Let me start this off by saying I. Love. The mobile site. It's clean, looks just like the site, polished and uncluttered. Gorgeous, and for once, I'm happy to use a mobile website.
I have noticed, however, that there seems to be no option to follow a tag. I will click on a tag, it brings up the page... But the "follow [tag]" appears to be missing.
Hopefully I'm not just missing something, but as someone who uses their phone for browsing 90% of the time, this would be a key feature.
Okay okay we're fixing this tomorrow. I promise. It's an easy fix but is going to be a bit harder to make it a better user experience. Basically, we have hid the right section of the secondary top navigation bar via css on mobile devices to reduce the clutter. I'm working on figuring out design right now. It gets so cluttered on mobile and I failed to realize that on some pages there is super important information in the right secondary nav area.
I've only used the site on mobile so I thought it was poor form that I could only follow a tag from within an individual post that carried the tag. I searched for some interests of mine to get a start on following topics I enjoy since I don't yet know which individuals are good to follow, but the search results didn't include a follow link. It is a bit of a hassle to have to open up an individual post from each topic I want to subscribe to when I'm trying to add five or six things in a flurry of brainstorming. Anyhow, it's good to know the desktop has the option to follow topics straight from the results page. It's encouraging to learn that this might just be an oversight in the mobile version instead of a deliberate design choice. I know we're supposed to follow people here more than tags so I was afraid it was an intentional handicap in an attempt to push people more towards following each other. I don't mind following people, but I need a way to find the ones who share common interests.
We shall fix it! insomniasexx has promised a fix tomorrow. Damn. You work fast insom.
Thanks for the reply and thanks to insomniasexx for working on such a quick fix. I see you guys all over the place and find it encouraging that you're all so active and responsive on here. Overall I love the look and feel of this place, keep up the good work!
Just noticed the change when I went to follow a tag, insomniasexx. It looks great and still looks clean and organized. This will make things a little easier, thank you!