Timeline for Deprecating our mobile views
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| Dec 3, 2021 at 0:54 | comment | added | Jim Grisham | If the responsive view was as functional and visually-mature as the existing ‘mobile’ view, people would probably not even notice the transition. As of now, it will be a radical shift for many; see:: meta.stackexchange.com/a/372478 | |
| Jul 22, 2021 at 6:53 | comment | added | Swift | @Mast what looks on one combination of browser, screen and modern UI design, looks awful on other. I ran onto website that was designed by someone with 4K screen. ANd that was Support Site of relatively active social network (SecondLife). On my 1080 there 1cm gaps between lines. On his they are 2mm :P While more or less fixed now, the site got still that "a lot of whitespace" look | |
| Jul 22, 2021 at 6:51 | comment | added | Swift | @Mast I can't say that padding is good on large screen either. Problem is, large screens have huge variety DPI that not always properly reported to system and can be changed by user settings, and browsers behind them have variety of quirks related to determining padding "this doesn't work that way because it wasn't guaranteed by spec". WHile targeting mobile users, which mostly would just browse anyway, desktop and mixed platforms users, who actually write most of the answers, get annoyed by too sparse "empty" pages and huge holes between lines of "modern", "material" view of today's fashion. | |
| Jul 21, 2021 at 16:53 | comment | added | Mast | There is a lot of wasted space on desktop as well, depending on your resolution. The sides show an awful lot of white for me by default. | |
| Jul 21, 2021 at 16:29 | comment | added | TylerH | Personally I would like to see a lot less padding/margins on the desktop site, too. | |
| Jul 21, 2021 at 5:40 | comment | added | grg | @Cris How could I forget about landscape! Added to the answer, thanks. Code blocks also don't wrap on the responsive site, though I suspect people are more split on whether that's a good thing. | |
| Jul 21, 2021 at 5:38 | history | edited | grg | CC BY-SA 4.0 | landscape |
| Jul 20, 2021 at 22:59 | comment | added | Cris Luengo | This is especially true for code blocks. They're even narrower than the post itself, on my phone I can read only maybe 15 characters on each line of code without scrolling horizontally. And when you rotate the phone, all the text scales, so you see the same amount! | |
| Jul 20, 2021 at 17:11 | comment | added | Vincent | @grg Ah. My bad. | |
| Jul 20, 2021 at 16:27 | comment | added | grg | @Vincent I’m not at all suggesting keeping the mobile site. I’m asking that the benefits of the mobile site be brought to the responsive site — just some well overdue CSS changes, for when we no longer have the choice. | |
| Jul 20, 2021 at 16:06 | comment | added | Vincent | While you make fair points, I honestly don't think it's worth keeping a mobile site. If you can see a little less on the responsive site, scroll. Just slide your finger up the screen and voila! More stuff appears. It's not hard to do. Maintaining an entirely separate site to overcome this "problem" however, that is hard to do. It makes no sense. | |
| Jul 20, 2021 at 9:21 | comment | added | Jonas Wilms | Yeah, I'm still using the "mobile view" for exactly that reason. Especially when quickly moderating /questions the new view doesn't work quite well. | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 22:50 | comment | added | curiousdannii | Don't forget the obnoxious triple hamburger menus! I'm astonished so many people prefer the responsive design. It wastes so much space. | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 20:52 | comment | added | grg | @Aaron I understand and I see the benefits, but for me currently the benefits do not outweigh the downsides. I just want to make sure such things are considered before the mobile site is removed completely (I've added another set of screenshots), as these issues have existed for a long time but we've always had the mobile site to switch to. | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 20:50 | history | edited | grg | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 260 characters in body |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 20:46 | comment | added | Aaron Shekey StaffMod | Lots of refinements to be had, for sure. We've gotta find a better home for that ask a question button. However, there are some pros to that responsive view regardless of scrolling. We can see some question stats, and we also get a community theme. Our mobile-only views have some tiny buttons for being optimized for mobile. There's a balance for sure. ✌️ | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 20:43 | history | edited | grg | CC BY-SA 4.0 | added 260 characters in body |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 20:43 | comment | added | zcoop98 | Yes, yes, yes please! Leaving the mobile views behind is great, but I would love to be able to maintain the smaller scroll distance and higher information density from mobile on the responsive view. | |
| Jul 19, 2021 at 20:38 | history | answered | grg | CC BY-SA 4.0 |