OH Forums are Now MOBILE!

Its been over six years since we've launched our forums. During this time it has seen thousands of fresh faces, greetings, meetings, partings, arguments, kind words, life transformations, cathartic rants, and simply happy time pass. It has been with us throughout this time, silently observing and facilitating. But like any wise old man, its bones were getting old. Its joints were aching, and it has been needing a new jolt of energy.

A Mobile World
Did you know that over 30% of you visit our website using a mobile device? For those who do visit us via mobile, we owe you a sincere apology, because our forums have been horrendous on a mobile browser. But things have just changed! Our new forums are completely mobile friendly and compatible with iPhone, Android, and pretty much any other modern smart phone.

Each post, topic, and forum shows up beautifully, with the full set of features, and in nice large font. See the screenshots for yourself.

You dont have do anything different, just browse to the forums like you normally would. This means that you can finally put these away:

Not Just for Mobile
The interface on your desktop browser has also been cleaned up a great deal. There is now less clutter on the page, and the overall experience is a lot cleaner. Check out some more screenshots here!

You will notice that each post no longer has 400 buttons below it. Only the buttons that are relevant to each post show up, making your screen space a lot less cluttered. Also, when you reply to another person's post, the entire post is indented inside, making it a lot easier to figure out who has replied to whom.

Moving Forward
And do remember that this is not in any way a be-all-end-all when it comes to the forums. We are in the process of constantly learning and improving upon what we have, and this is just one step along the way.

We look forward to hearing your thoughts on this.

how do we do a search from the mobile version? How do we access our profiles from the mobile version? Where is the RNY forum ect.?

While it is easier to read, things are horrid on the mobile site...none of the surgery boards (DS, RNY, etc) are listed at all...no way to get to them.

Also by taking all the info off the profile shown, we have NO clue as to type of surgery/or surgeon each person is dealing with and knowing that is a big help with what answers we give someone.

Example, if a person has had a RNY, telling them to take an NSAID is wrong...but DS'er's can take them.

Edited to add: I use an iPhone when I am mobile.

Liz

 We are working on adding the surgery boards back to the mobile forum list. To see the users surgery, click on their avatar.

Doesn't work if the person has a private profile but many still listed their surgery for others to see even if their profile was private. Clicking on their profile doesn't work.

Liz

 Thanks for the feedback. Let me research it and see what we can do about it.

This is the death knell.. they've just made it even harder to help people. Good job, good job.

These changes are horrible. I think you will be seeing less activity instead of more jmho.

Can someone on the OH staff explain why you would take surgery type off a post along with how far out someone is? I didn't see the number of views on post which I will give credit it doesn't need to be there.

Mobile viewing is easier however you have taken away other information that allows us to open or not open a post. With limited time to be on OH you've taken away RESPONDERS opportunity to focus on post they can add value to.

You can see more details by hovering over the members avatar. We'll look into adding back the surgery type and date to the main view. Thanks for the feedback.

Sometimes it works on tablet, sometimes not.