Reading these forums on an Android tablet

rackhamgreg74

Has anyone come across this issue and/or know of a fix?
I'm trying to view these forums on my Android tablet and when I visit them in my browser, I get taken to the vBulletin mobile version (which looks horrible, but that's not what my issue is).

For some reason, I don't get any buttons to see other than the first page of threads in a post. Once the post-count exceeds that first page, I can't read any of them. This happens whether I'm logged in or not.

Also, when I click to see the forums in the "full web version", it errors out and I can't see anything. I've tried this on the default Android brower, Firefox, and Google Chrome. I also get this error on my iPhone as well using the default browser so it can't just be my system settings.

Anyone know what's the best way to view these forums on a mobile device?

Cheers and thanks in advance.

zebular

rackhamgreg74 wrote: »

Has anyone come across this issue and/or know of a fix?
I'm trying to view these forums on my Android tablet and when I visit them in my browser, I get taken to the vBulletin mobile version (which looks horrible, but that's not what my issue is).

For some reason, I don't get any buttons to see other than the first page of threads in a post. Once the post-count exceeds that first page, I can't read any of them. This happens whether I'm logged in or not.

Also, when I click to see the forums in the "full web version", it errors out and I can't see anything. I've tried this on the default Android brower, Firefox, and Google Chrome. I also get this error on my iPhone as well using the default browser so it can't just be my system settings.

Anyone know what's the best way to view these forums on a mobile device?

Cheers and thanks in advance.

This is a known issue, for now here is a work-around to get back to the default style:

zebular wrote: »

This might let you see the options again:
http://nw-forum.perfectworld.com/profile.php?do=editoptions&styleid=1

If you can see the options, choose the first choice: "Default Style"

Try Opera's Free Tablet Browser, I'm able to use it on my iPod to browse the forums and site when needed without going into a mobile style in the forum settings (which is bugged anyway).

rackhamgreg74

That would be great, but it seems I can't even log into the forums on tablet now. Even tried clearing my history and cache, but no luck.

I'll try again later. Maybe I'll see if my tablet allows me to turn off the mobile site settings that way, instead of just this site.


EDIT: Yup that worked. I went into my Android web browser settings and selected the option to "Request desktop site" and avoid using the mobile version completely. Now I'm able to log in and post like I would on my desktop PC.

zebular

rackhamgreg74 wrote: »

That would be great, but it seems I can't even log into the forums on tablet now. Even tried clearing my history and cache, but no luck.

I'll try again later. Maybe I'll see if my tablet allows me to turn off the mobile site settings that way, instead of just this site.


EDIT: Yup that worked. I went into my Android web browser settings and selected the option to "Request desktop site" and avoid using the mobile version completely. Now I'm able to log in and post like I would on my desktop PC.

Great, glad to hear!