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Forum Viewing on a Mobile Device in Portrait

ceedee

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When visiting on my iPhone 6 I've noticed that it's a little difficult to read in standard portrait orientation, for example:

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It looks better in landscape mode though. I mention this because one other XenForo site I visit has something configured differently which makes it much more readable. I think it is because the user names and avatars span the top of the posts when viewing on a narrow screen:

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It would be great if ASR looked as good on the phone screen … just in case it's easy to fix! ;)
 

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That's a very good point Nick. I also noticed it for a long time now, but I never mentioned it. Probably because my Android screen is simply too small for me to attach much importance. I will get a tablet though eventually, 10" or so, then it'll be more important.
But true, the texts on a small phone's screen is in the vertical here @ ASR, unlike other forums.
It's good you mentioned it as it could lead perhaps to improvement from the site's mobile designer team.
 

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Thanks for the suggestion. I put in a work-around that makes it better but not yet as good as the other site. It now shows the text alongside the avatar rather than below it. It is a global change so hopefully it has not broken anything else. :)
 
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Thanks Amir! Anything to help would be great. I hope it doesn't mess anything else up!
 

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ASR still looks like what is in the first screenshot on my phone (Android, latest Firefox), is there something I need to change in my settings? Thanks.
 

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You need to change theme, then it looks ok outside of fight Club threads.
 

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You need to change theme, then it looks ok outside of fight Club threads.

Default style, forum style, and fight club style all look the same, just a different color profile.
 

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Mine looks like this.
 

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For me, nothing, it looks fine for me, others seem to get something else.
 

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My screen is 1080p, are the people having problems on higher resolutions?
 

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can you post a screen snapshot from your phone?

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Like @ceedee the Steve Hoffman forums look fine and is also on XenForo, this is the second screenshot.

My screen is 1080p as well. This is on Firefox on Android.
 
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