OH Forums are Now MOBILE!

Its been over six years since we've launched our forums. During this time it has seen thousands of fresh faces, greetings, meetings, partings, arguments, kind words, life transformations, cathartic rants, and simply happy time pass. It has been with us throughout this time, silently observing and facilitating. But like any wise old man, its bones were getting old. Its joints were aching, and it has been needing a new jolt of energy.

A Mobile World
Did you know that over 30% of you visit our website using a mobile device? For those who do visit us via mobile, we owe you a sincere apology, because our forums have been horrendous on a mobile browser. But things have just changed! Our new forums are completely mobile friendly and compatible with iPhone, Android, and pretty much any other modern smart phone.

Each post, topic, and forum shows up beautifully, with the full set of features, and in nice large font. See the screenshots for yourself.

You dont have do anything different, just browse to the forums like you normally would. This means that you can finally put these away:

Not Just for Mobile
The interface on your desktop browser has also been cleaned up a great deal. There is now less clutter on the page, and the overall experience is a lot cleaner. Check out some more screenshots here!

You will notice that each post no longer has 400 buttons below it. Only the buttons that are relevant to each post show up, making your screen space a lot less cluttered. Also, when you reply to another person's post, the entire post is indented inside, making it a lot easier to figure out who has replied to whom.

Moving Forward
And do remember that this is not in any way a be-all-end-all when it comes to the forums. We are in the process of constantly learning and improving upon what we have, and this is just one step along the way.

We look forward to hearing your thoughts on this.

 It's much less user friendly...

I actually find it very difficult to read. I wear varifocal glasses, as do many people, and the text lines are too long to read without actually moving my head. And it is so blindingly white!





I appreciate your wish to keep the site up to date but those of us who actually stayed after the FaceBook debacle and the changed moderation style may find this a step too far. Modernisation is not bad, and a lot of the changed moderation was appreciated by a lot of people. But this is physically difficult to read.







Kate

And a bit more... Could the posts be more clearly separated? And this is actually less ipad friendly than the old version as I could not edit my post. When I tried, I got a lot of intext command letters.

And because I can't edit, a third post! I tried to remove the big gap in my first post and it simply would not allow me to do it.

Kate

And because I can't edit, a fourth post. The avatars as as shown on my ipad are too small to see.