OSNews Conversations: www3.osnews.com ?

posted by pandronic on Fri 11th Jan 2008 18:59

Is there any chance you could put v3 at an url of your choosing (like www3.osnews.com), for the v3 fans like myself?

Or at the very least - please make the v3 theme look EXACTLY like v3.

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v3 is gone

by Adam S (Staff) on Fri 11th Jan 2008 19:13 UTC

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2005-04-01

But feel free to work up the CSS and send it in. We'll happily host new themes submitted by our users.

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Mobile

by i3X171UM (4.32) on Fri 11th Jan 2008 19:25 UTC

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2005-08-12

Try http://mobile.osnews.com/

You'll be surprised at how V3-ish it is.

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RE: Mobile

by Adam S (Staff) on Fri 11th Jan 2008 20:29 in reply to "Mobile"

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2005-04-01

Mobile site will remain online, although it will likely getting increasingly optimized for mobile. It used to auto-detect and serve multiple version of the same pages, but that's all likely to go away and it will serve just the mobile optimized version.

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RE: Mobile

by Adam S (Staff) on Fri 11th Jan 2008 20:31 in reply to "Mobile"

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2005-04-01

Also - things you won't get in mobile:

moderation (new mod system coming soon!)
score threshold
native polls (also coming soon)
no "talk" page
ability to log in and recommend, star, or set prefs
and of course -

no conversations.

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RE[2]: Mobile

by i3X171UM (4.32) on Fri 11th Jan 2008 21:32 in reply to "RE: Mobile"

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2005-08-12

I thought Eugenia's whole argument for the mobile version being served on increasingly advanced smartphones (eg, iPhone) was that it did in fact have all the features of the standard version, and that it was just redesigned for smaller screens.

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RE[3]: Mobile

by Adam S (Staff) on Fri 11th Jan 2008 21:59 in reply to "RE[2]: Mobile"

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2005-04-01

I don't know for certain. Here's what I can say, defintively and officially:

1. The mobile site is synced only with v3, and does not currently have any of the v4 exclusive features. That doesn't mean it won't ever, but it is not today.

2. The mobile site will be increasingly optimized for mobile devices, because that site is not really made for catering to desktop browsers.

3. We have no plans to remove features of the mobile site or cripple it in any way.

4. However, we will also err - on the mobile site, anyway - on the side of compatibility, so if a feature cannot be supported reliably, we'll cut it.

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I was going to ask the same thing.

by fretinator (4.24) on Fri 11th Jan 2008 20:33 UTC

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2005-07-06

Until today I could not use the v4 version unless I didn't log in - some script would run forever and lockup IE6. It didn't happen if I was not logged in. (I had reported this bug earlier but could not point out the script). Today we upgraded to IE7 at work, so I no longer have the problem. Woohoo! Unlike some, I greatly prefer the V4 version.

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RE: I was going to ask the same thing.

by Quake (2.64) on Sat 12th Jan 2008 05:54 in reply to "I was going to ask the same thing."

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2005-10-14

I think it's a matter of getting used to the new version.
As of now, V4 isn't bad at all, it's good.

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RE[2]: I was going to ask the same thing.

by pandronic (4.24) on Sat 12th Jan 2008 09:06 in reply to "RE: I was going to ask the same thing."

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2006-05-18

V4 is not bad, but for some reason it doesn't seem as readable as V3.

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