A mobile version of this site..

Hi

So several times now I have had to try and log into the site using my blackberry..

It's soooooo freaking slow..

How about a mobile front end for the website?

Surely such things must exist for this flavour of BBS..

I do PHP too if you ever need some helps

[Modulus]

Hi

So several times now I have had to try and log into the site using my blackberry..

It's soooooo freaking slow..

How about a mobile front end for the website?

Surely such things must exist for this flavour of BBS..

I do PHP too if you ever need some helps

Nobody good makes anything compatible with Blackberry really.
I have a mobile version coming but it only supports Iphone and Android.
It is not possible to code my own version of the forum for blackberries.

[Modulus]

Nobody good makes anything compatible with Blackberry really.
I have a mobile version coming but it only supports Iphone and Android.
It is not possible to code my own version of the forum for blackberries.

It's fairly simple to write a little java script to detect if it's a mobile phone browsing the site. Then it's a matter of if browser=mobile then use a other template set..

I'm working on similar ones now and all new sites that I design are mobile browser compatible..

I wasn't talking a mobile phone app they suck and are expensive..

[Modulus]

It's fairly simple to write a little java script to detect if it's a mobile phone browsing the site. Then it's a matter of if browser=mobile then use a other template set..

I'm working on similar ones now and all new sites that I design are mobile browser compatible..

I wasn't talking a mobile phone app they suck and are expensive..

I could do it for a regular website, however to recode the entire forum software for blackberry is not possible to do.

It isn't feasible to do it for myself, it would probably take a year working full time for anyone.

Someone else may do it eventually, but I think they only offer iphone/android versions now., However I am sure someone is working on it.

It is easy to design a standard website for moblie by just redirecting another layout yes.
Doing this with the forum requires rewriting all the code of the forum to display lists differently, and 10,000 other things.
It is a web application, not a website.

The changes made would not be upgradable and any upgrades I do to the forum would break the mobile site.

[Alexis]

It might be pretty simple really..

Hmm..

Well I do lots of CMS sites.. it's really not that hard.. I just use a snippet of PHP to detect the USER_AGENT and it then uses this true or false statement to set the path for the template in the header or set the variable in PHP. The only difference in the site is the template fro the mobile browser. In some cases as with some Joomla sites I'm upgrading there may be some other things that have to be tweaked..

The mobile template might have to include some additional php to make it work properly but I haven't taken a good look at how VB works lately..

I've done VB site templates before as well and it shouldn't be too hard to do..

Currently the site is 1017kb to load the base page at http://tgirlforums.com/yabbse/forum.php

I mean I'm just suggesting.. not sure how many other users browse from a mobile device..

Probably a minority as per usual..

[Shyla Wild]

I could take all the graphics out, but I suspect it is the database accesses that are really slowing it down.

Have you thought about the Ipad2? It uses Dual Core Processors. Not really a good starting point as very few if any other devices could run it at this time.

By next week tgirlforums should be sitting alone on this server, then you may notice any latency involving the server will be gone.
It is already fast but it soon it will be like a baby driving a tank.

Will this help with the delay with the shoutbox?

[Shyla Wild]

It just isn't built for mobile the way it is now.
I don't have too much problem on my blackberry but I am on blazing fast 4G and their new OS.
I'll be working towards optimizing on mobile, but the fact is most users here are on PCs.
The working girls are the ones most on mobile devices, from what I see.
The common guy or porn surfer is going to be on a computer.

The shoutbox is very dependant your processor and browser, as is much of the forum.
I did upgrade the forum to the newest possible and add the shoutbox, however I believe the devices and browsers will catch up.
To speed the site up on mobile devices they need to run ajax bettter and faster.
I think the Playbook is ahead of the game on this, but the next generations of phones and tablets will render as fast as PCs.
Now I don't really have to upgrade any more for a while until everyone catches up more.

I don't really see delays with the shoutbox other than when it first loads and it doesn't stop the rest of the page from loading.
However that is why it is only on the main page, so it does not have any effect on browsing threads.

Understood. ....kinda

[markg]

i use it on a lot of forums its well worth it

[Lovetoy]

I love tapatalk and this is my main interface. It's even how I found this incredible forum. The only downside is that I cant manage friend invites or lists. This type of app will keep mobile fans/users like me much more involved.