12:23 AM on 10.28.2008
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Niero
Do you read Destructoid on the toilet? Don't answer that!
If you have an internet-capable phone you'll be glad to know that we've upgraded the mobile version of our site quite a bit to make it faster and more useful on the go. We've packed most of the features into a tiny interface that lets you login and do just about everything -- read and post comments, jump to friends updates, view all community blogs, and get all the news or just jump to your favorite consoles.
We didn't water down the experience either: Instead of loading the entire articles with large photos we now load a highly compressed thumbnail (or author photo if none is available) and a summary that jumps to the full text. These improvements dramatically help load time even if you're not on a 3G phone. A few little things were scrapped (as loading 500 avatars on a cell phone was melting some people's batteries) but overall I think you'll be pleased.
If you are not getting the mobile version of the site from your device please visit this page and let us know exactly what it says in the comments below and we'll hard-code support for it on the next patch.
Otherwise, any suggestions on how we can make it better? Let us know know! Please mention the type of phone you are using.
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Couple of things: There seems to be a big gap between stories. Also, you can't scroll all the way back up after you've scrolled past SEARCH when NOT logged in. It looks like Login and all the links below it are one hyperlink.
When you try to read a full post, this error message pops up: format_post_text(): need field option
Otherwise, sweetness!
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Great work!
CTZ what phone are you using? I fixed the format_post text error on DT1 and now the menu is context sensitive if you're logged in (hides friends/comments links), plz give it a few minutes to sync up
also made some minor formatting changes to how the comments are displayed now on mobile
Everything works fine now!
The main page is not formatted correctly. The "DTOID MOBILE" logo appears to the RIGHT of "home, community, friends, etc", pushing all of those options to the left. Other than that it loads the stories up fine, with the logos to the right.
Nice job man, I look forward to more updates!
iphones are for pansies.
Also, fuck blackberries.
And to neiro, THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU. About the only access I have to my news through out the day is on my iPhone. I've been using the mobile version for some time. I do likez it!
Mozilla/5.0(Linux; U; Android 1.0; en-us; dream) AppleWebKit/525.10+ (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.04 Mobile Safari/523.12.2
...I do it on a daily basis at work and it sucks balls.
I'm getting "insufficient memory for this operation" . . .which might be a problem with my browser cache. I"ll check.
Got a Samsung u740 running on the Verizon network.
Palm Treo 700wx
Now this is a nice layout for a mobile web video game blog:
http://i.joystiq.com
Clean, text only on front page, loads images quickly, displays all comments.
http://www.myspace.com/tkurata (some musics)
dt1.destructoid.com/elephant/index_mobile.phtml
That should force it if it doesn't autodetect. I'll set up a shorter URL soon
will try again.
The new redesign makes the site unreadable in portrait mode. If I flip the phone to landscape, as I normally do, it's readable, but the text is like 3-4pt font size, tops.
I'd appreciate it if the text wasn't fit to a fixed width, so that it could possibly rescale itself when being flipped around.
I have to do a lot of zooming and scrolling around to read articles now and it makes it a headache to read it otherwise without busting out the glasses.
I have yet to test out the cblogs on the iphone because they used to crash the Safari browser constantly.