There isnt any issue when i read posts or come on to this web site, but once i want to create a new topic, its a little bit broblem.
Is it the orientation of it? I could see the onscreen keyboard making a mess of thing. Works fine on the iPhone when vertical.
You can minimize the keyboard temporarily if your trying to view/quote previous posts.
I noticed there are a few things a bit broken on iPad… The reply window keeps hiding under the keypad, and the quote from other posts function often takes ten or twenty tries to activate.
Can you describe the “problem” a bit more? What Ipad are you on too - is it the ipad mini, or an Ipad Air, or an older ipad?
Not having a problem on either my iPad Air or my Nexus 7 tablet (2013). I’m using Chrome browser on both. If you’re having problems on iOS, you’re probably using Safari. Not a very good browser when compared to Chrome.
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Maybe not - but the site still needs to work well with Safari. I suspect most people on ipads are using Safari.
Poor user education is not a valid technical support issue. 
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Switch to the mobile version of the website by pressing the 3 lines next to your avatar in the top right. Hey presto, ipad friendly. Or safari friendly. Or whatever.
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Hm. It works slightly better in mobile view, but the quote function still works pretty inconsistently, it can take a lot of presses to get text select to come up, and then to get the quote reply box to come up.
You need to select the text, then press the black reply icon on the post, don’t use the quote reply pop up thing.
More considered response… I’m a volunteer Webmaster for quite a few charity organizations. I can count on getting a fair number of “your site doesn’t work in _____ browser” emails per month, almost always IE or Safari, the two biggest culprits. Since I’m tired of constantly hacking CSS and writing javascript to circumvent problems for people who won’t upgrade or replace software, my standard response these days is: “It works just fine in Chrome/Firefox - switch to one of those or be quiet. Thanks.”
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If it’s of any useful input in general, you probably need a pretty up to date browser for this website as it uses every website trick in the book. I couldn’t even sign up using a 2010 browser on my old phone.
Indeed. It needs to be compliant with the latest Web standards as Discourse is pretty bleeding edge in that area.
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Not sure whether that argument holds for Safari, generally the Mac / iPhone / iPad crowd are very good at updating to the latest version. Also Safari in WebKit form is widely used all over the place, often in applications where one can’t upgrade.
Just to make the argument for properly supporting Safari.
You need to make that argument to Apple.
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Its an ipad air…"
Does the mobile version of the website solve the problems?
It’s working a lot better now that I know how to switch to mobile view. Thanks!
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No, I don’t. Supporting browsers is the application developers choice, as well you know.
I build Web sites to support W3C standards, period. If browser developers can’t be bothered, it’s not my problem.
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