Help with reading forum on mobile devices?

Marc Rosenblum via pbs pbs@lists.pacificbulbsociety.net
Thu, 30 Jun 2022 14:28:22 PDT
David,
Since SRGC has solved this issue using the same platform, perhaps you 
might ask Maggi for advice on this.

On 6/30/2022 2:04 PM, Brenna Green via pbs wrote:
> 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
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