Issue: Mobile Device:

NodeBB 2.1.0 seems to have another attempt to try to fix the issues with the menus. Hopefully that is enough, once JNC staff has the opportunity to do the upgrade.

In case it doesn't we'll just have the convince them to convert to a different forum option. 😋

Anyway, I hope the new upgrade will also fix the email notification issue. I still haven't received a single email after the previous upgrade.

chocolatkey

I've performed some more (new) plugin updates. Has anything improved?

pcj

@chocolatkey indeed. I type this from my Galaxy S10 and the menus work now :)

piisfun

@chocolatkey said in Forum Issue: Mobile Device:

I've performed some more (new) plugin updates. Has anything improved?

THEY WORK!!!

While I know that JNC basically couldn't do anything until after NodeBB does... it can be difficult to not complain.

anony-mouse99

@chocolatkey seems to be working well for several different attempts over the past few hours on iPhone and iPad so far!

Terabyte

@chocolatkey said in Forum Issue: Mobile Device:

I've performed some more (new) plugin updates. Has anything improved?

Yeah, mobile seems much better now.

Still no email notifications though... 🙄

Shiny

@chocolatkey said in Forum Issue: Mobile Device:

I've performed some more (new) plugin updates. Has anything improved?

The JNC logo is still on a different line for me on my Google Pixel 6.

piisfun

@Shiny said in Forum Issue: Mobile Device:

@chocolatkey said in Forum Issue: Mobile Device:

I've performed some more (new) plugin updates. Has anything improved?

The JNC logo is still on a different line for me on my Google Pixel 6.

/*Fix Logo size on mobile*/
@media (max-width: 767px) {
  .header .forum-logo {max-width:175px;margin: 2% auto;border:none;padding:0;}

This should fix it.

Notes: 767px is the trigger-point for "small format layout." All other values can be tweaked as you like.
Padding and border are listed to disable them so that the behavior of margin is easily predicted.

chocolatkey

@piisfun Added that into the global styles

xdrfiredogx

@chocolatkey

Hadn't seen that the new plugin were added till now, but yes, it works now! I'm replying from Firefox on my Galaxy S21 ultra in fact.