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  • May 28, 2018 at 9:44 pm #28568
    Welsh boy

    Is it me? I can’t find the forum on the smartphone version of the website, any suggestions please?

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  • January 28, 2019 at 5:54 pm #920395
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    Fish_n_Chips

    Bad is being polite.

    Bad is being polite.

     

    I really like the articles on roads, but the forum is absolutely sh… garbage.  Most people use forums on mobiles and tablets on the run.  PCs are heading out.

    A simple forum like 2008 STW would do it.  Now STW is garbage.  

    Good simple forums attracts traffic and boosts advertising income hopefully.

     

    January 23, 2019 at 5:27 pm #920393
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    bluemarina

    Really bad on my smartphone

    Really bad on my smartphone also!

    January 18, 2019 at 11:12 am #920391
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    Anonymous

    Let’s be fair though, it’s

    Let’s be fair though, it’s still absolute light-years better than a certain other Weekly Cycling website.

    January 18, 2019 at 8:58 am #920389
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    Nick T

    Yep the smartphone layer is

    Yep the smartphone layer is rubbish

    August 7, 2018 at 6:31 pm #920387
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    Tony Farrelly

    Just to answer the question

    Just to answer the question posed by the forum topic, you can now access the forum from the smartphone site – it’s in the hamburger menu at the side of the page. 

    As for the GDPR popups – the one on the classic version of the site (the non-smartphone mobile site) still doesn’t work as it should – popping up on every page load. They thought they’d fixed it last week, but they hadn’t and they’re still working on trying to fix it. It’s exactly the same popup as used on the desktop site (because the classic version is the desktop re-sized) which works exactly as it should there. If it’s not fixed very soon it will be turned off. 

    We’re keeping an eye on the smartphone popup – at the moment it seems to be working the way it should. That is, you should hardly ever see it.

     

     

    August 7, 2018 at 12:40 pm #920385
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    Mungecrundle

    The smartphone setting is bad

    The smartphone setting is bad enough but the bug with the ‘Adverts help us run this site’ stupidity is really annoying. The site has had weeks to fix the first issue and over a week to fix the second.

    Sure, it’s your site to crap up with whatever poor design choices you wish to make but it does not result in a good user experience.

    August 7, 2018 at 11:55 am #920383
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    hawkinspeter
    Yorkshire wallet wrote:
    Don’t forget the EVER ANNOYING “Ads help us run this site”, which even if you press continue to site, still continue to pop up talking half a screen.

    That makes the site pretty much unusable on my phone, so I stick with my adblocked browser on my pc instead.

    August 7, 2018 at 11:33 am #920381
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    Anonymous

    Don’t forget the EVER

    Don’t forget the EVER ANNOYING “Ads help us run this site”, which even if you press continue to site, still continue to pop up talking half a screen.

     

    August 7, 2018 at 11:01 am #920379
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    fukawitribe

    It may well get better, they

    It may well get better, they are trying by the sound of it. I was just hoping we wouldn’t have a similar CF to the previous re-write which was painful and we lost some useful functionality * in the forum/comments areas. Ah well….

     

    * including really esoteric stuff like, when you click a link to a comment from the front page, it actually goes to that comment..

    August 7, 2018 at 10:20 am #920377
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    sammutd88

    Unless there’s some tie to

    Unless there’s some tie to the web developer with the publication, I cannot believe Road.cc continue to go through this and think it’ll get any better. 

    August 6, 2018 at 1:51 pm #920375
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    Supers79

    It’s awful on IOS.  I have to

    It’s awful on IOS.  I have to scroll all the way down to the bottom of the page past numerous adverts (ummm) just to click on ‘classic version’.  It will then often revert back to the mobile version straight away but certainly when I return to the site despite never clearing cookies. 

    August 6, 2018 at 1:31 pm #920373
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    Kendo

    I don’t come here as often as

    I don’t come here as often as I might, mainly because:

    • Comments don’t load on mobile, just a constantly spinning wheel. I have to select “Desktop site” on Chrome’s own menu (Android) to view comments, and then mess about zooming about the page;
    • Having to accept cookie preferences on multiple pages within the same browsing session;
    • Smartphone button sometimes appears, sometime not;
    • Open a page, switch to another application, come back to the page and the url has defaulted to road.cc, instead of road.cc/ content / interesting_review_you_were_reading. The article is still there, but the url suffix has disappeared. Makes copying urls to share with people tricky.

    A frustrating experience on mobile.

    July 30, 2018 at 8:53 am #920371
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    dave atkinson
    kil0ran wrote:
    Since the recent https/cookie change I’m prompted to accept the cookie/ad preferences on every.single.page.

    Android OnePlus 6, in Chrome.

    we’re working on this, it’s a known issue.

    July 30, 2018 at 8:45 am #920369
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    kil0ran

    Since the recent https/cookie

    Since the recent https/cookie change I’m prompted to accept the cookie/ad preferences on every.single.page.

    Android OnePlus 6, in Chrome.

    July 30, 2018 at 8:26 am #920367
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    sammutd88

    The smartphone site is a mess

    The smartphone site is a mess, it lacks features required to access the forum and the comments section underneath articles is still hit and miss to the point where I more than often just give up. It also redirects from the normal site back to the smartphone version hence all your extra “hits”. If I managed your publication, I’d be demanding any money spent on this upgrade back and getting a proper web design company to design the new format.  

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