There’s so many issues that I’m not sure where to start…
1st. Yes. I’m not receiving any mail from the forum anymore. Not for a PM nor for anything else.
It used to be PMs would also send me an email.
2nd.
Performance is worse on mobile as a whole.
Across several browsers. The one I use the most being AdBlock browser.
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://play.google.com/store/apps/details%3Fid%3Dorg.adblockplus.browser
Firefox, Chrome, and the built in Samsung browser also all have the same issues (not a browser thing).
Specifically.
Load times for actions can some times be either really fast, or really laggy.
Leading me to think of it as an infrastructure issue (the database is lagging or concurrent calls are causing the lag).
It is not an “internet speed” issue, as I’m connected via wifi 99% of the day and pretty much always when visiting the forums.
The issue is usually most noticeable as you scroll long discussions, just because the posts literally start to take more time to load up and the page stutters (some of that is to be expected because of how lazy loading works. The DB response time however is not consistent, leading to the issues being more noticeable).
Why is it a problem?
It’s particularly pesky when it comes to creating responses and needing to re-read the thread from mobile.
You have to close out the response (back arrow) in order to do this.
This causes the posts to load which takes a bit.
If you touched the screen in the meantime. Which almost always happens, you are very likely to have hit one of the many links found after the topic.
At which point the browser just starts to load a new page.
That’s the worst thing I have been running into over and over - to the point if I have trouble loading posts while scrolling I won’t even start to post a reply.
3rd thing.
YouTube videos will literally just lock up the browsers (adblock at least. Haven’t come across a YouTube link yet using the stock Samsung).
I very much doubt this is an issue with just the one browser though. Even if it can be because of the nature of the browser (block anything that generates ads).
It just isn’t very common behavior for the page to be locked up - which leads me to think it’s not related.
4th thing.
Based on the video posted above: why?
You loaded the data. There’s no limit to how much data a web page can hold.
Why would they dump older data and have you load it again as you scroll back up? It makes 0 logical sense…
Even with a billion images in a single thread, A browser on 512MB of ram is more than capable of handling the cached/load visible not visible portion based on the scroll.
Dumping out data that was fetched makes absolutely no sense.
AND, if you think about it, it would cause my problem 2 not to exist.
If when I close the response the messages are just there, loaded and not dumped out, I wouldn’t need to physically wait for anything at all…