Great job jabronis - attached picture is what the site looks like on an old phone. All the buttons are broken and do nothing, except for the Modlog which somehow is still accessible. Tried different browsers on the phone, tried clearing all the cookies and cache, still doesn’t work.

EDIT: This came off a bit hot and aggro - it just sucks since pre-migration the site worked fine on my dinosaur phone, so I’m pretty frustrated. Makes me appreciate communist web-design (like marxists.org and redsails.org) even more.

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Please stop blaming our beautiful devs, shit sucks but Apple fucked you over by forcibly breaking their own shit, it’s not our devs fault that your phone is on a platform that apple has made out of date for your phone in particular. They genuinely put in a herculean effort to get this thing merged back into Lemmy so that they aren’t stuck doing completely unpaid dev work just for us forever.

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bad take
it is a communists’s duty to make shit accessible to the poor

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Serious question, do you have any idea what you’re even asking for? You gonna mail Layla an Iphone 6 from a decade ago to see if our site works on a shitty outdated version of safaris rendering engine?

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if that’s what it takes, yes
i will fucking steal one if i have to

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i imagine old phones are easy to emulate, although in this specific case it sounds like that’s not even necessary as disabling js in any browser should have a the same problem

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Do you think the devs just don’t give a shit? Being a communist involves actually understanding labor and it’s conditions, not just demanding ready-made commodities, contrary to what Republicans say.

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I think a big part of the problem is that the Lemmy UI (and by extension, the Hexbear UI) doesn’t work properly with Javascript disabled. There are some people who would have the same issue as OP because they deliberately turned off JS even on a device that can support it.

Making the UI work without JS will be a lot of work, but also worth it.

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JS is really the only way live updates can work. Like getting pinged with a notification instead of refreshing the page and seeing one pop up.

Having a barebones fallback UI that doesn’t require JS would be good though.

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tbh I really don’t see the need for live updates on a Reddit-style website. I don’t need to instantly respond to a comment or reply, and I don’t normally stay on the same page long enough that updates would be significantly delayed anyway.

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Why did we leave Lemmy to begin with?

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At the time Lemmy couldn’t handle high usership iirc

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