When using ‘mobile view’ on a desktop the slide in hamburger menu is unclickable as it slides away when you move towards it. I often use this to test mobile features without having to use a mobile device. [image] 01.28.2019-20.57.35 World's leading screen capture + recorder from Snagit …

How is this a “bug”? How does this prevent normal use of Discourse, per the description of the bug category?

Maybe because it slides away before I can switch it back to desktop mode? Perpetual mobile view kinda sucks!

So press F12 and switch to a mobile view in the browser?

99% of my users don’t know this functionality. Currently the “Mobile View” is a trap a user cannot easily escape. Maybe the bug is rather that the “Mobile View” link is offered on a desktop browser?

I suspect simply resizing the browser window would also work.

I’m afraid it doesn’t, and even it if did, @some-user ’s point of a user changing this setting would leave them completely lost, yeah I can figure out how to get out of it, but I’m guessing only 1 or 2 of my users would be able to, I think if someone clicked this setting they would view that as a maj…

This makes it really hard to use mobile view on any device with a mouse, which is pretty annoying when developing. I moved this topic from Contribute > Bug to Development , since it doesn’t affect most people’s “normal use”. I’m sure it didn’t used to be an issue. @featheredtoast any ideas? Maybe re…

What in the name of holy hell are y’all talking about here? :enraged_face: :face_with_symbols_on_mouth: WHY is this topic still present? [image] some-user: Currently the “Mobile View” is a trap a user cannot easily escape. Maybe the bug is rather that the “Mobile View” link is offered on a desk…

This affects developers (hence Development ). It certainly affected me just now. Sure, you can ‘get around’ the issue by using chrome’s mobile simulator. But when testing mobile things I find it much easier to use ?mobile_view=1. Try that, without the mobile simulator, and you’ll see how annoying th…

[image] david: Sure, you can ‘get around’ the issue by using chrome’s mobile simulator. But when testing mobile things I find it much easier to use ?mobile_view=1 . Try that, without the mobile simulator, and you’ll see how annoying the issue is. Doing so makes zero sense! This is the diction…

Slide in hamburger menu in 'mobile view' only on touchscreen + mouse desktops

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some-user January 30, 2019, 2:28pm 12

I’m as well, and the link is present in (my) hamburger menu:

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Slide in hamburger menu in 'mobile view' only on touchscreen + mouse desktops

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