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Re:Changes in rankings of smartphone search results by epistasis on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @09:07AM (#5867849)
As a mobile user, if I notice that I'm getting served different content and it doesn't let me do what I could on the full site, it offends me so much that I leave and do my best not to come back. Edit: the other thing that sends me running are bad UI such as attempts at flicking left/right that interfere with vertical scrolling, pages that can't be zoomed, or a page that changes layout on orientation changes and keeps the font the same size. All of these are anti-patterns from people that have thought shallowly about mobile but mistaken it for insight.

Wikipedia has a horrifyingly bad iOS site, but it's the only mobile site I return to; but there's no other site on the Internet that can do that.

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Re:Changes in rankings of smartphone search results by coin on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @11:19AM (#5868540)
I could not agree more. I wish site authors would not waste thier time with poorly mobile optimized versions. Just serve me the desktop version, my mobile browser can handle it.
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Re:Changes in rankings of smartphone search results by moepstar on Wednesday June 12, 2013 @03:28PM (#5870121)
I honestly wish i could upvote you more than once - exactly my thoughts.

I don't know, but it surely pre-dates the smartphone age when the installed browser wasn't able to cope with a more or less fully featured website.

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Re:Changes in rankings of smartphone search results by snogglethorpe on Friday June 14, 2013 @05:12AM (#5878988)
> Wikipedia has a horrifyingly bad iOS site

Is what iOS gets different than what Android gets, "http://en.m.wikipedia.org/..."?

On Android phone with Firefox, at least, that site seems almost perfect: all extraneous cruft removed, important sidebars intelligently incorporated, the main article text provided in nice readable reflowed form, and all other sections expandable but closed by default. It's easy to read and quick to navigate. I can't think offhand of anything I'd change about it.

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