How do you arrive at the website after picking up your phone? Don’t you open a web browser and type in the URL?
See this thread Installing TPF as a Progressive Web App
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I was going to quote you here to agree and then go on to describe the problem which has now prevented me from quoting you, until for the second time in an hour I clear my keyboard cache. 
My phone was the cheapest smartphone at Argos, so there’s that.
Desktop user here. I like a lot about the new site. The UI is rich and comfortable. There’s a lot of helpful navigation. I find the infinite scroll feature to be preferable for topic lists (such as the forum main page). Inside the topic, infinite scroll has its downsides, as others noted. But to compensate, there are helpful search features: you can search for keywords, and better yet, you can quickly find all topic posts by a given participant. I like the composition features on the desktop, both the GUI and the markdown. Drafts are reliably saved and are accessible to you both in-thread and from user preferences.
Things that I like less. The response threads under posts don’t quite work as intended, because they don’t show posts where someone quoted from a post but didn’t click the reply button.
The ignore feature, sorely missing on the old forum, I found to be pretty much unusable here, so I ended up cobbling together a browser extension, like I did before.
I also get a feeling that the platform designers may have more tech skill than good sense. There is such a thing as too many bells and whistles; just because you can do something doesn’t mean you should. For example, I don’t care for how they collect every user activity they can think of and display it to everyone. It’s not that I have something shameful to hide, but I am a private person and I resent such pervasive monitoring and exposure.
Another thing is the edit history. I want to be the one in control of what I post. If I go back to correct or alter something, I don’t always want that to be shown. I can understand the reasons for disclosing edits, but let me be responsible for calling out my edits if and where I see fit. And if some people behave inconsiderably or dishonestly, well, let the community handle it. Not everything needs to be engineered.
I’ve always assumed as a universal moral law that you may edit without limit until the first reply, and after then never without disclosing?
I haven’t tried using it myself, so I’d be interested to know what’s wrong with it.
Well, for one thing, ignoring/unignoring is cumbersome: to ignore you have to open your user profile, go to preferences, navigate to users tab, click on a button, type in the username, then scroll down a drop-down menu to select the only sensible option there, then commit.
There is a subtle indication of ignored replies in a topic, and you can expand to see them if you want, but you won’t know whose posts they are until you expand. OPs can’t be seen at all except by removing the user from the ignore list. In the topic list it’s kind of the opposite: topics started by ignored users are shown and are not distinguished in any way.
Finally, putting someone on ignore necessarily cuts off all communication from them: you don’t get their mentions, and they can’t PM you (which is something you may or may not want, but you don’t get a choice).
BTW, I thought the design of ignoring/unignoring was weird, especially that drop-down menu that I mentioned: there you have to select the ignore duration, from a few hours to forever. Why would I want to ignore someone for just a few hours, or even a few weeks, and then have the system reverse my decision? But then I realized that they probably just lazily reused the design for admin suspension.
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Just don’t read posts by someone you don’t want to read.
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I don’t know how to follow other people or have access to their posts or threads. Other than that, the new forum offers more functionality than the previous one. Thanks to the admins and moderators.
I wouldn’t remember if that’s what I did months ago when it migrated, but it kind of appears that I might have done that? Just from the icon on my home screen, and the fact that it doesn’t group with the open windows of any browser.
Go to the Users link on the left side of the main page and there are options galore.
I am getting used to the side by side drafting interface of input and published result. It is annoying but informative at the same time.
Which you can turn off and on as you like, toggle at top left.
I see it now.
Thanks.
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You can also just click on their name, which takes you to their user page. You can ignore from that page. (This only works if they don’t hide their profile.)
I agree with what you are saying, but to be honest, the ignore extension you made is the best I have ever seen. I have never been on a forum which gives the user all of those options regarding the ignore feature.
When I click on users, I only see a list of their activities, post counts, etc.
@Jamal - When I view a post and hover my mouse over the “like” option, 12 different possibilities pop up. I am wondering if it would be possible to substitute in an option for something like “informative”? I know of an instance of XenForo where there are options like “informative”, “useful”, etc. I find the “informative” reaction useful because it gives me a simple way to acknowledge my appreciation for the information provided without further comment. Not sure if this is possible. Thank you.