Allow Recent Posts Block to Be Accessible on Mobile

You can access it by turning your phone to horizontal.

Screenshot holding phone vertically:

Screenshot holding phone horizontal:

Or you can just navigate/bookmark to this link on mobile:

https://ogrforum.ogaugerr.com/topics

Wouldn't take much CSS at all to accomplish:

@A. Wells posted:

Wouldn't take much CSS at all to accomplish:

As compared to turning your smart phone sideways, i.e. horizontal?

@Hot Water posted:

As compared to turning your smart phone sideways, i.e. horizontal?

That's a lot of work.

I have wanted this but didn't know landscape is all it took. Nice!!

I don't care for using the forum on mobile but sometimes I just don't want to fire up the ol' laptop.

@BillYo414 posted:

I have wanted this but didn't know landscape is all it took. Nice!!

I don't care for using the forum on mobile but sometimes I just don't want to fire up the ol' laptop.

Totally agree with this.  I think it's because I got my start on OGR by killing time on a work computer.  Now I'm just used to that version.

I only access the forum on a desktop as well but I was curious as to what it would look like on a mobile display and the lack of being able to access the Recent Posts stood out like a sore thumb.  As more users access this site via mobile, it would be advisable to expend effort on making the forum more mobile friendly.

Anthony

@A. Wells posted:

I only access the forum on a desktop as well but I was curious as to what it would look like on a mobile display and the lack of being able to access the Recent Posts stood out like a sore thumb.  As more users access this site via mobile,

Just how do you know THAT? I'm willing to bet that the vast majority of participants on the OGR Forum use a computer!

it would be advisable to expend effort on making the forum more mobile friendly.

Friendly to those that don't know to turn their smart phone horizontal?

Anthony

63% of viewers on this forum use a PC or a MAC. This is from Google stats. That percentage has remained in the 60-65% range for several years.

As you can see, just turning your phone to landscape mode solves the problem. There is no need to insert additional CSS into the code.

@Rich Melvin posted:

63% of viewers on this forum use a PC or a MAC.

Well, that leaves 1/3 of them using some other device.   OTOH, I agree that since you can simply rotate the phone, it seems redundant to expend extra effort to add this simple feature.

If you really wanted to make it more "mobile friendly", it takes more than a couple of CSS tweaks, hence more effort and expense.

I'm on Android and I have to go to the top right corner of my phone and click the vertical 3 dot line to open the dropdown menu.

That gives me the option to change to the desktop site.

Then the recent posts show. That's how I view them.

I only use my phone and turning it horizontal does not work on my phone.

Brad

Given the tiny screen size on a phone, I cannot imagine trying to read this forum on my phone. It’s just too small.

@Rich Melvin posted:

Given the tiny screen size on a phone, I cannot imagine trying to read this forum on my phone. It’s just too small.

Rich, I marvel at the people that do everything on their phones, I sure could never do it!  Give me a full sized keyboard and multiple large screens and I'm all set.

iPhone 8, just edited to add second screenshot.

@John H posted:

iPhone 8, just edited to add second screenshot.

OK wiseguy, let's see this thread on your phone.

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I do prefer the computer, but I just meant that it is not all that tough to read the forum on my phone. As for your example, You have to do a lot of scrolling on either device. I find it much easier to post pictures from phone, because I can do it directly, and I can reduce the size to upload faster. It's easier than hooking up my camera to the PC, downloading, filing and then posting , without your gigabyte/second speed. A longer thread isn't much different on either device.

I prefer my computer also, but I do keep updated with my phone and comment with it sometimes like now!