Why does this site not work on my phone

Why does this site not work on my phone

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mini me

Original Poster:

1,435 posts

192 months

Wednesday 16th April 2014
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I'm sure I've had this before but I cannot get into the forums on my phone. All I get is a blank page with a link saying use full website. If I click on that I just end up going round in circles. The only way I can get into the forums at the moment is to google search for a thread name and go in that way.

Once I'm in it works fine. I'm logged in and can post etc. it's been like this for ages and is really putting me off browsing. This is on an iPhone 4s running ios7.1.

DaveH23

3,230 posts

169 months

Wednesday 16th April 2014
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When you click forums and get the white page your address bar will read:

mobile. pistonheads.com/gassing/

Delete mobile. so it reads:

pistonheads.com/gassing/

There is a few threads regarding this issue and I believe work is being carried out on the mobile skin. The above will allow you to view the full website skin on your phone/tablet.

Edited by DaveH23 on Wednesday 16th April 08:17

mini me

Original Poster:

1,435 posts

192 months

Wednesday 16th April 2014
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Thanks, that seems to work. Apologies for bringing up an issue thats already known about. Has been doing it for some time though. Im surprised it is still broken if its a known issue. cant be that hard to sort it surely?

Cheers for the tip.




eybic

9,212 posts

173 months

Wednesday 16th April 2014
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The mobile site development has been put on the back burner a bit whilst concentrating on developing the main site as usage for the mobile site is very small.

surveyor

17,768 posts

183 months

Wednesday 16th April 2014
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eybic said:
The mobile site development has been put on the back burner a bit whilst concentrating on developing the main site as usage for the mobile site is very small.
Which it would be if it does not work right.....

What about an 'app', something that every other forum seems to have developed successfully...

W12GT

3,502 posts

220 months

Sunday 20th April 2014
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surveyor said:
eybic said:
The mobile site development has been put on the back burner a bit whilst concentrating on developing the main site as usage for the mobile site is very small.
Which it would be if it does not work right.....

What about an 'app', something that every other forum seems to have developed successfully...
Totally agree with this. I have very little spare time and the only chance I get to be on PH is when I am on a train, a passenger or walking the hounds! I can never post responses because the mobile version won't allow it - I'm using an iPhone 4S so not exactly an obscure phone.

Sort it out PH as the comment regarding mobile traffic is stupid.

As the famous words from Field of Dreams "Build it and they will come"

eybic

9,212 posts

173 months

Sunday 20th April 2014
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We're trying to push mobile site dev up the list. As a workaround as suggested earlier, if you add /gassing to the ph.com address, you wi be able to use the forums. I'm on my phone posting this now (Sod's law it won't post hehe )

mini me

Original Poster:

1,435 posts

192 months

Monday 21st April 2014
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I'm no web designer but wouldn't it be kinda a piece of cake to make the link for forums on the mobile site point to the address you recommend maybe just as a short term fix?

Save us all messing about with deleting stuff on a tiny screen and inevitably getting it wrong 59% of the time?

23rdian

387 posts

162 months

Monday 21st April 2014
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Works pretty well on couple of Android phones I have used.

Maybe its the hardware? ;-)

markcoznottz

7,155 posts

223 months

Monday 21st April 2014
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mini me said:
I'm no web designer but wouldn't it be kinda a piece of cake to make the link for forums on the mobile site point to the address you recommend maybe just as a short term fix?

Save us all messing about with deleting stuff on a tiny screen and inevitably getting it wrong 59% of the time?
Strange company tbh, I don't know why they make the site a challenge to use.....

mini me

Original Poster:

1,435 posts

192 months

Wednesday 21st May 2014
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Still appears to be broken. Do you guys actually just not care that it's a pita for us? Also when clicking on any of the features on the homepage I always just get an error message. It's been like that since the dawn of time it would seem.

Are we mobile users of no importance to you? Seems a bit unfair.

MattDell

3,240 posts

154 months

Wednesday 21st May 2014
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We care. More than we get credit for. We've just taken a step back with this one to see all the possible scenarios one might encounter using PistonHeads on a desktop, tablet, and a phone. Here's just a few of the scenarios we're trying to cater for, and that may help explain the wait.



You should see the fruits of our labour soon.

mini me

Original Poster:

1,435 posts

192 months

Thursday 22nd May 2014
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Looks like you've made a large board with many very short lengths of wire stuck to it.

Thanks for the reply. I look forward to it all working seamlessly.

FiF

43,960 posts

250 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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Most of my problems were solved when I changed to the Mobile beta skin.

Posting from android.

waterwonder

995 posts

175 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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Always the same response from PH. The mobile site has been rubbish for years now. No wonder traffic is low, which is funny because in general browsing the Internet via phone increasing exponentially.

I dint pretend to know the ins and outs of it but PH is definitely behind the curve (i think the curve is out of sight) especially when you consider the size of the site/resources.


spitfire4v8

3,990 posts

180 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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samsung / android user here and I don't think i've ever had a problem with the mobile site .. maybe just lucky. There's plenty of other things I'd change on PH but the mobile site isn't one of them. I hope it now doesn't get messed up as part of the fix ..

Killer2005

19,595 posts

227 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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Today I'm getting the PH mobile home page, but then the full PH website when coming into the forums

rscott

14,690 posts

190 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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I had this too. MattDell posted a fix here - http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Alex

9,975 posts

283 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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Could you just dump the mobile site and let me browse the desktop site on my phone?

MattDell

3,240 posts

154 months

Friday 23rd May 2014
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Alex said:
Could you just dump the mobile site and let me browse the desktop site on my phone?
Just scroll to the bottom of the site and switch to the desktop version.