New Reg mobile site - feedback here!

Err, shouldn't you be using an adaptive layout on the main site and dumping the whole desktop / mobile split? Every time I get dumped onto a mobile version of a website I find myself rapidly looking for a way to switch back to the desktop one.

Not keeping up with current fashion.

You've missed out the banner, fixed at the top or side of the page that expands when you pinch zoom into the main text and thereby obliterates the stuff you were trying to zoom into. You also seem to have gone for a readable font, rather than the "Oh, lets use the smallest font the device will do" option that some sites go for. Another missed opportunity to keep up with fashion is that it loads and renders in a sensible time.

However, you do seem to have come up with a compact, neat usable layout.

Basically, it ignores current fashion and does the right things, and seems to do them well - I like it.

Asus / Google Nexus 7, first gen. Stock Chrome browser.

Will it auto direct mobile users to the mobile site?

Because I actually find the desktop site easy enough to use on a mobile device (HTC OneX+, Android 4.2.2, Chrome).

With regard to the actual mobile site, I like the main header filters (Hardware etc.), but couldn't immediately see any sub header filters (Laptops, Tablets etc.), which I do use quite a lot. Although, I do like the auto formatting of the articles, so may give the mobile site a try for a few days.

RSS Feed Links

One problem that hasn't been fixed is that the links in the RSS feed still land you at the desktop site (I'm using Feedly on Android). The procedure should be:

* Default to mobile site for mobile devices/browsers

* Give a link to the desktop site

* And a cookie to make the selection permanent

I like everything except the new color scheme... Used to be able to tell if an article was visited or not, but cannot tell the difference in this version. Could it just be my color blindness?

wot no responsive

It's 2014, I'd have thought anyone doing mobile support is going to be doing responsive now? It's surely better for so many reasons:

- better support for tablets and other devices, not just two different fixed layouts

- same URL for article on mobile/tablet/desktop - pretty much all browsers allow you to sync bookmarks between devices, and users posting links in forums and social media works much better if you don't have different mobile URLs

- cuts down on duplicate code (as same code serves all devices), mobile site can be fully-featured instead of a second rate cut down neutered version that is often the case these days

There is the issue that some old browsers (IE7/8) don't do so well with responsive, Foundation doesn't support IE8 or below. But we've found it simple to just put a server side detection on old devices and serve them back a non responsive template. It's not ideal, but then if you're on IE8, nothing is really and half the internet already won't work for you. So the reg looking a bit naff is going to be the least of your worries. And who on earth reading the reg is going to do so on IE8 or below?

Where is the content?

I navigated to the mobile site on my SGS3 stock browser. Top half the screen taken up with an advert for Microsoft Cloud, bottom half filled with a picture attached to the main story.

Now I don't object to adverts on El Reg, its a fair price for the service, but its not much of a service when you have to scroll a whole screen before you can see the headlines.

mobile vs desktop

Personally I use the mobile site from my desktop, as I'm fed up with the flashy advert heavy content on the desktop site dragging my machine's performance down...is the move in the new mobile site towards more adverts? I hope not, as it could take me back to square one

Images 2nd class citizens

It looks fine on WP8.1 using IE 11 on a Lumia 1020.

Only thing that got me was tapping away on the images next to the headline didn't take me to the story! They should be hyperlinked, like the headline, IMHO.

Auto detect opt-in?

I like the new mobile site. Is there a way to opt-in to the auto-detect so that I start seeing the mobile version on my phone before the big switch is made for everyone?

It works.

On Blackberry (rather old) OS6 -- seems usable.

Previously dumped the Reg from my mobile because the cookies reminder screen kept following me down the page, obscuring text, and I couldn't see to click to get rid of it.

m.forums

1) Is the mobile forum going to get the edit post feature of the desktop version (I'll edit this myself if does already...)?

2) Is the mobile version finally going to get post icons to choose from?

3) It appears that text re-flow stops at a certain maximum width in the current implementation (it didn't with the old version, and also not in the article). Is that a concious decision? Not a big deal, but I'm not sure why you'd need to.