Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-168424-20180521212704/@comment-1038387-20180524181040

Wedhro wrote: I mean, Oasis is thought for a vertical screen i.e. smartphone and tablets; lots of space wasted on the sides, crammed menus and such. Nobody write texts or photoshops if has access to an actual PC, and if so it's unlikely they will switch to their mobile device for using the wiki. There's fringe cases of course, but come on...

EDIT: it's also about usability: once I tried uploading an image on mobile with categories and such and it took me x5 the time it takes me on PC. So tomorrow I'll be forced to use a skin focused on mobile device for a website that I would never use on mobile.

Everything, not just Wikia, takes 5 times as long on a mobile than on a PC. Touchscreen, fat fingers, three keyboard toggles to get to [ and ], lazy loading... mobile internet isn't built for writing. It's made for reading and texting. That's what Mercury and Discussions are for.

Oasis isn't built for Mobile per se, but it is designed with readers in mind. Narrower columns of text improve readability. One look and you can see every word on a line. No head turning. Limited eye turning. No kazillion links that mean nothing.

Have you uploaded an image on Oasis on a desktop? It works exactly the same - Special:Upload and Special:MultipleUpload still exist. They're not linked where you're used to, but that's normal. You can put them in your Toolbar.