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Finding the Mute and Follow controls on mobile


 

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Frances,

On beta you wrote:
Where? ?See the screenshots. Mark has acknowledged that Groups.io doesn¡¯t have all the functionality on the iPhone that would wish for.


To find the Mute and Follow controls on mobile:
  1. Click the Groups.io logo to get to your group list.
  2. Click Topics from the buttons at the bottom.
  3. Find the topic of interest and click on it to open it.
  4. The buttons to Mute/Unmute and Follow/Unfollow are at the top.

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        of Groups.io home page Screenshot of Topic list from
        Groups.io home Screenshot of message from Groups.io
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Shal


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Thanks, with the help of Duane, I found it.
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I think we should put some of the idiosyncratic bits about using mobile devices in the Wiki. ?The Help does not address this. There is no sidebar (left menu) on my iPhone when I open my subscriptions.
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I would add:?
- You must get the full list of all topics for all of your groups. You can¡¯t choose a specific group from the Your Groups (previous) screen
- You must open the topic of interest from this full list of all posts from all your groups. This is different from on a computer where you get a left hand column (sidebar).
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(Please feel free to reword! Perhaps the first point isn¡¯t necessary?)
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Do you think it works the same for Androids? ?i just tested with an iPad and it works like a computer, no matter which orientation you hold the iPad.
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Frances


On Dec 30 18, at 7:33 PM, Shal Farley <shals2nd@...> wrote:

Frances,

On beta you wrote:
Where? ?See the screenshots. Mark has acknowledged that doesn¡¯t have all the functionality on the iPhone that would wish for.


To find the Mute and Follow controls on mobile:
  1. Click the logo to get to your group list.
  2. Click Topics from the buttons at the bottom.
  3. Find the topic of interest and click on it to open it.
  4. The buttons to Mute/Unmute and Follow/Unfollow are at the top.

[broken photo trimmed by moderator]

Shal

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Frances,

- You must get the full list of all topics for all of your groups. You
can¡¯t choose a specific group from the Your Groups (previous) screen
This is the same as on computer: the buttons for Follow and Mute only appear on topics when you open them from the combined lists on the Groups.io home page, not when you open them from the Messages section of a specific group. (Unless you use Toby's hack to make the topic display think it came from the all-groups listing).

Why it is that way I'm not sure, other than I suspect some group managers thought that the buttons would be too confusing for their members. I think I would have put the function in the More menu instead of a buttons at the top, but I think the all-groups pages were done before there was a More menu in the bar under each message.

- You must open the topic of interest from this full list of all posts
from all your groups.
I'm not sure if this is saying the same thing as before, or if you're making a distinction that I'm not getting.

This is different from on a computer where you get a left hand column
(sidebar).
On mobile (actually it is when the display is narrow, regardless of device type) the left bar moves down to the bottom. There's only room for a couple of buttons so a couple are displayed and the rest go into a "More" menu (three bars, the so-called "hamburger" icon).

Do you think it works the same for Androids?
The screenshots I posted were from Android. In particular the chrome-lite browser built into the Gmail app.

i just tested with an iPad and it works like a computer, no matter
which orientation you hold the iPad.
I believe it is all based on how wide Groups.io's code thinks the screen is. If you open the site on a computer and shrink the browser window it starts reformatting itself and eventually appears just like it does on a smartphone in vertical orientation.

So, I'd have to guess that the code judges your iPad's screen to be "wide enough" for the computer layout, regardless of orientation.

Shal


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