Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-15636815-20151020174348/@comment-15636815-20151031224123

Mhommer wrote: I think we need to be careful on how much we dive into modifying the existing site for the sake of a mobile site. I think you misunderstood my intent. I do not think we should redesign the category structure to improve the mobile experience. We should redesign the category structure because it completely sucks, and doing so will make things better for all users. It just so happens that the redesign will have more dramatic visual and functional effects for mobile users than for desktop users.

what content is really the most applicable for someone viewing the site on a mobile device. I don't think it should be the enitre site but a subset of the high traffic sections. Perhaps. On the other hand, we may be able to make some relatively minor changes that will allow mobile users to see essentially what the desktop users see. Or maybe not. We won't know for sure until we're further along in the project.

Not having played with the mobile, is it exclusively category driven or can it be link driven and build out similar to the full site. No exclusively, but primarilyso much so that the current category structure makes finding anything on mobile very time-consuming, and impossible in some cases. Category pages, like Game Updates, Special Offer, and Contracts, will not display at all in certain mobile implementations.

Wikia has released separate apps for the most popular games on Wikia. For the rest, like ours, they built an app called "Game Guides". Users can use Game Guides to access any Wikia site in the Games category, and it gives a clean, consistent appearance. Rather than attempting to make our content available and visible for all mobile users, we could just make sure the content works with Game Guides. That would greatly reduce our workload and the difficulty of our coding, and greatly increase our mobile presence, all at once.

In addition to the tips on game play I think it would also be cool to come up with some relavent Top 10 lists.

Maybe even breaking up the contract lists into sections of 10-15 tasks at a time (or maybe 5-10 if that makes more sense from a mobile view). Both of these ideas fit well with what Wikia recommends for wikis in general, desktop view included.

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122.148.219.120 wrote: Regarding Mhommers's suggestion of only having "high traffic sections of the Wiki" added to the mobile version, personally I think that would be idea not only for the mobile site but also content from there should be added as a sub-category to the PC version.

Example: Recently added/ New content to the game ( Achivements, Contractors, Buildings, Rolling Stock etc) usually attracts the most traffic (what is it? what does it cost? what does it look like? what do I have to send for that contract etc). Agreed. The day Antoni was released, a few users commented to me that a search for "Antoni" from a mobile platform yielded no results, even six hours after his pages were created. Easy-to-find links to the most current content would eliminate that problem.