Site first page broken in mobile (first time)
Posted: Tue Jul 04, 2017 1:45 pm
Just reporting a problem which has been going on for a while, and might (or not) be steering away new users from ever reaching the forum.
If you are in mobile (namely Android), the very first time you try to access the forum, you get pretty much a blank page in the page which I think is supposed to promote Tapatalk or something:
https:// ut99.org /mobiquo/smartbanner/ads.php?....
This is reproducible anywhere, as long as the site detects you as being in a mobile device, regardless if you're really using a mobile device, or using a desktop with a different user-agent.
In order to enter ut99.org, you have to type again the site URL (which is when an entry at the local storage is saved). But I would say that I might have realized this since I know how these things work, but 98% of the other potential users will just think that the site is broken and probably go away to never be seen again.
To reproduce it, besides the user-agent or the usage of a mobile device, you need to clean the local storage for this site at least, namely the "hide_until" entry, which in case you're using Chrome, you can delete by:
Right Click > Inspect > Application > Storage > Local Storage > https://ut99.org > hide_until (key)
So I would suggest to simply remove that page permanently, even because although the site is not built for mobile, it actually works well in all the devices I have at least, and will probably work even better in many tablets as well these days, and there's the Tapatalk "popup" already when you actually manage to enter the first time (which you have to close in the big X there), which makes the first page redundant anyway, even perhaps suspiciously annoying (since it gives off the vibe of being one of those tacky scam sites with ads on them and whatnot).
If you are in mobile (namely Android), the very first time you try to access the forum, you get pretty much a blank page in the page which I think is supposed to promote Tapatalk or something:
https:// ut99.org /mobiquo/smartbanner/ads.php?....
This is reproducible anywhere, as long as the site detects you as being in a mobile device, regardless if you're really using a mobile device, or using a desktop with a different user-agent.
In order to enter ut99.org, you have to type again the site URL (which is when an entry at the local storage is saved). But I would say that I might have realized this since I know how these things work, but 98% of the other potential users will just think that the site is broken and probably go away to never be seen again.
To reproduce it, besides the user-agent or the usage of a mobile device, you need to clean the local storage for this site at least, namely the "hide_until" entry, which in case you're using Chrome, you can delete by:
Right Click > Inspect > Application > Storage > Local Storage > https://ut99.org > hide_until (key)
So I would suggest to simply remove that page permanently, even because although the site is not built for mobile, it actually works well in all the devices I have at least, and will probably work even better in many tablets as well these days, and there's the Tapatalk "popup" already when you actually manage to enter the first time (which you have to close in the big X there), which makes the first page redundant anyway, even perhaps suspiciously annoying (since it gives off the vibe of being one of those tacky scam sites with ads on them and whatnot).
