I brought this up elsewhere with Clint Cantwell but figured it needs to be its own discussion.
The new fresh look of the home page on the free side looks great on a desktop or laptop.
HOWEVER, while it is usable on my large iPad Pro 12.9" in LANDSCAPE mode (the iPad even in that mode has an annoying wrap of the menu that should not happen), I am finding the new home page on the free side to be totally unusable on my phone in any orientation.
Here is portrait on an iPad 12.9. There is a crazy wrap of some of the boxes into a 3 character wide column! And for whatever reason, we get a hamburger menu on there, even though it is a large device screen.
In landscape mode on the iPad Pro 12.9, we go back to normal menus, but with an annoying wrap. Rest of the page looks better. Note that I am seeing some obstructive advertising over content, even though signed into the Pitmaster Club.
Here is where it gets really bad. iPhone 13, running iOS 18.3.2, in portrait mode (also logged into Pitmaster Club). I can see little content, and if I try to expand the hamburger menu to select somethign, an advertising video comes up and obstructs much of the pull down menu!
Landscape on the phone is even worse! The entire screen is covered with the non scrolling header, the bottom corner with an advertising video, and you cannot scroll or select anything. Well, you can SCROLL, but it is scrolling behind the fixed header, and as much as I love looking at Meathead's handsome mug, it would be nice to be able to see content beyond his face and the title of the website....
Since only the home page has been refreshed, and the rest of the site if you navigate seems to have the prior look, I advise quickly reverting this until more testing is done on mobile devices. Since we have no app, we need folks web browsers to work, and more people these days browse on mobile devices than on desktops and laptops...
Jim
The new fresh look of the home page on the free side looks great on a desktop or laptop.
HOWEVER, while it is usable on my large iPad Pro 12.9" in LANDSCAPE mode (the iPad even in that mode has an annoying wrap of the menu that should not happen), I am finding the new home page on the free side to be totally unusable on my phone in any orientation.
Here is portrait on an iPad 12.9. There is a crazy wrap of some of the boxes into a 3 character wide column! And for whatever reason, we get a hamburger menu on there, even though it is a large device screen.
In landscape mode on the iPad Pro 12.9, we go back to normal menus, but with an annoying wrap. Rest of the page looks better. Note that I am seeing some obstructive advertising over content, even though signed into the Pitmaster Club.
Here is where it gets really bad. iPhone 13, running iOS 18.3.2, in portrait mode (also logged into Pitmaster Club). I can see little content, and if I try to expand the hamburger menu to select somethign, an advertising video comes up and obstructs much of the pull down menu!
Landscape on the phone is even worse! The entire screen is covered with the non scrolling header, the bottom corner with an advertising video, and you cannot scroll or select anything. Well, you can SCROLL, but it is scrolling behind the fixed header, and as much as I love looking at Meathead's handsome mug, it would be nice to be able to see content beyond his face and the title of the website....
Since only the home page has been refreshed, and the rest of the site if you navigate seems to have the prior look, I advise quickly reverting this until more testing is done on mobile devices. Since we have no app, we need folks web browsers to work, and more people these days browse on mobile devices than on desktops and laptops...
Jim
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