Has the mobile version gone?!

Has the mobile version gone?!

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Alg123

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98 posts

103 months

Wednesday 26th August 2015
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Topic. I can't seem to get " mobile.pistonheads anymore ??

Davie_GLA

6,521 posts

198 months

Wednesday 26th August 2015
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Looks like it. It just redirects now.

Closest thing is to use the gti theme.


andybailey1972

307 posts

125 months

Wednesday 26th August 2015
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Gone for me too

ocrx8

867 posts

195 months

Wednesday 26th August 2015
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Gutted - I hate the new format.

Number 7

4,101 posts

261 months

Wednesday 26th August 2015
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The "full" website is rubbish on a mobile. Slower than a slow thing, need to zoom so much you lose most of the page. Looks like I'll not be using PH at all other than from home now. Retrograde step - bean counters no doubt decided that there aren't many people viewing on a mobile, so close it down.

anonymous-user

53 months

Wednesday 26th August 2015
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I've always used full version on mobile, as mobile was rubbish.

I surprised tapatalk not been used yet.

MrGRT

295 posts

162 months

Wednesday 26th August 2015
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Nooo. Full version is crap on mobile. As the other poster said, constantly zooming in and out and losing part of the webpage.

Shame on you PH

heronio

461 posts

144 months

Wednesday 26th August 2015
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Pistonheads why "fix" something that isn't broken?

Bring back mobile version!

sirbadger

133 posts

171 months

Wednesday 26th August 2015
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Any commment team PH? Is this a temporary thing? The full site is a real chore to use on an android device..

threadlock

3,196 posts

253 months

Wednesday 26th August 2015
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sirbadger said:
Any commment team PH? Is this a temporary thing? The full site is a real chore to use on an android device..
Choose the "GTI" theme in your forum preferences and it'll all go finger-friendly on a mobile screen while remaining similar to "Big Blue" on your desktop. Works really well for me.

dmiller

41 posts

117 months

Wednesday 26th August 2015
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threadlock said:
Choose the "GTI" theme in your forum preferences and it'll all go finger-friendly on a mobile screen while remaining similar to "Big Blue" on your desktop. Works really well for me.
Thanks that's a bit easier on my phone. Is there a way to view the overall general gassing page on that skin do you know? The view you get when you hit general gassing on the normal skin with a mix from all the sub forums?

paulrussell

2,084 posts

160 months

Wednesday 26th August 2015
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The mobile site is dead and PH has changed to a responsive skin as it's replacement.



RacingPete said:
tomjol said:
This isn't really an issue but there doesn't seem to be a discussion thread...

I'm confused about mobile. Is forum access via mobile.pistonheads.com going away? The alternative seems...compromised.
Yes it is... but we have a bit of work still to do to maintain the SEO benefits that site has and migrate them to www.pistonheads.com. So at the moment it is now read only (as you cannot log into it).

If you move to www.pistonheads.com then you have a choice of skins (under My Preferences) as follows:

Classic - A really old skin from 2003 or so (not supported)
Big Blue - The default skin for viewing when not logged in and new registrations, though gives desktop view on a mobile (will soon be deprecated)
Mobile (beta) - The first version of a responsive site (deprectated)
Beta 2 - The new skin we are working on which will be responsive and thus show nicely depending on your screen width <- this is the replacement for mobile.pistonheads.com and will become the default view for logged in users and new registrations.

sirbadger

133 posts

171 months

Wednesday 26th August 2015
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threadlock said:
Choose the "GTI" theme in your forum preferences and it'll all go finger-friendly on a mobile screen while remaining similar to "Big Blue" on your desktop. Works really well for me.
Thanks. More mobile friendly but is very "busy".. Is there a theme that is similar to big blue?

Checkmate

626 posts

206 months

Thursday 27th August 2015
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sirbadger said:
threadlock said:
Choose the "GTI" theme in your forum preferences and it'll all go finger-friendly on a mobile screen while remaining similar to "Big Blue" on your desktop. Works really well for me.
Thanks. More mobile friendly but is very "busy".. Is there a theme that is similar to big blue?
Having discovered that the mobile version doesn't work earlier today, I referred to this thread, and tried the "GTI" skin. It may be a little better than working the full site on a mobile, but it does make it very difficult to navigate between subforums. I find I have to go back to the homepage and navigate from there, as once in GG, say, there is no way I have found to go back to a list of all of the subforums without doing so. Very clunky, and terribly un-user-friendly. The old mobile version worked perfectly for me, I don't see why it needed to be changed.

Alg123

Original Poster:

98 posts

103 months

Thursday 27th August 2015
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Alg123 said:
Topic. I can't seem to get " mobile.pistonheads anymore ??
Argh so it's not just me then frown bring it back PH!!!

paulrussell

2,084 posts

160 months

Thursday 27th August 2015
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At the bottom of the screen there's a menu. Use that instead of going to the homepage as it's a lot quicker.

The mobile site is a copy of the forum run by a third party, which meant any updates to the forum were harder to do and expensive. It also had funcuallity missing, so it was decided to create a responsive skin as it's a lot easier than creating a new mobile site. I personally like the new skin on my iPhone, it's easy to use and navigate.


I seem to be posting on all the "why isn't the mobile site working" type threads in the past week or so. Would it be possible to make a sticky saying the mobile site no longer works, put directions to how to get to the GTI skin and explain why the decision to move to a responsive skin?

sirbadger

133 posts

171 months

Thursday 27th August 2015
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Ok, so been using the GTI theme since last night. Generally it's OK, couple of gripes:

The lack of a crumb trail slows down navigation and IMO is the most frustrating change.

Quick links to the last/first few pages of a thread was useful.

A lot of real estate is taken up with individual post headers, can the name, time, reply buttons etc not go onto one line?

ETA: is there an official thread for suggestions?

Edited by sirbadger on Thursday 27th August 07:29


Edited by sirbadger on Thursday 27th August 07:31

AudiSport

1,458 posts

215 months

Thursday 27th August 2015
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Crazy, completely crazy.

I personally was experiencing some issues on login to the mobile site, but I'm surprised to see they have killed it off. The problem is, what has always attracted me to the pistonheads forum over the years has been its 'no thrills, fuss free' approach, which worked very well with the mobile app. This full website on a small devise just isn't going to work. It doesn't matter how good the technology, or improvements - it's always about adoption.

Bad times... He says with his face right up close to the zoomed in screen : /


rscott

14,691 posts

190 months

Thursday 27th August 2015
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AudiSport said:
Crazy, completely crazy.

I personally was experiencing some issues on login to the mobile site, but I'm surprised to see they have killed it off. The problem is, what has always attracted me to the pistonheads forum over the years has been its 'no thrills, fuss free' approach, which worked very well with the mobile app. This full website on a small devise just isn't going to work. It doesn't matter how good the technology, or improvements - it's always about adoption.

Bad times... He says with his face right up close to the zoomed in screen : /
Use the GTI theme - then it adapts properly to small screens and looks pretty much like Big Blue on the desktop. The old mobile.pistonheads.com site was run by a third party and was extremely difficult/impossible for them to update to reflect the new login changes,etc.

northwest monkey

6,370 posts

188 months

Thursday 27th August 2015
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Personally I don't like it.

Why does it take me to the first page of a thread instead of the last page?

The "council" thread doesn't work, I can't work out how to get back to "The Lounge" if I'm in a thread and it's very slow.

2/10 from me.