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We have 250 people using our Social trade-free platform https://social.trom.tf . We, who are the most active at TROM, are all there. It is an amazing platform and allows you to follow and interact with millions of humans. No ads, no tracking, no bullshit. Read more about it here https://trom.tf/social/

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in reply to Janek F

Yeah no mobile optimization....I hate mobile phones - they are all owned by google or apple. So unless there are some proper linux phones out there, trade-free, I won't spend too much time adapting our websites for mobile :D . Sorry.
in reply to TROM

well, there are some great developments in that area - #Librem, #Pinephone and co - which I am monitoring with great interest as I too want to get rid of my #Android-phone.
Also, screen sizes can vary among existing devices - for a proper movement you should be considerate of that :)
in reply to Janek F

Our websites should work great with non-mobile devices. I do test our websites for multiple resolutions. If I could snap my fingers and optimize them for mobile I would. But takes a lot of time and I (Tio) personally do not use a phone more than checking the weather and calling a few friends. So I am not willing to spend time on this, and test our websites for such resolutions.

But if any of the Linux phones out there would become usable, then I will spend some time fixing our websites for such small and narrow screens. I have that on my list for quite some time. But imagine that we have around 40 websites....and they have many pages each....to fix them all for such small and narrow screens is very time consuming....

In any case most of our websites are ok on small screens too...the above example is a part of a page that is messy.

I fixed the above issue for mobile....but I can't check every website and every page....
in reply to TROM

do you build them manually? I am pretty sure there are Free responsive design builders out there that would make accounting for such issues much easier.
in reply to Janek F

I use many "builders". Some are wordpress plugins, some simple scripts, etc.. Many websites built in many ways. Some are built for a while now and have custom CSS that is time consuming to adapt for small screens. Such websites been around for years.
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in reply to TROM

If this happens frequently with the https://social.trom.tf, then why not disable the custom design on mobile screens like we did with other services ?
@janek
in reply to Rokosun

I do not know how exactly. Since it is a theme we are using...and that's a custom theme....
in reply to Janek F

@linmob how did you stumble upon my post? Do you have a federated Abonnement for related hashtags or something?
Anyways, checked out your site, good work! Hope I find something that fits me as an #Arch user sometime soon to finally escape #Android for good :)