@studentofearth

I've experienced the same thing - Opening another page will help c99 to load. Another glitch I've noticed is that the FB link will load some essays and not others. Don't know if it is connected or not. All of this is intermittent. Sometimes the site loads no problem. Other times, loading is a problem.

I don't use my phone for c99 much. The home page fits, but if I open an essay it is too wide for my phone. If I shrink it to fit so I don't have to scroll from side to side, the font size is very, very small.

I know it is not a mobile, but my XP computer is cranky because I have it so locked down and watch the packet activity continuously. Some of the issues I have noticed on it might help. Originally the new layout worked great, the last look with the drop columns(which I like)I noticed a few more issues. If my hardwired DSL is acting up I have more problems (might correlate to service fluctuations and changes with a mobile) where a page that had previously loaded becomes blank. Something is trying to refresh, maybe one of the third party items that leaves a cookie in-spite of the no cookies setting on the browser.

If when starting Firefox browser if my homepage caucus99percent.com/diaries does not respond and the browser dialog stays at waiting, I will open a second window to open www.rawstory.com, once data starts transferring from rawstory, c99 will populate its data. This occurs more frequently when there is a youtube video on the page. I think it is related the way it is saved to the diary. It does not happen with every video, but is a consistent problem when opening until the diary scrolls off the first page or in a diary with lots of youtube videos. I have not paid enough attention to ID which diarist which occurs with most often, which would provide further clues.

None of these problems occur on my Windows 7 or 10.

@Deja Not sure why, but text area is only slightly wider than home and Community Content pages, and font isn't microscopic using default text size on the device.

Kindle uses the Silk browser.

Glad others have the same issue and it's not just me losing my marbles lol.

I've tried it both on the default view, and by ticking the desktop version in my browser settings.

Just tested it via Chrome browser and it's same as whatever the default browser is on my Samsung Galaxy Amp Prime - too wide, font too small.

HOWEVER, the Community Content landing page is perfect. It changes once I click on an essay to open and read it. (Comments aren't as bad as actual essay content.)

Will boot up my kindle and see what it's like.

Oh, and I don't know exactly when it changed, but it did, because it was perfect in the beginning (new layout), just not now.

@JtC

In landscape mode, the left edge of the text in essays is cut off so that the first couple of letters on each line are not visible. (This doesn't happen in the comments, which display fine.) Also, while the gesture to zoom in works fine to enlarge the type, the pinch to reduce the screen doesn't work. It makes the whole window smaller and moves it to the center of the screen. Impossible to read. If I use my phone I have to put it in portrait mode to read essays due to this issue, which is also challenging because it's so small. I have to zoom in to see it, then scroll back and forth to read each line.

I use my iPad now instead of my phone to access the site during the workday. No problems on the tablet. At home, I use both desktop and tablet, occasionally my phone but the cut-off text on the left side is frustrating so I mostly avoid using the phone on this site.

I still prefer the new design overall. Appreciate all your work for us JtC!

I just made a change, can you check again and see if it made an improvement? Be sure to refresh the page so you're not viewing a cached version of the page.

It's now scalable so see if you can resize it to fit.