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I agree that a mobile platform would be quite helpful, something that could be ported to a variety of app stores for various devices.
We are working on increasing the mobile-friendliness of Head-Fi. Even though it's still a long way from ideal for mobile browsing, several fixes (particularly with the text editor as it appears in most mobile browsers) have been rolled out, and will continue to roll out.
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The way images are treated is still completely backwards. So there's the possibility of uploading ONE image at a time to the site (no bulk uploader available), so it gets embedded in the WYSIWYG editor (no professional BB-code editor available), or there is the possibility to use full, tiresome, annoying HTML code INCLUDING alt tags to embed them when they're hosted on another site.... this is so incredibly much hassle, so annoying, so tiresome, compared to BB code. I can't believe that hasn't been fixed in the month or two that "Huddler" has been running on Head-Fi. Please, for crying out loud, finally fix that thing so it is halfway as usable as any other forum system running on any other site.
In short, please finally enable BB code, like any other reputable forums system on this planet. Please. Pretty please. With sugar on top.
On your forum (which uses vBulletin), the only option to upload multiple images is via BB-code. We are working to restore BB-code functionality here, and expect to be rolling that out as soon as we can. Like other updates we're working on, full restoration of BB-code support will be iterative in nature, but there's a strong push for that now, thanks in large part to strong feedback on the matter from veteran members (including
very vocal pushing from me).
vBulletin (even as it is implemented on your forum) does not support multiple uploads of images, except through BB-code. The WYSIWYG image upload button was still used more often than BB-code by most members (on the vBulletin-based Head-Fi). With respect to that function alone (the WYSIWYG image upload function), I have found the image upload button here to be far more capable and versatile than the image upload button in what was our vBulletin install. For example, here, you're given the choice between uploading an image from your computer
or via URL (as opposed to just URL), which means that one need not first upload an image to a hosting service and then get the URL from there. I always found it inconvenient to have to first find a photo hosting location to upload my images to so that I could URL-link it in the post. There are times the images I have are images located on my computer that I've not previously uploaded anywhere else.
Also, one thing, even after we get thoroughly underway with the major text editing revisions that we're working on, that I'd like to see continue is the image properties function in the editor here (as well as the aforementioned ability to post images directly from one's computer). For example, if you upload a large image, you can (in the editor) right-click the image, choose image properties, and choose the width (and/or height) of the image as you want it to appear in your post (and clicking on that re-sized image would then show the full-sized version). Here's an (extreme) example:
If you left-click on the image above, you can see it in full size (which is HUGE), even though I've chosen to display it in-thread at only 480 pixels wide, which, again, I've done via image properties (by right-clicking on the image in the edit window). I find this
very handy.
Again, we're working on restoring BB-code support. It's a'comin'. But WYSIWYG to WYSIWYG (this platform versus vBulletin), I find image management/uploading in the context of posting to be substantially easier on this platform (both from a multiple image loading standpoint, as well the versatility of display options).
