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Banned Joined: Sep 13 2008 Posts: 3129

http://phpbb-mobile.com/
Is there a way we can get a mobile version of the forums running? The site isn't that bad to browse on iPhones, windows phones, or other mobile devices I've used. But I think it could be better. Would this be easy enough to install or would it be a pain?

Posted: Sep 24 2012 11:52 pm

I can barely make it around on Opera Mobile. I'd appreciate this if it's worth the trouble.

Posted: Sep 25 2012 06:14 am

I would be interested in this. Especially if it made mobile admin easier.

Banned Joined: Sep 13 2008 Posts: 3129

I guess now we see what GP thinks?

Joined: Jun 08 2010 Location: Termina Field Posts: 1541

I guess I might as well show support for this.

I would also like the main articles to have a mobile version, but that would be harder to do, and the iOS' Reader function takes care of this nicely. Don't know about any such function for Android or WP7, but I don't have anything that runs those mobile operating systems, and as such don't really care.

Joined: May 22 2008 Location: Goshen, VA Posts: 6544

I have no problems browsing the forums or main site on my android phone running Opera Mobile.

Banned Joined: Sep 13 2008 Posts: 3129

i have no problems with browsing the main page or the forums on IE mobile on a windows phone 7. But there's no harm in making it easier

Joined: Jun 08 2010 Location: Termina Field Posts: 1541

JoshWoodzy wrote:

I have no problems browsing the forums or main site on my android phone running Opera Mobile.

What about the default Android browser?

Also, under Opera Mobile for iOS, the articles seemed to look okay, the pages were nicely reformatted for mobile viewing (although it did nothing better than the article view in the iOS browser. However, the forums looked a bit messed up, and text was still too tiny for comfortable mobile viewing, and many of the Javascript thingies like the spoiler/NSFW hide/show thingies and custom things implemented during last year's forum battle don't work right or at all. This is with the default settings.

Granted, I used to but currently don't currently use Opera Mobile, as I have moved from the shitty cellular carrier I used to have, and as such don't need to have on-the-fly compression in order to have pages load sooner than three weeks.

EDIT: Just thought about it, and there might be some difficulty to porting over the spoiler, NSFW, NES and dice tags, depending on how they were implemented. Also, the version of phpBB on this site will definitely need an update.

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

LOL

You poor fools... if you only knew.

The site cannot easily be converted to a different format. I tried, it won't work without insane amounts of effort. I mean, truly insane. The forum is running PHPBB 2.x We really need to upgrade to 3.x

Also, some of the code will need to be rebuilt. All the bonus BBCode is an example of such code. It is what it is.

Banned Joined: Sep 13 2008 Posts: 3129

Oh mighty GP, why the hell aren't the forums up to date?
Would we lose our awesome 90's web look?

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

I would love to update. Not my call. Syd, what do you think? Wanna upgrade and slowly we can fix all the shit that is quirky as we go?

Guest

Is there any new updates regarding this topic sir?..just wanna keep updated, thanks!

Posted: Dec 21 2012 10:09 am

Oops, never meant to ignore this. Yes, I am interested in upgrading the forums. My number 1 concern is making sure that the forums are backed up properly before we start though, so as to keep all the data intact. We will have to discuss this.

Banned Joined: Sep 13 2008 Posts: 3129

right... phpbb uses sql database magic...

Does the cpanel for Dreamhost have an easy-to-use backup option?

Joined: Dec 06 2007 Location: Connecticut Posts: 11244

Hacker wrote:

right... phpbb uses sql database magic...

Does the cpanel for Dreamhost have an easy-to-use backup option?

Hacker, it uses MySQL