TA Mobile website activated

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  1. blakespot

    blakespot Well-Known Member

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    We've just activated the mobile version of TouchArcade, created in an effort to reduce load times for those on an iPhone or other mobile device.

    We'll be making tweaks over the next day or so, and please share any issues you may experience here at the start.

    Thanks.




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  2. Zincous

    Zincous Well-Known Member

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    Authentication Required box keeps popping up. Wanting me to login to test.toucharcade.com
     
  3. blakespot

    blakespot Well-Known Member

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    Try now. Was a banner link I'd not changed. (Make sure you're not reloading the test site, so you get the change I just made...)



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  4. Zincous

    Zincous Well-Known Member

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    #4 Zincous, Apr 9, 2011
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    Still pops up everytime I refresh the page.

    I was never loading the test site. I am just typing "toucharcade.com" into the address bar.

    Here is a screenshot, you can see the address bar in the background is just "toucharcade.com"

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  5. Paradiso

    Paradiso Well-Known Member

    It's letting me on fine on an iPad, but there's no mobile version, just the regular site. Is it supposed to auto detect that you're on a mobile or is there an m.toucharcade.com type address you have to use?
     
  6. MidianGTX

    MidianGTX Well-Known Member

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    It auto-detects on my iPod Touch. I'm getting the same thing as Zincous, and also the "Skip to Responses" and "Back to Top" links aren't doing anything at all.

    Edit: Also the Tweet button is halfway off the screen, regardless of device orientation.
     
  7. blakespot

    blakespot Well-Known Member

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    iPad gets a reduced size backdrop image (as it has for the past months) but not the mobile version. Which is as we've intended it.



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  8. 1337brian

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  9. nizy

    nizy Well-Known Member

    Apart from the issue already mentioned with the popup, I would like to point out that the banner at the top is terrible. The app icons interfere with the text for Forums etc and making them pretty much unreadable.
     
  10. secondtime

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    See same issues as others. Agree that the top's red letters make it difficult to see that there are links. And the red "Load More Entries" and theme choices on the bottom of the screen looks like they are shadow font, making it also harder to read. Otherwise, looking forward to the mobile version!
     
  11. blakespot

    blakespot Well-Known Member

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    ?? Screenshot? Thanks.



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  12. hdgreen

    hdgreen Well-Known Member

    I have to agree that the background image is shocking and just looks like a reduced version of the normal one but not very well done.
    Also I kinda wish the posts were the same as macrumors rather than condensed requiring you to click on the link to read each post.
     
  13. Zincous

    Zincous Well-Known Member

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    I agree with him:

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    Hard to see/read the "about", "forums", "new games", etc.. buttons overlapping the banners.
     
  14. hdgreen

    hdgreen Well-Known Member

    apologies the links and the background image problem has now corrected itself. Still the issue with the posts though.
     
  15. Rocketman919

    Rocketman919 Well-Known Member

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    I for one think we should just get rid of this mobile version. Wasn't the whole point of Internet on the iPhone to use regular webpages easily instead of crappy mobile sites?

    The regular page is easier to read and navigate. Let's keep it that way.
     
  16. Zincous

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    Scroll to the bottom and click "Switch to regular theme" :)
     
  17. hdgreen

    hdgreen Well-Known Member

    Is there going to be a mobile forum as well?
     
  18. Paradiso

    Paradiso Well-Known Member

    They're just giving us more options, which is a lot more than many other sites do. It looks like it could use a lot of tweaking, but it's a definite step in the right direction.
     
  19. WunDaii

    WunDaii Well-Known Member

    Why did it take so long? :confused: Isn't it just the WPTouch plugin, but with a small difference?
     
  20. MidianGTX

    MidianGTX Well-Known Member

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    Yes. Shame it doesn't really work. I find this mobile version far easier. Apple are all about adapting the OS to perfectly suit the device, yet for some reason they try to wrap the device around websites that aren't intended for it? Contradiction?

    As far as ease of use goes, the mobile site looks and feels far more like it was designed for the iPhone.
     

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