Obligitory Introduction.

[dreamatdrew]

Welcome to dw_mobile . We're just getting this off the ground, here, so please be patient. 

Right now, we are very much in the brainstorming phase of giving Dreamwidth's mobile offering a makeover*. A few things have been discussed, however:

• First of all, a major-ish change: move the mobile interface from www.dreamwidth.org/mobile to m.dreamwidth.org . (Or something similar; as I said, still brainstorming here...)
• Adding and making more readily accessable features from the main site. Crossposting and Reading Filters are two items that come to mind immediately.
• Quite a few teeny backend tweaks have been thrown out too, mostly geared to optimizing for mobile browsers and to make the site just a bit easier to deal with.

Yes, I'm being vague. I have a very good reason for being vague right now: I don't want to poison the well by pre-emptively laying out a bunch of ideas that start you thinking about what's already planned instead of what you would like to see.

So, here's your space to put up your ideas. Big, earth-shattering ideas, teensy tiny nit-picky ideas, ideas that you don't think anyone but you would like. Everything is going to be considered. Mobile is for us users who have to use it, and we should make it do what we want it to do.

So, Lay on, Dreamwidth....

~~dreamatdrew 


* Just to clarify, we're referring to the mobile version of the website. While mobile client developers/users are more than welcome, that is not the primary focus of this discussion. Feel free to offer up ideas or harvest ideas here for your own use, though

Comments

Opt in mobile site

[listener_sheogorath]

One of my bugbears is that even when I was on an entry level phone, I could access the desktop versions of sites by browsing with Opera Mini, and now I have an Android, the mobile versions are obsolete, yet I am still auto served with the crippled version of this site with no full site button in view. What about auto serving the full site version to every device and making an easily locatable mobile site button for those who need it?

Re: Opt in mobile site

[cesy]

What are you seeing, and what URL are you using? It may be worth sending a Support request - the site works fine for me on Android, and I only get the mobile version if I actually go to the mobile URL.