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Some changes to the way that ads are displayed today have pretty much broken the site on iPhone... depending on how good your eyesight is!
n.b. people with wide images in their signatures have caused the same issue for a long time -- the site usually is quite browsable on iPhone, but if someone with a wide sig has posted in a topic, it causes the site's content to shrink like this.
I have also noticed that the site has an irritating habit of resizing the text portions two or three times after the page has loaded. I assume because some form of background javascript is loading up images/ads or something. It can be quite disruptive when you're reading a post only to have it shrunk up to the side of the screen and then back again after a few more seconds.
We had a very similar report via Facebook, I sent Mike an email -- hopefully we can find a good solution quickly. :)
Sorry, should have left it in a fixed state before stopping.. long story short, Google AdSense banned our ad account.. AdSense is a primary means of supporting the site so we are in emergency mode to fix the problem. Long story short, they don't like the way we display ads responsively (ie. how the site looks when you shrink the browser down). They also didn't like the dropdown menu directly covering the ad either.. so we have a host of problems we are trying to retool quickly.
Anywho, should be fixed.
off topic.
@hodge,
I am writing to you because I am utterly shocked. I thought I was the only one who used virgin mobile :o
Regarding the mobile version, I can't find the search function at all. The search bar is missing or hidden somewhere.
Nexus 7 (Android 4.4.4), Chrome Browser (v37.0.2026.117)
I'm pretty sure that was a known issue with resizing to narrow screens. Even before the recent changes the search bar vanished on my tablet when I rotate from landscape to portrait, and in windowed mode the menu bar and editing tools vanished as well.
