Some changes from a recent upgrade are making it harder to use D&D on my Android Moto cellphone. Some problems may be due to my use of a larger font.
Creating a new topic - see screenshots for the difficulties working around the heading and inf boxes to create this new topic. (And can’t always click off the “similar topic” box b/c can’t reach the x in upper corner)
Format on opening D&D - my icon on the far right is no longer visible. I know to scroll right to find it but a new user wouldn’t know that.
Preview function stopped working. See screenshots of hide preview & show preview (they’re nearly identical). Normally I use this function a lot to double-check my posts.
I’ve just checked this on my mobile and I cannot reproduce any of your issues.
How did you set larger font, via browser settings, Android settings or Discourse settings—Text Size? I tried Larger and Largest and both work fine. Do the issues persist if you return the font size to normal?
You might also try:
hard refreshing the page (open forum in browser, paste javascript:location.reload(true) to address bar, press enter)
clearing app cache for your browser and reopening the page
Hi @musiko, thank you so much for exploring this problem with me. It’s solved now but has created a new mystery. Here’s my process:
I didn’t bother with the cache since I remove caches frequently, to make more room on my phone (too many photos taking up all the memory).
Just now I restarted the phone, without affecting the problem.
Next I reduced the size of font on my cellphone, without affecting the problem.
Then I also reduced the size of font on D&D - and with both fonts reduced, success! All the problems vanished.
Thanks for your suggestions! Even though I suspected fonts, I didn’t remember having adjusted them on D&D (and had a dickens of a time finding that option - it’s under Interface within Account not under Preferences 🤦). I also was unclear where to find the setting on my phone. It was only with your encouragement that I went digging and found the solution.
But here’s the mystery now. I went back and enlarged the fonts both on my phone and on D&D, yet the problems did not recur. So it’s a bug rather than a feature?
