Mobile layout for hackaday.com?
Mars wrote 04/10/2018 at 15:38 • 0 pointsHackaday.io works perfectly on my phone. Hackaday.com is pretty much unusable on android Firefox, Chrome and Opera, which is almost 100% of the android market. Does it just not have a mobile layout? It just shows up like a desktop site, completely zoomed out. You can almost get a column of text on the screen and scroll up and down, but the font is a bit small. The site won't reflow the text. It thinks I have a huge desktop monitor and just lets me scrub around on it. I would like to have a linear layout you can zoom in and out of at any text size the read wants, and have the text reflow. Hackaday.io works how I expect. Please tell me this is an error on my part or a bug in your site, and not the intended experience.
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what kind of native ios
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Maybe we should build our own app for Hackaday.com? and we can add different text sizes and copy and paste functionality? It could also include functionality that the browser doesn't like a notification when a topic of interest is posted. As a mobile developer, one problem that I see with many web sites is that the mobile experience is an afterthought.
PS: Android app development is how I make a living
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Why does every website need its own app? Let's rewrite the hackaday frontend for iOS and Android, just for fun. Hackaday is a wordpress site; they literally just need to add a mobile template and it'll become magically readable on everyone's phones. Hackaday.io already looks ok on my phone; hackaday.com just needs some configuration in the wordpress console. This is the same problem I have the the retro.hackaday.com. Every hackaday story can be made available on the retro site with very minimal effort.
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No... not an app. I have a big problem with every website needing its own app. You know why? Everyone reimplements basic browser functionality, and poorly. My favorite example: Reddit. If you go to the reddit mobile site, it constantly bugs you to use the app instead. But simple things, like changing the font size, copying text, and stuff like that is built into the browser and just works. The official android app has a fixed, unchangable layout and font size. You can't just zoom in however you want... they have locked the layout. Maybe my eyes suck, maybe my screen is too small. The browser thought of and implemented these things. Why do I need to install another app, just to read some text and view some images? There's already a generic app for that... called the web browser.
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I'd love to have a native ios or android app.
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