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"Hey we have a mobile version of boards now"

Raptamei··2 votes·1,998 views

"We still load the post content at the very end, so you get to sit there and stare at the very important background and borders for 20 seconds before the actual text finally appears."

"Oh, and if you timeout or dc during that time, it won't auto refresh because technically the page is there and it'll never stop loading, but if you hit refresh, it loads everything from the beginning and you lose your recent update status."

"Cheers and bring a laptop next time."

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RiotRiot Baconhawk3 votes

We are working on optimization. Would appreciate any other constructive feedback you might have.

Raptamei1 votes

[{quoted}](name=Riot Baconhawk,realm=NA,application-id=bzRrPGQO,discussion-id=PYKvvGXz,comment-id=0000,timestamp=2015-08-24T18:33:20.535+0000)

We are working on optimization. Would appreciate any other constructive feedback you might have.

As you can tell, I was furious at the time I wrote that. (Does "this board infuriates mobile users" count as constructive feedback?) Anyway, loading a page from the boards on mobile takes an order of magnitude longer than loading just about any other site and it loads everything else first and then the text.

It does not fail gracefully if you lose connection while loading; unlike most other sites, it doesn't throw a timeout error and try again when you regain connection, it just sits there with a background picture and never tries again (but when you tap refresh, it downloads the picture again).

The pages also seem to be very heavy and thus get swapped out very quickly when you tab out - I'm on Android with 2GB RAM, but the iPhone 6 with 1GB probably has an even harder time.

In short, what we need is an app. :P

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