Board Thread:New Features/@comment-24739709-20150518230347/@comment--20150723052705

TheSonofNeptune wrote:

Again, phones are getting to point where they'll display like computers anyway. Since I see you removed that bit. Not to mention if someone were to scroll to the bottom of a page, there's the option for full site view. You're trying to make the point this is about making things easier for mobile viewers, but they're not the ones who do the actual work. Without the users, they wouldn't have the content to look at anyway, (which most people I know on here do through a computer), so changing their infobox which is a vital part of a wiki, to make it easier for mobile viewers to "collect information", isn't an attractive sale.

Desktop users shouldn't have to suffer for mobile viewers, who aren't the ones doing the work. And again I bring up the point, what this is suggesting is making us all use the same infobox. I did a comparison last night, and the new infobox only looks slightly better in mobile, I think that's hardly a reason to change any of my site's infoboxes. The mobile viewers are still going to read the information either way, and if they're having a problem, again, there's a thing such as full site view. They are sort of. I will enable desktop view when I'm making an edit on my mobile device since its easier. If I'm just reading though, mobile view seems to be fine for me. I also didn't remove any bit of my comment. I added on about the designs of Wiki's do matter since I think that is important. We desktop viewers are doing the work, that is very true. However, as Staff is pointing out, Wikia is attracting more mobile viewers than desktop and they are accommodating that. We're "creating content" for people to read. And our readers are mostly on mobile.

I agree it's a lot to take in, and change for us editors on desktop. It may not be the most appealing or most attractive infobox out there, but it's a step towards the future at the moment. Luckily, we users have the option to choose if we want such a change for the Wiki's we contribute to. At least with the infoboxes I'm working with, the portable ones do seem to have a better appearance on mobile, and it's not exactly painful to look at on desktop. The people who put a lot of time and design into their infobox, I can understand the frustration.