Hi, I see a lot of you are having trouble with scrolls in the app being detected as clicks on stories. The team here has been trying to reproduce this, but failing. Here's a list of device / browser combinations I've tested:
iPhone 4s Safari
iPad 1 Safari
Nexus7 Chrome
Nexus7 Firefox
Nexus7 Opera
The concern here is that there's some kind of common scrolling motion we aren't doing that's causing them to get interpreted as clicks. Are you holding your finger down longer? Pausing somewhere in the scroll? Is there horizontal motion in there? Is your scroll more of a flick? We've tried all those things and haven't seen it, so if some of you experiencing the problem would be kind enough to record a video of yourself making it happen (preferably on one of the above devices so we can reproduce it too), that would be great. There is no Slashdot Mobile QA team and our dev team is tiny.
If you really want to use the mobile site in desktop Chrome you can check "Emulate touch events" in the web inspector, but it isn't officially supported so expect to see some oddities.
The mobile site is designed to work on Android and iOS browsers only. We haven't tested it much on desktop browsers, so I wouldn't expect it to work there. You'll see the best experience on the latest version of mobile Chrome/Safari, but it also should function in the latest mobile Firefox and Opera.
Hi, I'm a mobile dev responsible for the new app. The mobile site chooser popup is designed to go away and not reappear when you choose "Classic" but obviously you guys are not seeing that behavior. We'll get a fix out soon so the site will really remember you don't want to use the mobile app. Sorry about the extra popup in the meantime.
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This was an honest mistake, not a plan to spam you. It should be fixed now, sorry.
It looks like a lot of people would like to see this, so we've added a ticket for it. You'll be able to open stories in a new tab soon.
Hi, I see a lot of you are having trouble with scrolls in the app being detected as clicks on stories. The team here has been trying to reproduce this, but failing. Here's a list of device / browser combinations I've tested:
The concern here is that there's some kind of common scrolling motion we aren't doing that's causing them to get interpreted as clicks. Are you holding your finger down longer? Pausing somewhere in the scroll? Is there horizontal motion in there? Is your scroll more of a flick? We've tried all those things and haven't seen it, so if some of you experiencing the problem would be kind enough to record a video of yourself making it happen (preferably on one of the above devices so we can reproduce it too), that would be great. There is no Slashdot Mobile QA team and our dev team is tiny.
Thanks for the bug reports. I've added tickets for them.
Windows phones are not supported by the mobile app. There's a list of supported platforms on the FAQ.
If you really want to use the mobile site in desktop Chrome you can check "Emulate touch events" in the web inspector, but it isn't officially supported so expect to see some oddities.
The mobile site is designed to work on Android and iOS browsers only. We haven't tested it much on desktop browsers, so I wouldn't expect it to work there. You'll see the best experience on the latest version of mobile Chrome/Safari, but it also should function in the latest mobile Firefox and Opera.
Hi, I'm a mobile dev responsible for the new app. The mobile site chooser popup is designed to go away and not reappear when you choose "Classic" but obviously you guys are not seeing that behavior. We'll get a fix out soon so the site will really remember you don't want to use the mobile app. Sorry about the extra popup in the meantime.