Since June 13th I've started using the responsive site exclusively when interacting with RPoL on my phone. Below are some notes I've kept regarding the user experience.
All experiences were had on a device running Android 7.0 (Nougat) and using Chrome 75.0.3770.101. Any "bugs" or other unexpected behaviors were verified on the same device in Firefox 67.0.3.
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The Main Menu drop down does not work as a user probably might expect, especially based on a touch screen friendly design. Based on the initial button interaction a user will likely expect that touching the blank space on the list to the right of the words will trigger the expected behavior, it does not. A user must press each individual word like an old fashioned hyperlink. This issue is further compounded by the other navigation drop downs which are fully responsive across the entire horizontal width of the drop down menus
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On the compose messages screen the "private to" checkboxes extend "off screen" when composing a message. A user can access then by scrolling the screen right if they realize that's an option
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The position and size of the remove game minus signs make them very difficult to interact with due to their small size and placement against the right side of the website margin. While this may be a specific decision to prevent accidental interaction, even when zooming in to intentionally use them the right side justification makes them very difficult to use since they remain on the right edge of a device's screen. Adding some space between them and the right border of the site, even just an amount equal to the width of the button itself, would help this issue.
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Game map functionality doesn't seem to be working correctly in all cases. I have two games which do not have a "main game map" but instead have a map assigned to a specific group. Attempting to view that map via the "select another map to view" menu does not work correctly.
In both cases it causes the site to send you to the "RPoL Announcements" forum, as indicated by the "Welcome to" text beneath the RPoL logo, and gives you an error.
quote:
This is not a game
"RPoL Announcements" is not a game.
Game information is (logically enough) only available for games.
I do not have any games that actually do have a "main game map" uploaded so I was unable to test whether that altered this particular issue or not.
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Nomenclature. On the old site the page you see when you're logged in and visit RPoL is called the "main menu" according to all the site's navigation links. On the responsive site the drop down navigation list is labeled main menu and now "home" is used for that same page. However there's still other navigation options, like the links at the bottom of pages, which are labeled "main" when they should probably be labeled "Home" to follow the naming structure of the responsive site.
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The dice roller doesn't work. Changing dice options, inputting manual rolls, all seem to be behaving normally. However no amount of touching or tapping the "Roll the Dice" button actually triggers the expected page behavior and generates a dice roll.