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.
I can’t even imagine how bad 10 year old safari would be handling the site. I definitely don’t have any way to test or debug it myself. If you are savvy at all, try and open the safari debugger console and screenshot what errors come up in there.
It actually handled pre-migration fine, I don’t know what it is about the lemmy code that it doesn’t like - maybe it’s a javascript thing? That’s what someone else said. I sadly don’t have the code chops to know how to effectively use the debug console.
this looks like a decent guide: https://www.lifewire.com/activate-the-debug-console-in-safari-445798
If you get me a good list of errors, i can probably take a look at mitigating them for iphone. We recently fixed a bug for old safari around using regex.
There’s a little message under the “Web Inspector” toggle that says in order to use the web inspector I need to connect my phone to a computer with a cable and use the “Develop” menu in the menu bar … so that’s a Mac only thing apparently. :-(
Your phone is old enough, it might be worth looking into flashing some sort of open source ROM that replaces your old iOS and gives you a newer browser and security updates. It’s actually a bit of a security issue that apple puts on you by not updating their shit.
