New Stories Page Now Mobile-Friendly

I’m the 12” iPad user …

When I’m scrolling through new stories, I just go page-by-page. I’m not filtering by genre, so the Hot tag is probably the first and biggest attention-getter for me. But there are genres I don’t read so that’s probably the 2nd hurdle a story has to clear to get a click from me. I’ll also read the title and short description. If there are grammatical issues that’s another reason to skip. The new design separates all the key info I need, especially as I typically hold the iPad in landscape mode and drag the story list to make the text larger. Rotating to portrait orientation helps, but there’s still a lot of useless white space to traverse.

I am on a tablet. Hate it!

Too spread out.

Ratings not near the title for faster scanning.

Opting out...

Unusable on an iPad. Can’t find how to make text large enough to read. I love Literotica and will be so disappointed once the change is permanent.

Steve

It might be good for mobile, but not on a browser. The biggest problem is having the categories on the right and the rest of the information on the left. To get a readable line length would require narrowing the window too much for the rest of the information.

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Your comments are still messed. Before the "upgrades", the comments accepted basic HTML codes, such as <P> for paragraphs. Now, the require something along the lines of .

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@psycoxz Thank you for the comment on the Category placement on the new Story Cards. One of the major features of the new Story Cards over the Lit Classic Story Cards (which never really had a standard design as we rolled out different pages over the first couple decades of Lit's existence) is the bookmark icon. The bookmark icon needs to be in a standard place so that readers will always know where to click it.

Earlier today, when I tried a few mockups with the Category and Date on the left side (on the same line as the Author, as that's the only place it fits without adding extra vertical space), the bookmark icon looked lonely on the right side of the screen. In addition, it creates a sort of messy text line that looks like this:

by LiteroticaAuthor in LiteroticaCategory 12/14/2023

Mobile readers told us that scanning Categories was easier on the right side of the Story Card since it's always in the same place (because the date is the only item on this line with a predictable length). When we were initially working on the mobile Story Cards, phone readers told us they needed something easy to scan quickly, and the right side fixed-location placement was something that testers at that time wanted. Is your experience that it would be easier to scan the Category in that line of text with an unpredictable placement, rather than in a predictable location on every Story Card?

@AnonymousiPadUser Thank you for the feedback when using an iPad. Can you elaborate on why the new interface bothers you on a tablet? For the initial rollout of the Story Page in the new design (years ago), we worked with iPad, Android tablet, and Kindle readers to modify the way that the responsiveness works to match the experience they were asking for.

For example, the new interface allows tablet users (and everyone) to change font faces and font sizes on the Story Page and turn on or off dark mode sitewide. For tablets, we also changed the way that the sidebar works on the Story Page so that it gives them the best possible reading experience. All of this was done after the initial public launch and with extensive input and testing by tablet-using Lit members. The higher resolution or bigger screen tablets function more like a desktop screen, so your experience may be more similar to a desktop.

As far as the feedback when changing to the Classic Lit design, that's just to help us understand what people would like to see improved in the new design. You're welcome to just enter "Hello World" in that box, as I do. 😀

Having the category be out of eye scan line down the page really sucks, can yall move it to be inline with the titles on the left side again please?

1) I’ve always thought that there should be sub-categories. Loving Wives for example…sub-categories of RAAC, BTB, Cuck, etc.

2) Have the ability to list stories in multiple categories. Example: siblings enjoying anal sex for the first time——categories Incest, Anal, First time. Only need one copy of the story, but tagged in the different catigories.

3) When looking through an authors index of stories, have the ability to sort the stories by title, pub. date, rating etc.

4) Would love a page count on the listings. Sometimes I just want to skips stories greater than say 3 pages.

I guess, (hope!), you have user stats that show some significant majority of users are coming in on a mobile phone where screens are small? I haven’t kept up with all the comments here, but I don’t think I’ve seen any praising this new layout or singing the wonders of how it solved their navigation challenges.

I visit Literotica on a 12” IPad and while I’m happy to see the Hot tag return, overall the new design makes things worse for me. Looks like you’ve made it possible to return to “classic” without leaving feedback - if so, thank you. I will continue to use that interface as long as you allow.

The new format is so much easier to read. Would like to see it applied to all category listings as well.