General site updates, TODO list and discussion

[Dream of Omnimaga]

My main worry is that removing it would break the website when browsing from mobile, such as showing errors, but that finally wasn't the case. And apparently we can do it fine, as the Tapatalk staff themselves even explained how to do it, but if they ever decide to disallow it then we can simply get rid of Tapatalk anyway. We average at 20 posts a month from Tapatalk and 300 page views IIRC so we would prefer not losing those, though.

[Unicorn]

My main worry is that removing it would break the website when browsing from mobile, such as showing errors, but that finally wasn't the case. And apparently we can do it fine, as the Tapatalk staff themselves even explained how to do it, but if they ever decide to disallow it then we can simply get rid of Tapatalk anyway. We average at 20 posts a month from Tapatalk and 300 page views IIRC so we would prefer not losing those, though.

maybe someone would like to make an iOS/android app for posting on CW?

[princetonlion.tibd]

That would be nice, tapatalk is hard to use IMO

And/or a free Cw IRC app for mobile I just tried efnet and the button to send is tiny.

[Snektron]

My main worry is that removing it would break the website when browsing from mobile, such as showing errors, but that finally wasn't the case. And apparently we can do it fine, as the Tapatalk staff themselves even explained how to do it, but if they ever decide to disallow it then we can simply get rid of Tapatalk anyway. We average at 20 posts a month from Tapatalk and 300 page views IIRC so we would prefer not losing those, though.

maybe someone would like to make an iOS/android app for posting on CW?

I don't trust myself yet with authentications. I'm guaranteed to c up somewhere and leave a giant security hole.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

I heard before that when a website relies on an external app to make browsing easier, then that website has serious design issues. Ideally we want to focus on making the mobile theme even more mobile friendly if it isn't already. Of course Tapatalk is a nice option when you have a slow device or connection but if not many people are gonna download it just to browse CW, then even fewer people will download an app just for 1 site

[Snektron]

You know what would be cool for a mobile site? A side drawer. Also some way to view recent posts on the home screen on the mobile version would be cool though, since i miss that a lot

[Dream of Omnimaga]

What is a side drawer? Do you mean the ability to scroll in side navigations? That would be cool. Also maybe scroll bars for the member list so we can see everything but without distorting the page.

[Snektron]

It's a menu that appears when you swipe across the screen (horizontally). Walrifier android has one too

[CKH4]

Swipe testing is difficult without a JS lib. Usually a simple button is good enough but if you feel like being fancy slide out menus are cool.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

I wonder if @Streetwalrus  might know about it...

[novenary]

I'm no web dev. Ask @Juju.

[Dream of Omnimaga]

Didn't you create the responsive theme, though?

Unless of course the sliding thing requires javascript?

Another idea I thought was to not have any animations and simply buttons to expand/collapse the boxes, but the question is where to put them.

What about putting the sidebars at the bottom of the page in mobile mode? I mean, it would be like when we are in the admin/profile panel in classic mode, except that instead of having the navigation/extra content at the top, it would be at the bottom due to not being as important in this case.


EDIT: Also, the 404 page now has a link to CodeWalr.us

[novenary]

The responsive theme is just a css hack lol. It works well enough for our purposes though. :3 As for the menu, you need some js yeah.

[Yuki]

I think you can do the sliding thing all in CSS.

[novenary]

Yeah but to toggle the menu you need a bit of js I think.