Time 'till live, ideas for the future

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[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (8 children)

Maybe subreddit settings should have more options too, like sidebar chat on/off, post and comments chat on/off

Yeah I think this definitely needs to happen. I'll start looking in to it.

Quick question, does the site load slow on mobile for you? I got rid of the banner for mobile, but it still goes very slow on my phone. Is it also that way on your phone browser?

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It seems to work okay on my phone. We do have an open css issue though, the browser is merging less files into css (like a dev mode thing), rather than the server. Once we fix that it should load a bit faster.

Maybe your chat client is connected to a lot of rooms too... that might appear to slow down the page load.

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (6 children)

Sounds great. The phone loads very slow for me on pages without chat, and my friend had the same problem on his phone. I think there's some extra code for mobile that is being activated with iphone perhaps that stalls. It takes me like 30 seconds to load each page because it always hangs in the start, and I'm on the same router as my computer where it loads fine. Not a huge deal, but I'm going to keep looking around, I think they're running some location tracking software with mobile or something that I will disable

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ugh that sounds bad. have never tried with iphone. i will look into this.

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (4 children)

Yeah it just hangs in the beginning... other websites load fine, and it also does this on 4G so I know it's the phone, and not the website or the connection. I'm digging through their "if mobile then..." code, because it looks like there is a lot of crap that simply doesn't need to be there. It honestly seems like it's triggering some request that sits and waits until it times out. If I can just shorten that timeout, or get rid of the request that is apparently only triggered on my phone, then we can fix it. I'm looking in to it.

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Yeah that sounds reasonable, good luck. I wish reddit was a normal responsive site without the alternate mobile templates. Oh well. We can put work into the mobile version too.

[–]magnora7[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Yeah it sucks that it's designed that way. Seems like with how powerful phones are though we don't need a mobile version. So I'd just like to merge the two, and just make it work smoother on mobile. We'll just have to play with it and see what works

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on my girlfriends iphone 6 the site loaded fine, even into chat. so I would try clearing all of your cache and cookies on mobile. also try logging out of the site and repeating. maybe something still has the old ssl cert cached.

[–]magnora7[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Awesome, that's great news. I am using an old version of IOS too, so that's probably the reason. My friend just tried it on his android phone and it worked fine. So I'm going to say the mobile speed issue is solved