Got a new phone, its stylizing posts on the website as though I'm on my PC :(

[Cambrian]

Hey, sorry if this is the wrong place for this, and also might not be anything anyone can do to help me on this end with this issue, but figured I'd at least ask to see if there's something obvious I'm missing.

Basically, I got a new phone today. It's about a quarter to half an inch longer than my old phone was.

As a result, when I try to read QQ (or SB for that matter) on its side, I wind up with a lot of deadspace. Here are pictures of what QQ looked like on each phone:

Spoiler: QQ's appearance on old phone

Spoiler: QQ's appearance on new phone

As you can see, on the old phone all of a post's text was stretched across the entire width of the screen, making use of all available space with the username as an unobtrusive bar at the top.

On the new phone, the username bar is on the side and continues ALL the way down every post, basically cutting the space for a given post's text by 2+ inches. This is how it is on PC too, which is fine because I have 27 inch screens. But on a smartphone screen, it's a pretty irritating loss of screen space.

Just wondering if there's an easy fix to this that I'm missing, or if it's just something I have to learn to deal with on QQ and SB as the cost of getting a slightly longer phone lmao.

 

[Louker]

I would check the browser settings and make sure desktop site is deactivated otherwise idk

 

[Cambrian]

I would check the browser settings and make sure desktop site is deactivated otherwise idk

Click to shrink...

Alas, I checked and I did indeed already have desktop site deactivated. Turning it on and then off again changed nothing v.v

 

[Belenus]

Xenforo detects the available width of the screen and uses that to determine whether the sidebar is displayed or not. Easiest way to change it would be a userscript like Greasemonkey.

 

[Count Nebula]

Try changing the skin, maybe?

Mobile browsers aren't all that customizable; big tech hates giving users any control if they can help it.

Your best bet would be to switch to Firefox as it allows addons on mobile and install Tampermonkey to create a user script. However, sandboxing on Firefox mobile is currently non-existent, and the ui sucks.

The next best option would be to try another Chromium browser and hope it works.

This is assuming you're on Android, lol. Should have probably started with that.

 

[UserIDHere]

If your still having issues this worked for me: Enlarge the text so the screen width says it's to much and stops showing the side bar makes it look like the old one.

 

[UserNameRandom?]

Next to your pfp crap there is a T icon with a measurement (line with and up and down arrow on the ends) on it. Switching around the units may enact your specified changes.

 

[Arde645]

It's possible that you're in the unfortunate middle ground between portrait and landscape that mobile pages sometimes struggle with.

You get the default mobile style you had when the screen is around ~650px wide, your current style between ~700-900px, and the desktop version around ~950px. If you are on an Android device that allows changing the screen resolution (older Samsungs for example) you can try using the "battery-saver" screen mode they offer which reduces the screen resolution as a possible solution.

Do note that phones that offer that screen mode usually also cap the framerate to 45-60fps depending on the phone's max default framerate so if that's a deal-breaker then you're going to either have to live with it or do some coding.