Board Thread:Support Requests - Designing Your Wiki/@comment-26404729-20171126234847/@comment-45.232.92.26-20180910222631

Forcing desktop view is a necessity that wikia refuses to acknowledge out of an irrational affection for a "mobile site" that was obsolete from the day it was made.

The mobile site: -Is ugly: It strips out every aspect of the custom theme. It leaves a bland, colorless, textureless page. -Is unmanageable: It tries to refit everything to a mobile screen, but the vertical stretching of content only makes it so much slower and more confusing to navigate. -Is slower than the normal page: How is that even possible?! -Doesn't display images correctly on some or most devices. -Doesn't let you choose, as a user, to permanently switch to the normal site. -And most importantly: Often doesn't even display all the information in an article.

I have visited countless fandom wikias throughout the years and it's always the same shit. I utterly fucking loathe the mobile site and have to force desktop every time I visit any page.

Modern browsers already do a perfectly good job to display desktop sites on mobile, including wikia's. In fact it looks and works perfect on a mobile device. There's no need for a mobile site.

The fact that so many users visit (and are frustrated) every day on mobile devices only makes my points stronger.