Go Back  Bike Forums > Bike Forums > General Cycling Discussion
Reload this Page >

Is there a mobile version of bikeforums.net?

Notices
General Cycling Discussion Have a cycling related question or comment that doesn't fit in one of the other specialty forums? Drop on in and post in here! When possible, please select the forum above that most fits your post!

Is there a mobile version of bikeforums.net?

Old 04-10-10, 06:24 AM
  #1  
Heeeeeere's Johnny!
Thread Starter
 
live311's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: central CT
Posts: 413

Bikes: DeBernardi Zona, Trek 7.1 FX

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Is there a mobile version of bikeforums.net?

Browsing the full site on my Zune HD is a pain in the ass.
live311 is offline  
Old 04-10-10, 10:25 AM
  #2  
Membership Not Required
 
wahoonc's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: On the road-USA
Posts: 16,855

Bikes: Giant Excursion, Raleigh Sports, Raleigh R.S.W. Compact, Motobecane? and about 20 more! OMG

Mentioned: 5 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 70 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 15 Times in 14 Posts
Originally Posted by live311
Browsing the full site on my Zune HD is a pain in the ass.
Not that I have found, I use Opera Light to browse. You can also try https://www.google.com/gwt/n I have used it a couple of times with limited success. You have to email yourself the resulting address to make it work...at least I did. FWIW I browse mobile on an elderly Blackberry 8830.

Aaron
__________________
Webshots is bailing out, if you find any of my posts with corrupt picture files and want to see them corrected please let me know. :(

ISO: A late 1980's Giant Iguana MTB frameset (or complete bike) 23" Red with yellow graphics.

"Cycling should be a way of life, not a hobby.
RIDE, YOU FOOL, RIDE!"
_Nicodemus

"Steel: nearly a thousand years of metallurgical development
Aluminum: barely a hundred
Which one would you rather have under your butt at 30mph?"
_krazygluon
wahoonc is offline  
Old 04-10-10, 05:01 PM
  #3  
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Flowery Branch, GA
Posts: 103
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 1 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Originally Posted by wahoonc
You can also try https://www.google.com/gwt/n I have used it a couple of times with limited success.
Thanks for the link; my ancient Blackjack II couldn't keep up with these dang-blamed young whippersnapper sites.
Ludeykrus is offline  
Old 04-10-10, 07:16 PM
  #4  
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Miami, FL
Posts: 197

Bikes: 08 Giant OCR C2, 05 Specalized Hardrock Sport Disk

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
iPhone works great with this site. I spend a good amount of the work day here, on a boating forum, looking at new bike headlights and other stuff - and I can play various games while texting.

Makes for a much better work day
Seagull01 is offline  
Old 04-10-10, 07:25 PM
  #5  
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Rochester, NY
Posts: 903

Bikes: 2010 Kona Dr. Dew, Moose Bicycle XXL (fat bike), Yuba Mundo V3

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time in 1 Post
I disagree that the iPhone "works great" with the site. It's more or less usable, but takes forever to load pages.
Arcanum is offline  
Old 04-10-10, 09:56 PM
  #6  
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Mar 2010
Location: Kansas
Posts: 64

Bikes: What is a bicycle?

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Writing this comment on a Blackberry Tour.

I don't have any issues with this site, under either the native browser, or Opera.
smith-great is offline  
Old 04-11-10, 02:59 PM
  #7  
Senior Member
 
DieselDan's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: Beaufort, South Carolina, USA and surrounding islands.
Posts: 8,521

Bikes: Cannondale R500, Motobecane Messenger

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 11 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time in 1 Post
An app for iPod Touch and iPhone would be nice. I'd even pay for both an app and membership despite some of the racist overtones the mods perpetuate.
DieselDan is offline  
Old 04-11-10, 04:36 PM
  #8  
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: IL-USA
Posts: 1,859
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 111 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 5 Times in 5 Posts
There's a new request for this every few months in the "user assistance" forum.

The old board used to load slowly in my Windows phone, pages took 45-60 seconds to load, but it would load and work. The new site software takes ~5 minutes to load a page, which just "doesn't work" for me.


-------

All the websites got fat and lazy with DSL and broadband, many pages approach 1 meg, for what is often less than 50K of actual content text.

Bottom line is, mobile devices are the future,,,, smartphones becoming more comon, netbooks, now e-book readers with wifi...... all this silly junk shoveled into websites now isn't visible or useful on a phone screen; some like Flash won't work at all.

Mobile sites need to be lightweight--strip out all the crap, back to HTML only and no images.
~
Doug5150 is offline  
Old 04-12-10, 10:11 PM
  #9  
Senior Member
 
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Rochester, NY
Posts: 903

Bikes: 2010 Kona Dr. Dew, Moose Bicycle XXL (fat bike), Yuba Mundo V3

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 1 Time in 1 Post
I'm trying out the site in Opera Mini, which was just released on the iPhone. It is dramatically faster than Safari Mobile, though the formatting buttons on the post form apparently don't work for some reason.
Arcanum is offline  
Old 04-14-10, 06:45 PM
  #10  
Le Tour
 
cycle life's Avatar
 
Join Date: May 2007
Location: Chicago
Posts: 154

Bikes: Schwinn Super Sport

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
An Iphone app would be sweet
cycle life is offline  
Old 04-15-10, 03:23 PM
  #11  
Bike ≠ Car ≠ Ped.
 
BarracksSi's Avatar
 
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Washington, DC
Posts: 13,861

Bikes: Some bikes. Hell, they're all the same, ain't they?

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 2 Post(s)
Liked 5 Times in 4 Posts
Originally Posted by cycle life
An Iphone app would be sweet
An app would be sweet, but as much as I'd like one for my iPhone, it'd leave other phone users floundering with the full site.

