... please let me know if this is helping you in any significant way.
I don't like how it looks and plan to turn it off again unless I can understand the benefit.
I believe one "benefit" is the ability to reply to a comment and have your reply appear under that comment. That's something I don't like. I prefer a straight line of chronological comments (and you can simply quote what you are replying to or write @username at the beginning of your comment).
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It is awful. No upside at all.
Not a fan of it, but I can switch it back to the web version.
I agree
Does nothing fo me
Awful indeed, and I couldn't even comment until I selected "Desktop Site" from my mobile browser menu.
I thought there was something wrong with my phone browser, or I had entered into some sort of low data mode. Previously, it didn't display like the full desktop view on my phone (the info and links on the right were placed somewhere else) but it had formatting and pictures showed up inline etc.
I preferred that mobile version of the non-mobile view.
"I preferred that mobile version of the non-mobile view."
Yeah, me too.
I'm using an Apple phone (of course). Perhaps on other brands of phones the formatting is more of a problem.
yuk.. i HATE it
I hate it.
Do. Not. Like.
Yes, hate but…on an iPhone I can see what I’m typing and can edit what I’ve typed. The new web version the format makes the type line disappear and I have to resize and scroll just to see the typing line. Editing is impossible- I end up erasing and starting over until I get the text correct or just give up…
Mixed reaction. Upside: it's been cumbersome rotating my phone and double-fingering the page to expand the text to readable size, but now that's unnecessary. It's all more quickly readable. Downside: The thumbnails are microscopic and I can't see them well enough to decide which ones to click on. Also, if you have more than one image/embed in the same post, there are no thumbnails at all; you have to move over to the full post's page. Final verdict: You probably should dump the mobile version.
Way, way better for readability on an iPhone ( and I have a Pro Max)
Using an Android phone and Chrome. The font is sized better and text flows better making it much easier to read in portrait mode. The comment entry is also working better though the comment box is still fixed in size. In desktop view, the font is much smaller, and I have to scroll left and right to read. Switching to landscape doesn't help that.
My bad on the switch between portrait and landscape. I turned off auto-rotate at some point. I don't really like reading in landscape mode, however Looks to me like mobile mode favors a portrait presentation.
I'm here at home
And when I’m sitting at home, ain’t going mobile
Well, I'm gonna use my phone
So won’t you throw me a bone
And don’t go mobile
Keep me guessing
Wow! Too many smart people on this Blog. It’s gonna take some getting used to.
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I prefer a straight line of chronological comments (and you can simply quote what you are replying to or write @username at the beginning of your comment).
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Keeps the suckers at your page longer, especially if they are slow readers, huh?
I do not like at all
I thought something had gone wrong with the blog formatting. I'm with those who would like to change it back.
I read this blog in safari on iPhone. How would I see the “mobile” view? I don’t see a difference in last couple days.
I get its your blog but the obsession over forcing chronological comments is a bit much. At least on my Android the mobile version is pleasantly readable without endless scrolling left and right, or resizing the text. In addition to the changes to the font and text flow, the home page is simplified with imbeds eliminated, and each post is displayed as a selectable entry. Overall a much better presentation for a mobile device.
Check the url you are using for a "/?m=1" at the end. At least on Chrome/Android, there is a settings pulldown menu that includes a check box option for 'desktop site'. IIRC on Chrome it's sticky for each site. You might be defaulting to the web view even with a mobile device.
I’m on an iPad. I desperately need the old “edit” function, as some have probably noticed.
Not a fan
Not a fan, the original way is easier to read.
I have “/?m=0” at the end….
I just tap to zoom once on your blog and then scroll down the page on my phone. Mobile view hides most of the post content so now I have to tap each post to read it, not just the longer ones with digressions. I much prefer the desktop site.
Ok when I switch to m=1, I see what everyone’s talking about. Thx for the help, Christopher B.
Don’t like it at all.
It's way easier to read on a phone. It does kind of look like shit. It's way better than the style that forces you to use rotate and zoom to read the comments on the phone.
Sorry, but it’s awful.
Awful. Easier to read in a way, but also ugly and hard to use.
Both of the new formats are bad, but the desktop format was terrible.
Really dislike it., and don,'t see a benefit. Can't tell what a posting is about without clicking on it.
It hasn't been helpful to me. I had assumed that it was a bug in the blog software.
No and I wondered what happened. I had found before that if I clicked on the post title that the comments would format in mobile mode and be easier to read.
So go back to that now that I've figured it out.
I use an iPhone. I can not see your photos unless I scroll down and switch to web view, which I have to do every time I go to the blog.
Not a significant reading improvement on Android (Pixel). I truly appreciate the photos, which are very well done, and hence scrolling down to switch back to web view seems needless friction.
I thought your bill was broke. But could still read so fine with me... I miss the other format but appreciate the minimized text appearance, and I read here for the parsing of word subtlety anyway.
Much, much easier for 70 year old to read what with the bigger font and less cramped text density.
Dislike. Not enough of each post visible in the main scroll
Dislike. Not enough of each post visible in the main scroll
I prefer a straight line of chronological comments (and you can simply quote what you are replying to or write @username at the beginning of your comment).
I prefer that method as well. I view and comment using my iMac not my iPhone. I cannot see the nested comments unless I try to comment. A lot of comments make little sense to me because of the lack of context.
Chronological for me, also. I get the ‘thread’ view, but it isn’t even that: you can’t reply to a reply, which can get terrible also. You simply miss comments.
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