Title speaks for itself. Just want to give a shout out to whoever programs the site. The mobile interface is sleek and functional. Makes my third shift so much better. Awesome! Great job!
Thank you for noticing! I use my phone a lot on the site and I think it's a dramatic improvement. I found myself having to expand the page on my phone in order to click really small buttons, like the shared by button or even the title of a post. I would end up on the wrong page often, unfollowed people often etc. The changes were not my design and I had nothing to do with the implementation but as a user of the site first and foremost, I think they are pretty kick ass. As someone that knows some of the changes to come, I'm pretty excited. Like insom said, let us know if anything is buggy or any potential pain points.
I think we will probably have an open discussion about the plans and get the community's feedback at some point before we dive in headfirst. We're in the very beginning stages of figuring out design / implementation / backend so it's a little premature at this point. I haven't been so excited about something in a while, though.
Thanks. You can credit insomniasexx for lighting the fire under this one, and for a number of the mobile improvements. As she mentioned, there are other updates in the works. Like everything around here, this is a work in progress.
You are very welcome. I believe it's only on the clean style yet if other users aren't seeing it. We have some bigger plans for mobile but we def want to eliminate pain points ASAP. Enjoy (and let us know any funkiness)
Oh I wanted to say something too. I've been hoping for a mobile version and it works great, thanks!
It looks great on iDevices (My ipod at least), but not on android. That would be my only complaint though. It looks great otherwise!
Ah. It looks like we are talking about two things. One is the mobile version you captured, and the second is a mobile responsive styling for 'clean' that we just pushed. It's likely the mobile site will be replaced by a single responsive site. At least until the day we get native apps.
Right now I have zero knowledge of code, programming, or anything much past Microsoft Office, but I plan to spend my free time this summer drilling through programming books, learning the works and practicing. If that development involves menial or otherwise clerical work (like, the coding equivalent of having to type numbers into excel), I'll totally do it for fun and practice so let me know, and essentially help speed up the dev process. Obviously this is probably not the case, but I have to inquire out of curiosity!
Fortunately, it's far more interesting, but I appreciate the sentiment. I definitely recommend trying your hand at it though. At its best, programming can be a creative process, and it's a joy when you realize something that you first only imagined. However, speaking as someone that never reads the manual, you can also just jump right in. Grab some existing code, and start hacking. Google or Stackoverflow when you hit a wall, and hack some more. I started that way, and at some point between then and now, I found myself coding for sessions unaided, at least in Arc and javascript. I am going to be picking up a new language soon.like, the coding equivalent of having to type numbers into excel
Looks good on tablet, in landscape and portrait mode.