Great job jabronis - attached picture is what the site looks like on an old phone. All the buttons are broken and do nothing, except for the Modlog which somehow is still accessible. Tried different browsers on the phone, tried clearing all the cookies and cache, still doesn't work.
EDIT: This came off a bit hot and aggro - it just sucks since pre-migration the site worked fine on my dinosaur phone, so I'm pretty frustrated. Makes me appreciate communist web-design (like marxists.org and redsails.org) even more.
I'm really sorry this is happening to you but I want to urge you to understand the undertaking of managing this site that the admins are doing. Its an incredible amount of free labor that the devs are doing, both from upstream lemmy and the hexbear devs and admins.
Developing for 100% compatibility is basically an impossible task. The iphone 6 is nearly 10 years old and stopped receiving updates 4 major IOS versions ago. To a point, getting compatibility for most devices is more urgent than getting compatibility for an old device that most people have long let go of.
I love keeping old hardware around and I understand that phones are a significant expense and you can't just go buy a new one without serious effort, but this really is not the devs fault.
When you are able, I recommend getting an android device that has community support for custom roms. Finding a slightly older flagship with community support will get you the most longevity.
Once again, i'm sorry, this really sucks. But don't take this out on the devs. They're doing their best. Shitting on them will only discourage further development.
Seriously, the devs are great and the technology of the internet is a fucking nightmare. It's legacy code and deprecation all the way down. A few people making this thing run and look decent is hard enough with the most up to date version of everything.
And to top it off, this guy isn't even being fucked over by our devs decisions, it's that apple won't update their old shit.
Thanks I appreciate it, I wasn't meaning to shit on the devs, it just sucks and I was/am venting frustration.
I get it.
The fact that the web browser's capabilities and updates on iPhones are tied to major OS releases has always been and will always be incredibly stupid.
I agree, but also the browser is pretty integrated into ios so it might make it pretty hard to separate. Wouldn't be a problem if they allowed other browsers.