mobile [Feedback] Improve Neoseeker Mobile - Page 3

I constantly accidentally check the subscription box that's next to the thread title and information (like last poster and at what time). Do we really need that there? (Assuming that's a subscription box..?)

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Mobile mode is tricky because you have to balance between having links in that people want and making them easy to click. Believe it or not, the "terrible" mobile mode we have now was made painstakingly and carefully to try to maximize what is shown with what is available to use. During the UK meeting it was brought up the mobile mode needs to be more touch friendly (I use it on a touch phone), especially the pagination and various links and that's on our TODO list.

It is VERY HARD to show both information people want/need and also make it touch friendly, since the touch links are absolutely huge.

I went to the neogaf mobile mode and they solve the useability problem by pretty much removing all links from the site at all, and removing 50% of the data. For instance, their thread browse pages have no author name, no date, no page links, and no last post information. For pagination you can press "Next" or "Previous". Now if these tradeoffs are what everyone wants we can do that, but I've had alot of trouble browsing sites like that in the past because I have to click "Next" 15 times to get to page 15 of a thread. But at this point, the question of clickability butts up against functional useability. If you were participating in a 30 page thread, do you really want to start either at page 1, or page 30, and click back one page at a time to page 15? Could that be solved by having a dropdown that lets you pick what page to go with, and keeping only a very minimal pagination set of links?

I'm really interested to know what members might want to see in actual practice when it comes to enhancing useability and what tradeoffs might be done to make it useable, so if you guys make mockups or even take the HTML and make a few sample screens for us the play with maybe we can figure out what to do.

Data Input

This part I'm really interested to hear more about too. What are examples of mobile sites with good input boxes and the like? As far as I can tell, all mobile sites have major trouble with text area boxes.

These are good ideas Nagare, and I'll try to get some of them implemented for the nf1.1.0 beta test.

1+ to a "jump to page" function

so much easier, especially when the page numbers go to 2 lines i have to zoom in sometimes to click the right page number

Not an HTML code. Similar to the code that makes the message boxes pop up for the quote/link/img/spoiler/etc Neotags below the reply box. It would be better on mobile if the reply just used that for the reply box.

Avatars need to go in mobile mode I think. Thing about mobile modes is you gotta omit the non essentials. Avatars and sigs could probably just be viewed in mobile profiles but not threads.

Redemption, could you consider adding the PM box back in for mobile mode? It's a lot more convenient to be able to check the counts on my.neo without having to go the PM page.

(Steven)