MLBTR is great. But in the past I’ve had problems viewing MLBTR on my android phone, and I’m sure I’m not the only one. It might be a good idea to help out the growing mobile web users by adding something like WPtouch.
I have no idea what your web stats look like, but I would bet that you pull a decent amount of traffic from Twitter. I would also think that your mobile stats are trending upward too. WPtouch would detect mobile users and automatically take them to a mobile version of MLBTR instead of having them go to the .mobi version.
I’ve seen these these ‘How to Use MLBTR’ post before, and it just seems overly complicated. People are lazy, and making things easy on them might help to keep and even grow MLBTR.
I appreciate the suggestion. I’d rather not bounce people to the .mobi automatically; the .com offers a lot more, as you’d expect. For those who can’t get the .com on their phone I’d rather just ask them to type in .mobi.
The best comparison I can give is TechCruch. They are using WPTouch and DISQUS.
I can understand not wanting to flip people back-and-forth between a regular site and a mobile site, but I’m just coming from a usability perspective.
I just went the the .mobi version of MLBTR, and was having problems navigating the site.
The first five post that show up on the .mobi site work fine. I can click the post headline and it takes me to the post, but after I get to the post the only way to get back is to hit the back button in my mobile browser, click the header image, or click the back link way down in the footer.
I also noticed that the if I click the ‘previous entries’ link I’m taken to a page that shows the previous 5 post that were on the .mobi home page plus the next five newest MLBTR post. The problem is that the headline navigation (link to the post) on all 10 post is nonexistent. The only thing I can see is the first couple sentences of each post. So, at this point there is no way to navigate the .mobi site other than using the footer links.
The last thing I noticed was that the Google Mobile ad seems to be broken. For some reason the ad seems to be linking back to MLBTR. Once I click the Google ad the page either reloads or takes me to a 404 page. I’m all for ads, but something is broken.
I’m using a Google android phone, and I came across the same set of problems for the default browser and the Dolphin Browser.
I hope I don’t come off has trying to bash the site, but I just wanted to let you know what I have experienced when trying to use the .mobi version of MLBTR.
Thanks for all the time and effort you put into this site, and keep up the good work.
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benkarl
MLBTR is great. But in the past I’ve had problems viewing MLBTR on my android phone, and I’m sure I’m not the only one. It might be a good idea to help out the growing mobile web users by adding something like WPtouch.
I have no idea what your web stats look like, but I would bet that you pull a decent amount of traffic from Twitter. I would also think that your mobile stats are trending upward too. WPtouch would detect mobile users and automatically take them to a mobile version of MLBTR instead of having them go to the .mobi version.
I’ve seen these these ‘How to Use MLBTR’ post before, and it just seems overly complicated. People are lazy, and making things easy on them might help to keep and even grow MLBTR.
Tim Dierkes
I appreciate the suggestion. I’d rather not bounce people to the .mobi automatically; the .com offers a lot more, as you’d expect. For those who can’t get the .com on their phone I’d rather just ask them to type in .mobi.
benkarl
The best comparison I can give is TechCruch. They are using WPTouch and DISQUS.
I can understand not wanting to flip people back-and-forth between a regular site and a mobile site, but I’m just coming from a usability perspective.
I just went the the .mobi version of MLBTR, and was having problems navigating the site.
The first five post that show up on the .mobi site work fine. I can click the post headline and it takes me to the post, but after I get to the post the only way to get back is to hit the back button in my mobile browser, click the header image, or click the back link way down in the footer.
I also noticed that the if I click the ‘previous entries’ link I’m taken to a page that shows the previous 5 post that were on the .mobi home page plus the next five newest MLBTR post. The problem is that the headline navigation (link to the post) on all 10 post is nonexistent. The only thing I can see is the first couple sentences of each post. So, at this point there is no way to navigate the .mobi site other than using the footer links.
The last thing I noticed was that the Google Mobile ad seems to be broken. For some reason the ad seems to be linking back to MLBTR. Once I click the Google ad the page either reloads or takes me to a 404 page. I’m all for ads, but something is broken.
I’m using a Google android phone, and I came across the same set of problems for the default browser and the Dolphin Browser.
I hope I don’t come off has trying to bash the site, but I just wanted to let you know what I have experienced when trying to use the .mobi version of MLBTR.
Thanks for all the time and effort you put into this site, and keep up the good work.