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slightlv

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Wed Nov 29, 2023, 02:58 PM Nov 2023

Since the bitter cold hit, my disabilities [View all]

have kept me in bed for a majority of the days. Because of that, I've been using my phone to access DU. Since DU4, it's been great and easy to use... until day before yesterday (Monday, 11/27). I'd been using the phone to read DU quite a bit that day and everything was going great until sometime in the mid-afternoon (I think). At that time, everything on the page got jumbled.

Instead of there being tabs at top for Nav and My Stuff, each of those tabs is spelled out completely on the same page, one line per item. In addition, the fonts are really screwed up. There are lines that are written on top of the preceding line, for example; rendering all unreadable.

Further, the width is screwed up on the phone. There is no longer a maximum width that fits the viewable section of the phone.

Even the comments, themselves, are screwed up.

I had changed over to "Skinner mode" and up until Monday, it was working fine. Thinking that perhaps this was an issue now (for some reason), I changed preferences to all other modes, one at a time. However, nothing straightened out at any of the attempts.

The phone, for reading DU, is now extremely hard. It's impossible if I want to read the comments and add my own voice.

Is anyone else having any of these problems with their phones? I use a Samsung Android (the latest smartphone, as of last year). I'll admit I'm much more proficient on a computer. I guess I'm just an old lady when it comes to this smartphone. I just can't understand why, after I opened an article in DU and read it, and then clicked to go back to the front page, that page was then screwed up, and all of DU has been screwed up since on my phone.

Like I said, I'm disabled and using the phone for a lot of things while I'm laying out in the bed. I've brought my laptop into the bedroom and have been using it, but I really liked the mobile DU app when I was first using it. What could have gone wrong? What in the world did I do to screw things up so badly?!

Thanks for any help you can give me...

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