The Mobile Site
henning
November 20, 2009, 05:30 AM posted in General DiscussionI use the mobile site a lot. But it still has two major deficiencies. If they were addressed, the usability would profit significantly for me .
1. Lessons are not accessable
...because you are only allowed to see the lessons that are "bookmarked" - a restriction that I can't quite understand.
Aggravated by the fact that lessons are regularly not automatically bookmarked despite the level being subsribed. This is bothering for new lessons because in that case you can only hope to find a recent comment on the lesson to bookmark it. That point is important for me as I listen to the new lesson on my way to work (streaming).
2. Frequent Re-Login
Unlike the regular site you have to log in every several minutes (or meters?) on the mobile site - and that in a mobile environment and with a rather slow server. Even if I simply want to read the comments I have to wait forever for the login page and than re-navigate through that incomplete lesson page.
I sometimes got the suscpiscion that a relogin occurs whenever I switch cells (quite often when in the train or subway). As my appartment here in Stuttgart (where I have no fixed line internet) lies right on the border of two cells even switching the room leads to a re-login.
I am absolutely content with a simple no-frills mobile site - but those points would make the user experience much, much smoother.
谢谢
henning
November 27, 2009, 08:06 AMasegal:
m.chinesepod.com
The mobile site of CPod (AKA iPhone site)
bababardwan
November 26, 2009, 07:16 AMah,henning,I meant to comment on this days ago then forgot.
Point 1:
because you are only allowed to see the lessons that are "bookmarked" - a restriction that I can't quite understand.
..I presumed this was part of the trimming down of the site to make it easier/faster to load,etc,but I don't know for sure.
Aggravated by the fact that lessons are regularly not automatically bookmarked despite the level being subsribed
..Initially I was only getting this on the mobile site and I'd have to then transfer across to the regular site and bookmark it and then come back.However it has happened a couple of times lately on the regular site for stuff I'm subscribed to for some strange reason.More fiddly on the mobile site though.
Point 2:
you have to log in every several minutes (or meters?) on the mobile site - and that in a mobile environment and with a rather slow server
..I found this very interesting because I've had exactly the same problem,but for some reason I tend to assume I must be doing something wrong.The other day I must have tried for about 40minutes to post a comment from the mobile site and every time I tapped in the edit box it presumed I wanted to copy something [even though I hadn't posted anything yet] and then I would end up losing the connection.The copy thing I still presume I must have been doing something wrong ,but for the other log in thing I also thought it might have to do with the stability of a 3G connection.Dunno.I hope its not a meibanfa situation.