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.
Not inherently so. It can be used maliciously, and it can be used usefully. Web browsers are designed to at least contain potential damage by sandboxing the browser processes and by limiting how the javascript can speak to the rest of the computer.
That said, basically 95+% (I make this number up but it's probably correct) of user ad tracking, which is a nicer term for legitimized spyware, will be written in javascript. The mitigation strategy on desktop is to use the ublock origin extension. The mitigation strategy for cellphones is a big fat "it depends."
Oof :-/