sinbad
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The poll should allow you to pick 2 options, one for ToZ and one for the forums.
I was thinking if the majority of our visitors are coming from outreach they are probably mobile users from social media. 63% of those browsing YouTube also come from mobile users generally speaking.
If that's the case the mobile experience should be prioritised over desktop. I assume with the upcoming updates a lot of issues will be fixed, but it was at times quite annoying to navigate certain pages as a mobile user. I am not sure if it was just my shitty android or what though. Like the chakra activity hours page, and the josastrology aspects section you had to constantly rotate the screen cos it wouldn't fit on the screen completely. And sometimes this glitched out and reloaded the page and booted you off the natal chart. So you had to re-enter all the details again. Might just be a me problem thom
Also for example the main text on the homepage/welcome takes on average 5-9mins to read, each. A lot of people would click off, since they use their phones within a contextual framework of "short form content"... whereas this problem magically vanishes from their brains if they are on a desktop. Their mobile phone brains work on a ratio of "thumbscrolls to dopamine received" and it's very very difficult to get them out of this mode except to make them use a different device which isn't burdened by this association.
Like, they will watch a 5min video on YouTube, because it is associated with long-form content. Yet if that same video was on Instagram they would skip almost immediately. They are not there to look at long-form stuff. You don't go to the stripclub to read Plato. The contextual perception of the location is off.
Same with reading long articles on mobile. I don't have a problem with it, but I think you could keep people on the website for many more hours if you made this compromise of chopping up the articles into smaller chunks or removing verbiage. It feels a lot longer than it really is on mobile, because the eye (in Western countries) is used to broad horizontal left-to-right movements compared to narrow vertical reading spaces on mobile. So it feels more like a slog and an eyesore than it really should.
It is a very micro tweak, but IMO it works to make the experience quite a lot more pleasurable. By essentially hijacking the same addictive pathways that social media platforms exploit to keep people time-wasting on their platforms.
Unfortunately you have to "fight" against this retarded tendency nowadays.
I was thinking if the majority of our visitors are coming from outreach they are probably mobile users from social media. 63% of those browsing YouTube also come from mobile users generally speaking.
If that's the case the mobile experience should be prioritised over desktop. I assume with the upcoming updates a lot of issues will be fixed, but it was at times quite annoying to navigate certain pages as a mobile user. I am not sure if it was just my shitty android or what though. Like the chakra activity hours page, and the josastrology aspects section you had to constantly rotate the screen cos it wouldn't fit on the screen completely. And sometimes this glitched out and reloaded the page and booted you off the natal chart. So you had to re-enter all the details again. Might just be a me problem thom
Also for example the main text on the homepage/welcome takes on average 5-9mins to read, each. A lot of people would click off, since they use their phones within a contextual framework of "short form content"... whereas this problem magically vanishes from their brains if they are on a desktop. Their mobile phone brains work on a ratio of "thumbscrolls to dopamine received" and it's very very difficult to get them out of this mode except to make them use a different device which isn't burdened by this association.
Like, they will watch a 5min video on YouTube, because it is associated with long-form content. Yet if that same video was on Instagram they would skip almost immediately. They are not there to look at long-form stuff. You don't go to the stripclub to read Plato. The contextual perception of the location is off.
Same with reading long articles on mobile. I don't have a problem with it, but I think you could keep people on the website for many more hours if you made this compromise of chopping up the articles into smaller chunks or removing verbiage. It feels a lot longer than it really is on mobile, because the eye (in Western countries) is used to broad horizontal left-to-right movements compared to narrow vertical reading spaces on mobile. So it feels more like a slog and an eyesore than it really should.
It is a very micro tweak, but IMO it works to make the experience quite a lot more pleasurable. By essentially hijacking the same addictive pathways that social media platforms exploit to keep people time-wasting on their platforms.
Unfortunately you have to "fight" against this retarded tendency nowadays.
