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[Fist of Etiquette]

I think about things on my brain, not on my mobile device. Not yet, anyway.

[A Mathematician]

Fix the damn crash points. Give me a way to refresh the blog. Bring back the brickbats.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

Threaded comments is impossible on my phone

[Archduke Pantsfan]

also, we should win things just by reading.

[Virginian]

Random drawing? Pshhh...it should go to the best written suggestions.

[Scarecrow Repair]

And you'd win with that suggestion?

[C. Anacreon]

When in the mobile edition, it is a pre-set font size that is difficult to read and can't be enlarged on my Android. Thus, I have to switch to the desktop version to see well enough, and being in that requires a lot of scrolling to read pages on my small phone screen. It looks like you finally have changed the mobile setting to permit seeing the comments and posting therein, but the experience could be much easier and is fraught with screen freezes and site crashes.

Other websites' mobile versions will often give you a full screen dedicated to your posting when you click on 'reply' or 'leave a comment'. That might be something to consider. I'm sure you realize that much of the attraction is reason.com is not just in the articles themselves, but also the great repartee in the comments sections.

[Archduke Pantsfan]

There are articles?

[Paul.]

I only read Reason for the pictures.

[robc]

Also, this.

[Cowboy]

I have the same issue with the mobile site. The text is freakin tiny and there's no zoom.

I didn't know they added commenting on the app now, I guess I'll have to give it another shot.

[Corneliusm]

I always reload using the desktop version. There's no advantage to loading the mobile site on either my phone (Galaxy S3) or my tablet (Nexus 10).

Oh, and I would love if Reason allowed print subscribers to download the digital edition on Google Play. Some magazines let me do this.

[Brett L]

You're talking about the mobile web edition, right? Not the reason app?

[Archduke Pantsfan]

You have to go to the website from the app to get to the comments.
My phone goes straight to desktop version.

[Brett L]

Try adding ?nomobile=1 directly to your bookmarked url.

so http://reason.com/blog?nomobile=1

That's what I do to get comments on the iPhone. and then skip the app.

[db]

I do that but about 5% of the time reason ignores this request for unfathomable, er, reasons.

[Brett L]

I got all pissy about it at one point, because I was constantly getting the mobile site. Then I realized I had mistyped the nomobile as nomoblie. Apparently, reason.com isn't set up to take the request parameter nomoblie. Fucking squirrels.

[CE]

So there still aren't any comments, which are the best part of Reason.com.

[BBB]

What he said. Remember, people, some day YOU might be wearing progressive lenses, too. D*mn 8pt type is too small, and 0pt between lines is too crowded.

Now get off my lawn.

[CE]

I think Google plans to sell them next year.

[CE]

They will augment reality with explanations of how progressives understand it.

[BakedPenguin]

Note - if you like to click on ads for political causes and people you hate (to cost them money), mobile devices cost more. iPhones are crazy expensive, often costing from a dollar to as much as ten dollars for a single click.

Do not do this more than twice a day on a single ad, however, as they audit for click fraud.

[robc]

Simple: comment sections.

[Brett L]

This. We don't really read Reason. We're here to piss in the soup so the flavor is better.

[db]

I read it for the alt-text. Which is UNREADABLE on android browsers 🙁

[darius404]

It's readable if the picture doesn't load (at least on the iOS app). In which case you can see the alt-text, but no picture.

[EDG reppin' LBC]

Refresh button on the mobile site would be swell.

[SugarFree]

$100? US? Y no bitcoin?

[Brett L]

Because its only about 7 bitcoins. Sounds too cheap.

[Paul.]

Seattle automatically gives me a $100 Amazon gift card when I turn in my assault rifle non-working .22 Marlin with rust on the barrel.

What have you done for me lately, Reason?

[db]

How much does it cost to 3D print an AR lower? I sense Profit!

[Brett L]

ABS costs about $18/lb in 1lb lots, falling off to about $10/lb in bulk. Divide out the cost of your printer over the number of people in the commentariat who want one... I'll bet we could make them for $20. The problem is that if we print more than a certain number, they need serial numbers and then BATFE gets interested.

[CE]

My printer's serial number thingy is broken, so i skip that step.

[Paul.]

I wonder if the Seattle buyback would accept a lower as a "gun". Hmm...

. The problem is that if we print more than a certain number, they need serial numbers and then BATFE gets interested.

Seattle said it would buy any gun back, No Questions Asked(tm). Which made gun controllers very annoyed.

However, their last buyback turned into an impromptu gun show, which pissed off gun controllers even more:

http://www.shtfplan.com/headli.....w_01292013

[db]

I'd be interested in seeing how burglary rates may have changed during that buyback thingy.

[Brett L]

Working getting the CAD file up and running so I can see how many lowers per lb and get a lot of 100 price for you. (Note: I'm not printing 100 of these things and getting myself in trouble with the BATFE. This is just for shits and giggles for those of us without lawyers on retainer.)

[Brett L]

Based on price, I could definitely do 100 for less than $1000. It wouldn't pay off the cost of the printer, but for just materials, electricity and someone to watch the printer, I could come out +/- $100 depending on how well the printer behaved.

[db]

It only costs like $97 to get an FFL for three years. Add in some business taxes and you could be printing them up en masse and selling them back to Seattle.

[Rasilio]

As others have said, full interaction with the comments through the app itself rather than having to go to the Mobile site and the ability to zoom in and zoom out would be the most valuable new features, right now your site is effectively unusable on an Android phone because of these 2 flaws.

[Spoonman.]

Illustrations on the Kindle edition are often misplaced or split strangely.

[ant1sthenes]

Comments through the app is the biggest missing feature. Though it would be nice if it didn't crash when I lost an internet connection.

[GILMORE]

FWIW I read Reason on my phone all the time... and I find simply having a H&R RSS feed plugged into Google Reader far simpler to use and more flexible than the Reason Phone App. Posts load faster, they are adjustable text, and i can quickly zip to the actual web-version clicking the title, where I can read and add comments.

I've had the app on my phone for a while, but i just don't use it. Dont see the need really.

I WIN!!

(I am banned from ever winning anything here since irritating nick by asking, 'WTF is Reason 24/7 *for*, anyway?)

[darius404]

I am banned from ever winning anything here since irritating nick by asking, 'WTF is Reason 24/7 *for*, anyway?

Seriously?