I mostly use my phone to access AA. There's two issues I've encountere and thought I should mention eventually.
I guess eventually has arrived.
1. Using emoji. This is really only an issue when I can't remember the :name: shortcut. If I were to guess, I think the problem is that the site is actually pushing a copy of every single emoji when I open the menu... instead of only one tab at a time. It takes me a literal 4-5 minutes to open up the emoji menu (I timed it while connected to wifi at school... It's slower on the road). Perhaps on the back end a change could be made to only load the current tab of the emoji menu? Or if that is currently happening, to have the default be non-animated smilies with a new tab for "Most used"?
And since I'm on the topic:
Perhaps someone could look into the padding on the emoji display in portrait orientation? It's hard to change tabs with all those cute birdies in the air...
(This is actually resolved by turning to landscape orientation, but I do so much like my keyboard in Portrait mode. And the time to open the emoji menu is the same either way.)
2. Advertisement size. Would it be possible to have mobile-specific ads? I love our vendors and have met some really great new ones through the lovely "announcements" at the top of the forum! The down side is that I think they can be rather big to load (lots of high-resolution colors/animation). I've noticed that loading of the front page has really bogged down as the number of banners increased. (When I accessed the forum through a friend's identical phone who had ad blocking software and compared it to my own load times over the same wifi, there was a real and noticeable difference). I'm NOT endorsing ad blocking nor am I saying we should stop with ads! It would be nice though to have ads that load QUICKLY on a mobile device.
I guess eventually has arrived.
1. Using emoji. This is really only an issue when I can't remember the :name: shortcut. If I were to guess, I think the problem is that the site is actually pushing a copy of every single emoji when I open the menu... instead of only one tab at a time. It takes me a literal 4-5 minutes to open up the emoji menu (I timed it while connected to wifi at school... It's slower on the road). Perhaps on the back end a change could be made to only load the current tab of the emoji menu? Or if that is currently happening, to have the default be non-animated smilies with a new tab for "Most used"?
And since I'm on the topic:
Perhaps someone could look into the padding on the emoji display in portrait orientation? It's hard to change tabs with all those cute birdies in the air...
(This is actually resolved by turning to landscape orientation, but I do so much like my keyboard in Portrait mode. And the time to open the emoji menu is the same either way.)2. Advertisement size. Would it be possible to have mobile-specific ads? I love our vendors and have met some really great new ones through the lovely "announcements" at the top of the forum! The down side is that I think they can be rather big to load (lots of high-resolution colors/animation). I've noticed that loading of the front page has really bogged down as the number of banners increased. (When I accessed the forum through a friend's identical phone who had ad blocking software and compared it to my own load times over the same wifi, there was a real and noticeable difference). I'm NOT endorsing ad blocking nor am I saying we should stop with ads! It would be nice though to have ads that load QUICKLY on a mobile device.
