What is on Your Mind?

OK.. I updated this WOL "count users and guests by device" plugin and added the results (back) to both (desktop and mobile) WOL pages.

I was surprised to learn that, at least today (on the weekend) that after subtracting known or flagged bots from the total number of guests on line, the number of mobile users identified is just less than 20% of the total number of non-robot users.

This was a big surprise for me, and I'll check often and during the weekday to see how this number holds up during busy times. I will also check the code to see if there is some counting error! Basically, to get the number of mobile users I quickly added up the number of iPhone, Android and iPad guest users from the UA string, so it seems it might be accurate.

OK... after a lot of digging around, I found that many bots identify themselves as mobile devices, so after I filtered out the bots which identified themselves as mobile devices from the total mobile users on line, the ratio of the numbers of mobile users to total users (mobile + desktop) is back to under 15 percent (just now was %13), which is what I expected.

Will check this during more busy times next week.

Here is the "correct" Guest Summary - Mobile Prototype

The numbers match up and seem to check out (no mobile); but I'm having some error where the OS details (Linux, MacOS, Windows, iPhone, Android) on the same page on the Desktop site are not adding up correct. Well, I'll fix it sooner or later.

It's OK on mobile because there is only a summary and the totals add up correctly on mobile. In the summary below I show the percentage of mobile users when compared to mobile + desktop users (no bots in this formula). It's currently (screenshot below) at the expected 10% and I'll keep an eye on this over time to see if this increases or not:

I tried searching for "clock" this morning and noticed that when a thread is selected from the resulting list, the cursor is positioned at the end of the thread rather than the beginning. This behaviour appears to be different than the desktop version that puts the cursor at the first post of the thread.

Thanks jgt !

Will put this on the "next update TODO list".

Thanks for using and commenting on how to improve the mobile version!

OK... there is a BUG in the mobile search form code which I cannot yet solve. When i click on a form input field the cursor appears at the bottom (blue) outside of the text box. Will open a bug report in our bug tracking system. Here is the bug report.

Can you provide your device and browser details?

We can reproduce this error on some devices with specific browsers and on others or with different browsers, the cursor works fine.

It's a tough bug to fix.