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For the moment it won't be a problem. But if you're concerned about mobile results, this should be cleaned up by early April. When I do a test on this thread, I'm told by the test tool that everything is A-OK. Perhaps you should take a closer look at why your site specifically is having problems.

https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fcommunity.invisionpower.com%2Ftopic%2F408062-google-webmaster-tools-mobile-usability-issues%2F

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I would ignore them. Google's scans don't spell accuracy, they are pretty generic.

I got one a while ago, but for 3.4.6, e.g

Google systems have tested 2,290 pages from your site and found that 100% of them have critical mobile usability errors. The errors on these 2,290 pages severely affect how mobile users are able to experience your website.

Doing a scan on Google Page Speed only reveals: "Eliminate render-blocking JavaScript and CSS in above-the-fold content". Which isn't an actual problem in this case.

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Rhett posted a KB on this, and it certainly did do the trick for 3.4.x:

https://www.invisionpower.com/support/kb/_/34x-google-mobile-friendly-issues-r75

Google complained about 102,000 pages not being mobile friendly, and after going through the steps in Rhett's article, it was happy again.

HTH, warm regards, Wim

​Thats for 3.4.x - The Op is posting about 4.RC i believe

 

 

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Rhett posted a KB on this, and it cert

<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">

ainly did do the trick for 3.4.x:

https://www.invisionpower.com/support/kb/_/34x-google-mobile-friendly-issues-r75

Google complained about 102,000 pages not being mobile friendly, and after going through the steps in Rhett's article, it was happy again.

HTH, warm regards, Wim

​This works well when the forums is the start page.

When IP.Content is the home page (frontpage 1x2x2) - Not mobile-friendly.

Here are some of my tests with page 990 pixels wide

If using a meta tag

<meta name="viewport" content="width=990, initial-scale=1, maximum-scale=1">

page displays all of the smartphone display. In this way, the text is too small.

If using width=495, image of the first column is friendly. But display the whole page is problem.

I think that should be added in Front Manager/Frontpage Settings/Other ->Frontpage mobil template

which setting to select the  "Front Page (Single Column)"  - and there will be no problem with Mobile-Friendly Test

 

 

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​This works well when the forums is the start page.

When IP.Content is the home page (frontpage 1x2x2) - Not mobile-friendly.

​IP.Content was not made with mobile screens in mind and there are no settings or meta tags to fix that easily. One would need to make a lot of changes to the templates and CSS to make IP.Content fully mobile-friendly. If you haven’t done that already, it’s probably better just to make the 4.0 upgrade when it’s final and have a mobile-friendly site through the upgrade. 

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​IP.Content was not made with mobile screens in mind and there are no settings or meta tags to fix that easily. One would need to make a lot of changes to the templates and CSS to make IP.Content fully mobile-friendly. If you haven’t done that already, it’s probably better just to make the 4.0 upgrade when it’s final and have a mobile-friendly site through the upgrade. 

​It turned out easier than what I thought.

Furthermore width 990 follows and initial-scale have value 4.
Best result for the text is as increase in CSS font from 13 to 39.

Mobile-Friednly Test has already "Awesome! This page is mobile-friendly.":thumbsup:

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Using the initial scale = 4 decreases proportionally page 4 times. This reduces the font and also 4 times. (13-> ~~ 3 px) and text is very small.

When changing from 13 to 39 ( 39:4 ~~ 10 px - text is ок). I tested and 48. Compared to the images I saw large text and therefore chose 39.

I think that is understandable - the changes are only in a mobile skin.

 

See test

 

 

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Here's a check for your website: https://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/mobile-friendly/

I'm using IPB 3.4.7 and both, my IP-Content home-page and IP-Board forum is completely mobile-unfriendly => I'm afraid that google is going to rank me down.... hard

The new google algorithm will start at 21. of April... not enough time for IPB4 (plus some fixing-versions) => what to do?

(for some reason the screenshot provided does show the normal theme and doesn't switch to the mobile theme... why that?)

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Since v3.4.x is still being supported, perhaps IPS could release a responsive skin or upgrade? Or too much work?

Nah I don't think they will release it. Probably need to purchase separately from another skin coder or so.

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