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I'll continue to make improvements, but I believe it's important that we have a mobile-friendly website.

According to Google Analytics, on any given day a quarter to a third of our sessions are from mobile devices, but those sessions only last half as long and only view half as many pages as a session from a desktop. I'm willing to bet that developing a mobile friendly website will not only increase the length of sessions, but lead the share of mobile sessions rising.

That said, I will see about including an option for users to force the desktop version of the site, which would presumably make it much as it was before (but still including some changes made to desktop, like the new widths).

The override option is in.

Your Menu -> Edit Profile -> Options -> Force Desktop Version?

There haven't been any other changes in the last few days...the sidebar is set to a dynamic width, so it'll be larger on bigger screens and smaller on smaller screens, and it looks like the link in the shoutbox is stretching it. It looks like with the link you need a resolution width of ~1300px for the shoutbox not to stretch.

The best way to handle it would probably be for the code to detect URLs and then through something like an API use an existing service to shorten it...I know Google's link shorter has an API for something like that. I just haven't decided whether its worth it to keep the existing shoutbox though (other options include coding a new shoutbox, moving it to its own page or tab, or moving it so that it takes up the full page width and is above or below the forum (as many other regions do)).

There haven't been any other changes in the last few days...the sidebar is set to a dynamic width, so it'll be larger on bigger screens and smaller on smaller screens, and it looks like the link in the shoutbox is stretching it. It looks like with the link you need a resolution width of ~1300px for the shoutbox not to stretch.

The best way to handle it would probably be for the code to detect URLs and then through something like an API use an existing service to shorten it...I know Google's link shorter has an API for something like that. I just haven't decided whether its worth it to keep the existing shoutbox though (other options include coding a new shoutbox, moving it to its own page or tab, or moving it so that it takes up the full page width and is above or below the forum (as many other regions do)).

I'd be fine with that last option.

My main concern is that the scroll bar isn't showing up for me, when in the past it did.

Oh look. A new addition to the sidebar.

WOAH.  Cool 10/10

Don't know if it's possible, but something like that for our Steam group would be pretty cool, too. Might help facilitate playing together by showing who's online and what they're playing.

Don't know if it's possible, but something like that for our Steam group would be pretty cool, too. Might help facilitate playing together by showing who's online and what they're playing.

Good idea...I'll have to look into if it's possible at some point.

The override option is in.

Your Menu -> Edit Profile -> Options -> Force Desktop Version?

I turned this on and it didn't work...

It worked for everything except for the sidebar, which is still on top of the rest of the forum.

The override option is in.

Your Menu -> Edit Profile -> Options -> Force Desktop Version?

I turned this on and it didn't work...

It worked for everything except for the sidebar, which is still on top of the rest of the forum.

Odd, it works completely for me.

Many mobile devices/browsers by default scale websites to a higher resolution in an attempt to make the whole site appear on the browser without having to scroll horizontally. The mobile version of the site forces the browser to use the actual resolution of the device with no scaling, while the option to force the desktop version removes that restriction so that the resolution scales beyond what would trigger the sidebar to move to the top.

My guess is that your device/browser doesn't do this and actually uses its native resolution by default, which would still trigger the mobile site. Perhaps it's an older device?

Out of curiosity, go to this website and post back the numbers for everything related to width: http://ryanve.com/lab/dimensions/

The birthday box has been moved from the newsfeed sidebar to the index page sidebar, and now takes the specified timezone of the viewer into account. As before, it will only show if a member has a birthday today.

And with that, the newsfeed sidebar has been removed...that's not to say there won't be one in the future, but I never really knew what to put in it and this way there's more space for the actual posts.

Well, this is a rather quick reversal from your earlier observation just a few days ago that the sidebar isn't particularly useful because of how rarely it changes.

I don't think I ever said the sidebar wasn't useful, I think I said that it's unlikely people are checking it every time they refresh the front page because the information on it doesn't change often.

And really, it still hasn't...birthdays will update once a day, and the MC server doesn't have all that many people on it lol