I don't know of other forums that have slimmed-down mobile versions of their sites. The Washington Post, as one of many examples, has a mobile-specific site that loads much more quickly and is formatted to be easily usable on a small screen. Something similar for a forum would be pretty awesome.
BarracksSi is offline  
Old 04-20-10, 06:23 AM
  #12  
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: IL-USA
Posts: 1,859
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 111 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 5 Times in 5 Posts
Originally Posted by BarracksSi
...I don't know of other forums that have slimmed-down mobile versions of their sites. The Washington Post, as one of many examples, has a mobile-specific site that loads much more quickly and is formatted to be easily usable on a small screen. Something similar for a forum would be pretty awesome.
They do exist.
The biggest forum I know of that does is AR15.com-

regular site: https://www.ar15.com/

mobile site: https://www.ar15.com/mobile

The same forum message content is viewable on both for free, but only (paying) forum members can post on the mobile site. I don't know what software they use.

...I might never have known about the mobile site at all, except that when a user posts from it, the website software automatically adds a special sig that says "posted from AR15.com mobile".
~
Doug5150 is offline  
Old 04-20-10, 07:28 AM
  #13  
Canadian eh?
 
Join Date: May 2002
Location: Toronto
Posts: 2,135

Bikes: 2020 Specialized Roubaix Expert

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 131 Post(s)
Liked 96 Times in 54 Posts
HowardForums.com uses WiForums to make their site WAP compatible.
WorldIRC is offline  
Old 04-20-10, 08:44 AM
  #14  
Heeeeeere's Johnny!
Thread Starter
 
live311's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: central CT
Posts: 413

Bikes: DeBernardi Zona, Trek 7.1 FX

Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 0 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 0 Times in 0 Posts
Another forum I frequent has a wap version but that doesn't render correctly on my Zune HD. I'm beginning to think that there are issues with the browser on this thing that will never be fixed. That's too bad as this is otherwise a great little gadget and there's definitely advertising $$$ to be made off a mobile version of any web site. Thanks for the replies.
live311 is offline  
Old 04-20-10, 12:32 PM
  #15  
Out fishing with Annie on his lap, a cigar in one hand and a ginger ale in the other, watching the sunset.
 
Tom Stormcrowe's Avatar
 
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: South Florida
Posts: 16,057

Bikes: Techna Wheelchair and a Sun EZ 3 Recumbent Trike

Mentioned: 3 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 9 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 22 Times in 17 Posts
We are working on a microdevice version, but it's not ready for any form of release yet. It's on the horizon for sometime this year is all I can say right now. There are micro versions for vB3.8 or earlier, but they are not compatible with vB 4 and neither is the database as it's now coded backward compatible to older software for vB.

I'll keep you all updated, though, as I get more information.
__________________
. “He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster. And if you gaze for long into an abyss, the abyss gazes also into you.”- Fredrick Nietzsche

"We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals." - Immanuel Kant
Tom Stormcrowe is offline  
Old 04-20-10, 03:21 PM
  #16  
Pedaled too far.
 
Artkansas's Avatar
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: La Petite Roche
Posts: 12,851
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 11 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 7 Times in 7 Posts
Somehow the image of someone riding a bike while looking at Bike Forums popped into my head, with the predictable result of distracted riding.
__________________
"He who serves all, best serves himself" Jack London

Originally Posted by Bjforrestal
I don't care if you are on a unicycle, as long as you're not using a motor to get places you get props from me. We're here to support each other. Share ideas, and motivate one another to actually keep doing it.
Artkansas is offline  
Old 04-22-10, 08:10 AM
  #17  
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: IL-USA
Posts: 1,859
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 111 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 5 Times in 5 Posts
Google has some sort of conversion-thing for mobile uses. I have seen it used for the Network 54 forums, but I don't know if it works with everything else. When you visit a site with your mobile phone that uses it, there is a line of text at the top of the page that says something like "formatted for mobile by Google".

The funny (predictable?) part I have seen more than once is that in some instances it will strip out all the actual page content, and leave only the ads. And the ads didn't appear to be just Google ads, they were just the usual assortment of banner ads....
~
Doug5150 is offline  
Old 05-03-10, 06:56 AM
  #18  
Senior Member
 
Join Date: May 2005
Location: IL-USA
Posts: 1,859
Mentioned: 0 Post(s)
Tagged: 0 Thread(s)
Quoted: 111 Post(s)
Likes: 0
Liked 5 Times in 5 Posts
I was pressed for time in the previous post, and just remembered to get back to it........

There is ONE other thing that I see online with my phone, that is fantastically infuriating.

If you're a webmaster and you use Google to format pages for mobile, then don't be an idiot and make CERTAIN that there's a plain-HTML, working hyperlink that can get the user to the real actual web page, in the event that huge chunks of the Google-formatted attempt are missing.

I've seen web forums where the login box wasn't in the Google-formatted page, and the link that is supposed to take you to the real web page just circled back to the Google translation....... that didn't work.
~
Doug5150 is offline  
Related Topics
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
folmonty
Folding Bikes
3
11-23-17 10:16 AM
eja_ bottecchia
General Cycling Discussion
10
11-22-12 12:02 AM
randyjawa
Classic & Vintage
3
03-16-11 04:38 AM

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are Off
Pingbacks are Off
Refbacks are Off


Thread Tools
Search this Thread

Contact Us - Archive - Advertising - Cookie Policy - Privacy Statement - Terms of Service -

Copyright © 2024 MH Sub I, LLC dba Internet Brands. All rights reserved. Use of this site indicates your consent to the Terms of Use.