Who ruined the site by forcing mobile on me!

[slclick]

Looks like a work in progress, perhaps a little bit of patience and it'll get there.

 

[zim]

Looks like a work in progress, perhaps a little bit of patience and it'll get there.

+1

After all if we can all put up with Canon's rate of sensor change we can surely put up with this wip

...... well someone had to introdure DR into this somehow

...... ok but don't call me surely

 

[zim]

I generally read CR on my Samsung tablet, and while the front page of the site is different, the recent posts are still in more or less the same place as it was before, and the posts look exactly the same on the forum pages.
Must be an Apple bug.

Even works fine on a Hudl

 

[setterguy]

I do not like the new layout and it makes movement within the site so much more difficult with all the scrolling involved. Seems to me to be a tremendous waste of space, time and effort. Please go back to what was acceptable and better in the eyes of many viewers.

 

[Mt Spokane Photography]

I imagine Facebook want the CR traffic and can monitor us all the more, to send even more adverts at us.

Facebook does not place ads on CR, Google Does. The ads you see are based on web sites you visit, and CR has no part in selecting which ads you see.

 

[Act444]

Also not a fan. In fact, I thought I was the only one unhappy with the mobile change; glad to see I'm not alone. On iPhone, when in vertical (portrait) mode, to view the forum trending topics you have to scroll to the bottom, which can be a pain to do repeatedly. But if you tilt your phone to read in landscape, the trending topics disappear COMPLETELY! I usually read the site in landscape so it took some time to discover what was going on once the change was made.

But that by itself doesn't bother me. What does, though, is that there is no longer a way to call up the CR desktop site on mobile. The desktop site is far easier to navigate IMO. It just redirects to the mobile site, so you're stuck. I respectfully ask the owners of the site to consider re-enabling this feature. Thanks!

 

[impeka]

Hello everyone,

Developer here. I see that some of you want a desktop version and unfortunately due to how responsive sites behave your browser doesn't really care what device you're on, instead it only cares about your resolution. This is why some of you have noticed that requesting the desktop site does nothing.

I'm not a UI monster and the intent was never to take away control from the users so I implemented a small workaround that, I'm hoping, will work for now. When on the site, you can toggle the desktop version by adding the query string "desktop=1" to the URL. So http://www.canonrumors.com/?desktop=1 should create a cookie on your system that tells the website to ignore your resolution and render the site as is. You can undo this by visiting http://www.canonrumors.com/?desktop=0. This is a cookie based solution so if you have cookies turned off, this will not work.

Some of you might have a cached version of the site so if this doesn't work try doing a hard refresh (ctrl-F5 on Windows machines).

I hope this helps some of you out.

Cross posting this from the other thread.

 

[Act444]

^ just want to say that worked, THANK YOU!!

 

[Canon Rumors Guy]

Thanks for the discussion on the mobile issues some users are experiencing.

We have returned to the previous mobile site for the people that want that experience. Clicking through to the desktop version should give you the full view of the site. If you're not seeing that, clear the cache on your device and try again.

 

[ReggieABrown]

THANK YOU for going back to the old way!! Now the site is pretty again lol

 

[Mitch.Conner]

Thanks for the discussion on the mobile issues some users are experiencing.

We have returned to the previous mobile site for the people that want that experience. Clicking through to the desktop version should give you the full view of the site. If you're not seeing that, clear the cache on your device and try again.

Thank you very much. I've got the desktop site loaded on my mobile device now.

 

[cayenne]

I know no one usually like change....
I'd not been on in awhile...but just recently noticed the new front page..and it just isn't as easy to see/read. It doesn't seem clearly as well defined in the areas..the articles and forum links on the side all run together, all seems too "white" with no good column or horizontal definitions that are easy to see.

Just my $0.02,

cayenne

 

[cayenne]

+1

I don't mind change, but I dislike this change. At least give us the option to view the page the "old" way for those that prefer it that way.

How do you set that?

 

[Canon Rumors Guy]

+1

I don't mind change, but I dislike this change. At least give us the option to view the page the "old" way for those that prefer it that way.

How do you set that?

The old site is gone forever.