Brilliant idea - Forum App

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Blizzard should make an forum app for us so that we can check the forum anytime and anywhere on our phone.
And also it can give us instant notification when someone replies to us.
Blizzard is a rich company they can make an app for us in no time.
Do we need it? What do you think?

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It’s called a mobile web browser.

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I’m not sure but there used to be a fan made app. But as Someoneelse said, you can just use the phone browser.

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It is outdated. We need something new.

I do use it but I dont like it. It is hard to follow a thread I have commented on.
I have to scroll down to find it and it takes time. Want to find a thread from 2 weeks ago in General?
Yeah good luck on that. On the app they can make a list ‘All threads you commented on’ and you can go there and check the thread for new replies.

And also they can make a search function on the app. Just search the name of the thread and it will show up.
We dont have that yet here.

Blizzard can also make it so we can delete someones post if we dont like it.

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How is it outdated? It works better than the PC one.

Pretty much all my posts are done on my phone

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if only we could do that now…

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There is an app for discourse if you really want one. Just look for it on the App Store or Google Play.

You will never get moderator powers for obvious reasons.

I prefer to use a browser on my mobile.

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Blizzard could not able to make good web forums, they finally outsourced it to the third party.

At this point I think that the only thing Blizzard was ever good is creating PC games. Everything surrounding games is mediocre at best.

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The WoW forums are really hard to use properly on mobile devices. I’ve tried several times, it’s just clunky and buggy. Whatever they did with styling also breaks content at times.

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I don’t really see the point, pretty much any device that can run apps has a mobile internet browser…

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To put it plainly : We don’t need an app for everything.

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I don’t have any issues on Chrome or Firefox on mobile with the forums. What are you using?

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Safari in this case, but it wasn’t any better with firefox on Android. The mobile version is just an afterthought.

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How odd, I have no idea what the issue is then. I find there is no difference between the two. One is just smaller and my suggestive text gives me a headache at times with what it thinks I am trying to write :rofl:

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This is what it looks like on my phone

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There are no particular issues like “this doesn’t work” or “this is broken”, it just doesn’t work very well. It’s like back in the days when the web wasn’t designed for phones at all. There’s just annoying issues, like scrolling just doesn’t feel right, there’s odd spacing/placement etc. Navigation through a longer post is just annoying as well.

Edit: yeah that’s what I mean, it’s barely usable.

Picture 1:
I can see exactly 2 forum sections, there’s so much wasted space, the buttons take up more space than the actual content.

Picture 2:
the blue buttons waste so much space, the nav thing is wasting so much space, all the extra information next to your name is cramped in there, about to burst out of its seams

Picture 3:
I can’t even read your name because “Replying…” is getting more space. I’m assuming it’s because you’re replying to yourself but that’s really hard to grasp from what’s shown there.

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I guess we have different ideas about what is or isn’t an issue. Ofc I can see far more on my PC on the massive screen.

You see this as unusuable and I see it as a fully functioning site without issues.

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Never understood why everything needs to be an ap.

Twitter, YouTube, Reddit…I don’t have the apps installed, I access it though my browser.

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This forum is based on Discourse, afaik. Discourse has an official app where you can add different “communities”.

Just add the WoW-forum url as community, and done?

https://eu.forums.blizzard.com/en/wow

No idea what the advantage of it is, but eh.

Anyways, a Blizzard-specific app for the Forum? I don’t see the point. Web-apps work fine 99% of the time, especially for such basic thing as this.

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I look at it based on being a webdeveloper as it has been my profession for the past 13 years.