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stackmobile.com

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About

Stack Mobile is a mobile-friendly front-end to all of the sites in the Stack Exchange network. It has a number of handy features that make browsing the sites easy and hassle-free. Here are just a few of them:

  • Full access to all questions, answers, comments, tags, and users on all Stack Exchange sites including ones that are in private beta.
  • Full question, user, and tag search capability.
  • The ability to easily switch between Stack Mobile and the equivalent page on the main site.
  • View tags and tag wiki excerpts as well as questions with certain tags.
  • View user profiles including a user's top five questions / answers.

License

Stack Mobile is released under the GPLv3.

Platform

The site should be accessible to virtually any phone browser.
I have tested with the following:

  • Android 2.2
  • webOS 1.4.1
  • Opera Mini 6.5

It was reported by a few of people that the site works perfectly on iPhone/iPad/iPod and BlackBerry. However, it is always nice to hear from people that the site displays fine on their phone.

Contact

Email me at [email protected]

Code

The source code for Stack Mobile is available on GitHub:
https://github.com/nathan-osman/Stack-Mobile

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I have now put the API key into place. Feel free to browse the site now. – Nathan Osman♦ May 20 '10 at 19:20
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OMG... love it... seriously. Thanks so much! – Cristian May 20 '10 at 22:07
You need to HTMLEncode the Title on this page: m.stackoverflow.quickmediasolutions.com/question_list.php – Espo May 21 '10 at 8:32
Very cool, somewhat curious though - in chrome the application seems happy to shrink-width all the way down to single-word, but in the android browser, it seems to have a min-width of about 2 portrait screens. I wish I could tell you why this is. – NSherwin May 24 '10 at 8:39
How does one use this with ServerFault? – Mark Henderson May 24 '10 at 23:01
@Farseeker: You will be able to shortly... I'm working on it. – Nathan Osman♦ May 25 '10 at 2:41
Cool. I'll keep an eye on this question – Mark Henderson May 25 '10 at 4:25
@Farseeker: Your wish has been granted! As of a few minutes ago, you can now access ServerFault and SuperUser. – Nathan Osman♦ May 25 '10 at 4:46
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Nice. 1 suggestion - mobile apps should have short URL's. – Techboy May 27 '10 at 11:20
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+1 It works fine on iPhone OS as well. – Dave DeLong May 29 '10 at 23:54
@Dave: Thanks! It's always good to hear that the site works on phones that I don't have the resources to test. – Nathan Osman♦ May 30 '10 at 0:16
@Techboy +1 Was just about the same thing. :) – Nathan Taylor Jun 1 '10 at 17:07
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Well, the new site is up. Please try it out and let me know what you think! – Nathan Osman♦ Jun 19 '10 at 22:50
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this is beautiful, good work. – Chet Feb 2 '12 at 20:39
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The site is hacked.. please check and rectify. i saw a different website at 12:38 IST. Wrote and email to you as well. – Futur Mar 13 '12 at 7:13
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One margin is enough!

One margin is enough!

The defining characteristic of mobile screens is that they are small; every pixel counts! A design with two margins is wasteful (and also adds extra visual noise).

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So you're saying I should shrink them? – Nathan Osman♦ Jul 9 '10 at 15:24
I'm saying there should only be one margin between the edge of the screen and the content. (And yes, that one margin should be smaller than the sum of the existing two.) – John Siracusa Jul 9 '10 at 15:51
I shrunk the margins quite a bit now. – Nathan Osman♦ Jul 11 '10 at 22:27
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Would it be possible to replace the stackMobile logo with the current sites logo?

For example instead of putting stackMobile in the title bar:

replace that with the sites name:

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I'll consider this. I wouldn't be able to implement it for a couple of days anyway. Thanks for the feedback! – Nathan Osman♦ Jul 21 '10 at 5:15
I put the name of the site in the middle now. – Nathan Osman♦ Aug 10 '10 at 18:11
@George: I like the change. It's a good compromise. – Lucas McCoy Aug 16 '10 at 6:32
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I think it's interesting that a 3×3 grid is becoming a metaphor for "Home", but in cases like this where the home screen is not actually a 3×3 grid of buttons, I don't know if everyone will get it. You could just as easily put a "Home" button up there.

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Well... actually the 3x3 grid is supposed to be StackMobile's logo and eventually will be replaced by a back button. I'm thinking of pointing the "StackMobile" header at the top to the home page. – Nathan Osman♦ Jul 9 '10 at 20:39
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There is a problem with codes in posts.

Code lines are not breaking and some part might not be visible - see missing parts here: http://stackmobile.com/view_question.php?site=stackoverflow&id=316099

I'd suggest removing the css for post maxwidth and set width to paragraphs of text for reader's comfort, leaving out the code

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What do you mean by set width to paragraphs of text? – Nathan Osman♦ Aug 10 '10 at 15:30
Actually I think I know what you're talking about... the <code> section is getting clipped at the right side. This has been something I've tried to fix before, but it's a complex issue. It's not as simple as just removing the forced with of the block. – Nathan Osman♦ Aug 10 '10 at 18:15
I think it's purely a CSS thing. change width and overflow and if this isn't enough - use word-wrap – naugtur Dec 7 '10 at 7:52
This may be fixed with the new version now. – Nathan Osman♦ Jul 5 '11 at 5:38

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