Hi everyone,
A lot of you use your board on a phone, and so do your members. For 2.1 we went over the whole board on a small screen and fixed the things that bothered us. Here's what changed.
Menus
The menus were too small to tap comfortably on a phone. We made the rows bigger and gave every action an icon. On a phone, a menu now opens at the bottom of the screen instead of in a small box next to the button, which is a lot easier to reach with one hand.
This goes for the menus all over the board: topic options, moderation, filters, sorting and so on.
Board index and topics
We removed the Forums / Latest tab bar on phones. Your forums now start right under the header.
The index has one header with the view menu and the New topic button.
Topics have Watch, Moderate, More and Reply together at the top.
Forum rows now adapt to the space they get, so they also look right in a narrow column.
The activity stream uses the full width of the screen on phones.
What shows on phones
You have more control over this now:
Widgets: per widget you can pick whether it shows below the page, collapsed, not at all, or only on phones.
Theme Studio: you can preview your theme on desktop, tablet and phone, and style something for phones only.
Page Studio: each section and block can be shown everywhere, on phones only, or on larger screens only.
Your board as an app
Members can already add your board to their home screen. We've improved this quite a bit, and it now has its own page in the admin panel (Settings, then Mobile app).
Set the app name, icon and start-up colour. You upload one image and we create all the sizes. There's a phone preview next to the form.
Pick which page the app opens on.
A small install bar can show under the header after a few visits. You choose after how many visits and who gets to see it. If someone closes it, it stays away for 30 days.
Push notifications now show your board's icon and name, in the member's language. Several replies in the same topic are grouped into one notification.
The app icon shows the number of unread alerts and messages.
Members can pull down to refresh.
Admin panel
The admin panel works a lot better on a phone too. Tables become cards, pages no longer scroll sideways, and the menu no longer squeezes the page.
More news soon!
