Forum format change?

[Cyclist]

This is how the firum looks on my phone. ANDROID.

 

[Cyclist]

@MazdaFlyer
What style are you using for the forum?
What size of font are you using on the forum?

That may give us some understanding of what may be happening.

 

[MazdaFlyer]

@MazdaFlyer
What style are you using for the forum?
What size of font are you using on the forum?

That may give us some understanding of what may be happening.

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Medium Font style and iPhone with Safari
Screen shots

 

[Cyclist]

Those two look normal.

 

[MazdaFlyer]

Those two look normal.

The point is before the forum software update or change there were navigation buttons at bottom and top. They are now gone…Tapatalk got dumped then the RRB software change took away navigating without scrolling to top or bottom of post and looking for a link to go backwards. So I’m not spending time looking at other posts now. Change isn’t always good. After 10 years I’m slipping away.

 

[MazdaFlyer]

From inside the forum, logged-in, I clicked on “home”. This screenshot is what I remember seeing before the big software update.

When selecting “forum” in the menu the navigation bits disappear. I’m not an IT person, just a consumer/user/customer that would like some customer service:

 

[kingfish254]

I don't remember seeing that bottom toolbar before. That screenshot might help the forum techs figure out what you were talking about though.

 

[MattiThundrrr]

That looks like a Safari icon in blue, bottom right corner. Matches the font size buttons next to web address at the top of MF's screen. That makes me think those missing navigation buttons are a browser feature similar to the Chrome ones that I posted earlier.
* I'm also not a tech guy, just trying to get to the bottom of this issue, and retain the talent. Don't go, @MazdaFlyer !

 

[kingfish254]

That looks like a Safari icon in blue, bottom right corner. Matches the font size buttons next to web address at the top of MF's screen. That makes me think those missing navigation buttons are a browser feature similar to the Chrome ones that I posted earlier.
* I'm also not a tech guy, just trying to get to the bottom of this issue, and retain the talent. Don't go, @MazdaFlyer !

@MazdaFlyer , I wonder if that toolbar is a iPhone Safari browser thing.
Here is a screenshot of a possible answer from a google search I did.

 

[kingfish254]

I also found this which has a short video showing the bottom toolbar going away then reappearing with a touch.

Mobile Safari (Whyyyy?!) - Engineering Blog

Have you ever felt the fear when someone from the Executive team finds a bug on your site? I have. Recently. It’s all because of mobile Safari. I’m one of the engineers on the Listings team at Eventbrite. We work on the event page, which I like to think of as the heart and soul … Continue...

www.eventbrite.com

It also states that

And thus began the month long saga of finding a solution to this problem. It turns out that the normal behavior of mobile Safari is to shrink the top address bar and hide the bottom navigation bar on scroll. When an approximately 44px high space on the bottom of the window is touched, the bottom navigation bar reappears.​

 

[MazdaFlyer]

@MazdaFlyer , I wonder if that toolbar is a iPhone Safari browser thing.
Here is a screenshot of a possible answer from a google search I did.

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Yep…That’s the way I remember the RRB Forum software working before the “update”.
If you scroll to bottom of thread and click touch the bottom of screen you get the toolbar back momentarily and then you get the “XenForo” page…

 

[kingfish254]

Yep…That’s the way I remember the RRB Forum software working before the “update”.
If you scroll to bottom of thread and click touch the bottom of screen you get the toolbar back momentarily and then you get the “XenForo” page…

I may be wrong, but from what I read in the write up and elsewhere, that functionality is part of Safari and doesn't have anything to do with whatever webpage or forum you are on. Maybe it's a setting on your browser? Does that toolbar show up for other webpages? Did it before?

 

[MazdaFlyer]

The whole key to my complaint is that the bottom toolbar and the top “done” button used to show up before the software update. I’ve stated this numerous times. No settings in Safari that I’ve found.

looked at some other websites, the bottom toolbar is active and accessible.

 

[Cyclist]

The point is before the forum software update or change there were navigation buttons at bottom and top. They are now gone…Tapatalk got dumped then the RRB software change took away navigating without scrolling to top or bottom of post and looking for a link to go backwards. So I’m not spending time looking at other posts now. Change isn’t always good. After 10 years I’m slipping away.

Were you on Tapatalk all the time in the before?

 

[Cyclist]

The whole key to my complaint is that the bottom toolbar and the top “done” button used to show up before the software update. I’ve stated this numerous times. No settings in Safari that I’ve found.

looked at some other websites, the bottom toolbar is active and accessible.

Can you take a screen shot showing that from which ever forum? It would help.

 

[MazdaFlyer]

Can you take a screen shot showing that from which ever forum? It would help.

There’s one at #26 of this thread page.

 

[MazdaFlyer]

Can you take a screen shot showing that from which ever forum? It would help.

 

[Cyclist]

I am talking to the tech folks to see if I can get something like this back for you. No promises, but it is being explored.

 

[Cyclist]

@MazdaFlyer When looking at the forum using iPhone and Safari our tech sees this.

If you notice the controls are at the bottom. Nothing has been changed in the software.

What you need to do is a long press on the title bar of the browser. And it will hide automatically when you scroll down.

 

[MazdaFlyer]

@MazdaFlyer When looking at the forum using iPhone and Safari our tech sees this.

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If you notice the controls are at the bottom. Nothing has been changed in the software.

What you need to do is a long press on the title bar of the browser. And it will hide automatically when you scroll down.

So if I ditch the desktop button you sent out and access RRB forum directly through Safari the navigation seems to work as before…something changed.

wow…