No support for Droid or Safari

[Tanthilan]

Is there some workaround for the fact that I can't get logged into these forums on my mobile devices? My kindle keeps telling me it can't find the site, or the site has unsupported elements. My IPhone just shuts down Safari. Can we please make a mobile friendly version!?

[Sapience]

Is there some workaround for the fact that I can't get logged into these forums on my mobile devices? My kindle keeps telling me it can't find the site, or the site has unsupported elements. My IPhone just shuts down Safari. Can we please make a mobile friendly version!?

I can't speak to the Kindle issue, but I use the site on my iPhone all the time. Which version are you on?

[Sigram]

Try going to LOTRO.COM home page first and logging in there, then click through to the forums.

[Thermight]

Well my Android can not view the new forums. With full new url http://www.lotro.com/forums/ it shows no CSS and text at the top complaining that cookies are not enabled. They are enabled. So is third party support for cookies.

So instead user sees a bulletted menu list with no images nor formatting.

[mqb]

Well my Android can not view the new forums.

What browser are you using on your Android phone or tablet? I hear people had luck using Opera instead of Chrome or the default browser.

Try loading the mobile theme directly by appending ?styleid=7 to the URL, like below.

https://www.lotro.com/forums/?styleid=7

[Tanthilan]

I can't speak to the Kindle issue, but I use the site on my iPhone all the time. Which version are you on?

Not sure how to find what safari, but I have a IPhone 4s with iOS 6.1.3. Kindle is a Fire with whatever droid software they use. Its the main one I cant even log in with, Safari just shuts down, but kindle wont even allow me to look at forum page.
Thanks for replying Sapience. I use Mobile devices to check at school and what not, so wanna make sure it works before semester starts.

[Sigram]

Well my Android can not view the new forums. With full new url http://www.lotro.com/forums/ it shows no CSS and text at the top complaining that cookies are not enabled. They are enabled. So is third party support for cookies.

So instead user sees a bulletted menu list with no images nor formatting.

Going to the main LOTRO.COM page and clicking through to the forums is a work around for this issue too, I've discovered.

[GrimbleGrumble]

I too have the same issue on my Kindle Fire. It uses a browser called Silk I believe. The old forums worked fine but the new ones do not. I can get to front page of the website, but I get the "page cannot be displayed" when I try to access the forums.

[Khafar]

I'm not seeing styling on pages on my Android phone's default browser either (the forums are a deeply nested bullet list). Of course, it's now "old" at ~3 years, which may have something to do with it .

While it would be nice on occasion, I'm never going to do any serious forum browsing from my phone. Since I read pretty fast, I can't do any serious reading on a display that tiny without constant scrolling, and typing on any phone sucks.

Khafar

[GozmitJosh]

my droid works with the forums just fine

i use dolphin browser mini as my browser.

[ladylore]

I also am seeing the forums just fine on my Android based browser, whether logged in or out.

I use a Samsung GalaxySIII. Android version is 4.1.1 (Jellybean). It turns out I also do QA as my "day job" and recently have come to learn that some things that do run just fine on Jellybean OS do not seem to always behave as expected on Ice Cream Sandwich, which is the OS predecessor. Gingerbread, which preceded that, can be even more problematic.

It seems there is still a lot of variance in the Android landscape that could be accounting for the wide variances in response. Just some thoughts.