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General => General Technical Chat => Topic started by: Ampera on June 09, 2017, 05:14:18 am
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I have recently been administrating a Simple Machines Forum, and have found a mobile interface solution that is I think better than the paid option this forum currently uses.
Please note this is a suggestion, I don't know if the admins already know of this.
The solution is in two parts. The first is a custom theme called iOS.MF
https://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?lemma=2803
This is a minimalistic theme designed to look good on mobile devices, taking the UI style of iOS, but to make it work only on mobile devices, this mod can be used.
https://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?lemma=2803
This allows one to set a theme to display only on mobile devices.
This solution IMO looks better than what is already installed, and is usable for free.
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Changing the theme and hence look and feel of the forum is HUGE thing to do. Everyone hates change.
So the main desktop version won't be changed.
For a mobile specific version I think the existing SMF4Mobile looks and works quite well anyway? What's wrong with it? I think it looks better than the one your are proposing, but of course that's subjective.
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It's only for mobile devices? It also costs less than what you use now. If you want an example I can show you the forum I put it on. Any switches to the desktop theme probably isn't the mod, I just didn't install some parts of the site for that theme.
Also it only works when your browser requests a mobile site.
OldschoolTTT.com
Ignore the content, it's for an unrelated video gaming organization.
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It's only for mobile devices? It also costs less than what you use now.
SMF4Mobile was a one-off cost, bought and paid for.
OldschoolTTT.com
I just tried it on my Android chrome phone and it looked decent at first and then broke into the desktop version when going into a category.
It's broken somehow.
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I'm gonna try to fix that in about a week, I'm on vacation right now so all I have is an tablet.
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So yeah, sorry, I'm not going to install it.
I have had zero reports of any issues with SMF4Mobile.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
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Understandable, have a great day.