Well, then YES, it is new!
Previously this was only available for Android users. iPhone finally made it available, so I did an update last night, and now it seems it's available for both operating systems!!
Regarding alerts, see my post here, and please continue to post any issues / questions / feedback regarding alerts to that thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/alerts-not-disappearing.1445608/post-24041989
Ya, this is a great example of the decisions we have to make to accommodate all the complexities of users, devices, browsers, etc. etc. etc. Tradeoffs :(
Sooo.... if everyone could get on the same phone and browser combo, that would really help... thanks!
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The "postbit" is the area with your username, avatar, awards, etc.
Both desktop and mobile versions of the forum have a postbit, but on desktop it's on the side (left) of each post, bigger, and contains more info. Mobile (portrait mode) is smaller and at the top of each post.
Here's an example reason why we changed it:
We may come up with a different solution later (than just shrinking the text), but for now this was the easiest way to clean it up.
Also, we have to remember that about 70% of the visits to BYC are on mobile, so those peeps don't even see that...
Yup, we discovered a bug in the 10k given and looks like it is fixed now :)
That's the wonderful thing about BYC is if there are aspects / areas to it that peeps don't like or that don't pertain to them, they can pretty easily avoid / dismiss it.
With millions of visitors a month, it's pretty...