RPM,
Reasons why this current mobile forum view is not inviting, but rather discouraging:
1. It is extremely data hungry
ADSL costs are relatively low. However most people(that use mobile view) browse from their mobile phones and those do not often have the large, lower cost package
2. You cannot turn off pictures to force it to use less data, as it simply ignores your mobile devices internet settings.
3. The slowness of the forum, today is only marginally slower than the new mobile view. The older was faster and far more responsive and accessable.
4. This software does not allow for last viewed post in a thread. Imagine wanting to read from where you stopped in, say, the SIII thread? Or one of the longer sports threads?
This on its own is super frustrating, then combined with the above mentioned it is certain to discourage lurkers or posters from viewing on their mobile phones, making it likely to drop viewed pages and posts per day, rather than increase it.
5. Finding the latest posts/threads button is an adventure in its own right.
I for one prefer a more clean page, when viewing on a mobile phone, and do not enjoy consistantly scrolling off the side of the page to finish a sentence, nevermind an entire article.
On a 10.1" tablet the full site is "readable and postable" in the full format, however the above still applies to the mobile view.
So in my humble opinion this mobile view is not an improvement but rather a fail.
Note ::::: I have not, as yet, looked to see if there is any diffference to the browsing/posting experience of the full site.
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