YWS Mobile

Now announcing the Young Writers Society on your mobile device! If you got a browser on your cell phone or pda or psp or ds, then you can easily access the Young Writers Society by pointing your browser to:

http://www.youngwriterssociety.com

Just finished testing it using a blackberry, and it works great. There are no graphics and everything is just the bare bones, meaning that the biggest page (aside from topics) is only 2.5 k.

However, there are some caveats:

1. It won't work on my Samsung phone, but then again, my samsung phone is going on seven years. Not sure why it won't work, but I'm trying to fix it.

2. If it won't work for you, let me know. In order to make it work, I have to put in individual phone manufacturers. Right now, I think it's good for 90% of people, but if it won't work for you, list your phone manufacturer here along with whatever error message you get.

3. The private messages thing does not work yet. I'm working on that, and I should have it done soon. The number one reason I wanted to do this was so I could reply to my PMs from anywhere, so it's definitely coming.


Refinements that are coming soon:

- Right now, if you log in on your phone, the database will mark that as your last visit. So once you log in from your computer, only the posts made since you visited on your phone will be in the "Since your last visit" link. Shouldn't be too hard to fix that though.

- One link for the "hottest" forums (i.e., the ten most popular).

- Improved navigation



So far, it's already working great on my blackberry, but if your phone was made more than three years ago, you may experience some issues.

Works 100% fine here.

Ok that's great and all, and got onto mobile from my PC (somehow) but is there a way to get it back to normal?

I have the same problem as Staring_at_Ceiling, I think. Right now I'm on my laptop, but I seem to be on the mobile version of the site? And there's no way for me to get to my user settings/"My YWS", so I'm not sure how to change it back, or how it happened in the first place.

I don't mean to be a nag (really!), but this is really frustrating me. I'm on a regular computer, but somehow my settings have gotten changed or something, and whenever I log on I'm brought to the mobile version of the site. Is there a way to fix this? It's been this way for days, and I can't find any way to get to my settings from the mobile version and somehow change it back.

It seems that the MyYWS section didn't make it over.

Type this into your browser: profile.php?mode=preferences

It should redirect you to it.

You can change it from there.

Hopefully fixed the problem. If it's not fixed, use the link that Grif gave you.

All I did though was add a link "Not On A Mobile Device" to the front page. That'll take you to the My YWS screen, and from there you can go to preferences and change the template.

I tried it, for kicks (I'm not exactly sure if I have free internet on my phone, probably not) and got a "file too large" error.

I have a Samsung SGH-D407.

I really wish I had some portable internet device....like a crackberry. But I don't. oh well.

It'll vary from mobile device to mobile device. On most cell phones, it probably won't work.

Well thats a bummer. Oh well. It's not like I'm ever far from the house anyway

Thanks so much! It's so nice to have everything back to normal on YWS. *hugs site*

Wow, that's cool I like the fact that you could PM from your phone in the future

But hey guess what?

I'm a phoneless person XD But still, I'm proud of YWS

Cheerios, Chandni