MetaTalk

I have trouble posting to Meta on my phone. I don't access any personal accounts on my work laptop during the day but when I'm at lunch by myself I'm reading Metafilter on my phone. Here's what I see when I try to post a comment or AskMe response. This is the latest version of Chrome on the latest version of iOS on an iPhone 7.

Portrait: The post box is much wider than the screen and the keyboard is over the box as well. It requires much scrolling left and right which causes a back button event if you aren't careful.

Landscape is even worse. My eyesight isn't what it used to be and I often read in landscape view. But the on-screen keyboard is tall enough to bump into the URL bar and there's no way I can post in landscape view.

I looked at the site in the Chrome dev tools in the mobile view and it looks fine but on the device itself not so much.
posted by bendy on Jun 5, 2018 - 13 comments

Small pony request for "swipe to favorite" feature on mobile devices. [more inside]
posted by misozaki on Sep 19, 2014 - 32 comments

A lot of people have complained about FanFare's professional white background. Well, DRUNK WITH POWER after somehow kludging together a successful CSS theme for /r/MetaFilter with zero experience, I decided to try my hand at giving our new subsite a makeover, too -- the layout is fine, but that glaring white is painful to read in a darkened teevee room. Inspired by the original soothing dark blue color scheme from film/TV review aggregator Metacritic (which discarded it for an unpopular redesign years ago), I put together a complete FanFare theme (screenshot*) that adjusts not just the background and text, but stuff like visited links, link hovering, the pop-up video button and lightbox, posting page notes, live preview area, and the sidebar and Deck ad box. You can install it in Firefox (with Greasemonkey or Stylish), Chrome (with Stylish or Blank Canvas Script Handler), and jailbroken iOS (with Userscript Loader, using this URL) -- it's tested and working properly on all three. [more inside]
posted by Rhaomi on Aug 8, 2014 - 64 comments

On an iPhone, when you have a body of text entered and selected (as if you were going to italicize to quote someone, the "i" button is placed EXACTLY beneath the "Cut/Copy/Paste" dialog box no matter how you scroll. It's infuriating. The only way to get around it seems to be some random combination of zoom and scroll that sometimes results in it becoming unhidden. I can't be the only one who this drives nuts. What if the italicize button were swapped with the "<" button? Does anyone even use that button?
posted by nathancaswell on Dec 11, 2013 - 52 comments

Is there any way to make boldface/italics/links easier when posting comments from an iPhone? [more inside]
posted by Afroblanco on Feb 1, 2013 - 20 comments

Pony request: can we make flagging and favoriting easier on the mobile site? [more inside]
posted by empath on Dec 17, 2010 - 31 comments

Is it possible to start a new post (in AskMe or MetaTalk, say) using the mobile version of Metafilter? Is it possible to contact the mods using the mobile version? I looked, but I didn't see any way to do so.
posted by leahwrenn on Dec 5, 2010 - 24 comments

Pony request: can I see proposed IRL events on my iPhone, in a mobile-friendly format? [more inside]
posted by madcaptenor on Nov 7, 2010 - 6 comments

After I updated my iPhone to iOS4, the "skip to menu" link at the top of the pages of the mobile site no longer works after a page has been reloaded. [more inside]
posted by BitterOldPunk on Jul 13, 2010 - 24 comments

The mobile version of the front page is slightly too wide for Safari on my iPhone. [more inside]
posted by swift on Jan 13, 2010 - 31 comments

Any chance of getting a mobile-formatted MetaFilter for non-iphone devices? [more inside]
posted by modernnomad on Dec 15, 2009 - 36 comments

MetaFilter has a new look on iPhones. [more inside]
posted by pb on Nov 5, 2009 - 162 comments

So, ever since I applied the 3.0 software update to my iPhone, I've run into this problem where occasionally pages (AskMe, MetaTalk, and MeFi proper) load blank... [more inside]
posted by kbanas on Jun 22, 2009 - 37 comments

Post-injection issue: mobile.metafilter.com redirects to www.metafilter.com [more inside]
posted by ChrisR on Jan 27, 2009 - 24 comments

What's the best way to browse MeFi on an iPhone, usually via RSS? [more inside]
posted by butterstick on Jan 5, 2009 - 22 comments

Mefi Mobile Pony: Can we get more than 10 posts on mobile.metafilter.com? [more inside]
posted by pravit on Apr 22, 2008 - 23 comments