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 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.
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.
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.
I’m just explaining how the current frontend works, I think building a script less alternative interface is actually in the cards. There’s just more important things to work on right now
