Help with reading forum on mobile devices?

Brenna Green via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:04:20 PDT
On Thu, Jun 30, 2022, 6:13 AM David Pilling via pbs <
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net> wrote:

> Hi Brenna,
>
> Those are interesting comments. We have in recent times placed priority
> on supporting mobile devices. For example the wiki is now mobile
> compatible (50% of users of it are on mobile).
>
> We've failed to recruit someone prepared to pester us to get mobile
> right on the web based forum:
>
> https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/…
>
> Thought has been put in (there are lots of skins to choose from), I've
> used the forum on my phone with no problems, but that's not the same as
> getting comments from a dedicated phone user.
>
> I will go away and consider what you've said and tinker.
>
> I guess this topic would be better discussed on the forum.
>
>
> On 30/06/2022 04:36, Brenna Green via pbs wrote:
> > Hi all. I finally got around to looking at the forum today and it isn't
> > recognizing that I'm on a mobile device (my phone.) It's displaying text
> > that doesn't break properly, meaning I'd need to scroll to the right
> quite
> > a bit for every line I want to read. I might normally simply rotate my
> > phone to landscape mode for this sort of thing, but even that's not even
> > close to wide enough.
> >
> > Any other forum I've used recognizes what sort of device I'm on and
> > delivers properly formatted content... Or at least something readable. I
> > checked SMF's help for this. (Their help appears to run on their forum
> and
> > formats correctly for my phone, btw.) There's a discussion about mobile
> > support using skins but it's unclear to me if this is solely a user thing
> > or if it requires support from forum administrators.
> >
> > I'm hoping that someone else has dealt with this already and can point me
> > to what I need to do to make the pbs forum display correctly on my phone?
> > Right now it's basically not readable for me at all.
> >
> > Thanks for anyone's help in advance!
> >
> > Brenna
> > _______________________________________________
> > pbs mailing list
> > pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
> > http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…
> > Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
> > PBS Forum latest:
> https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/…
>
> --
> David Pilling
> http://www.davidpilling.com/
> _______________________________________________
> pbs mailing list
> pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
> http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…
> Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
> PBS Forum latest:
> https://pacificbulbsociety.org/pbsforum/index.php/…
>
_______________________________________________
pbs mailing list
pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
http://lists.pacificbulbsociety.net/cgi-bin/…
Unsubscribe: <mailto:pbs-unsubscribe@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net>
PBS Forum https://…


More information about the pbs mailing list