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Subject: Are mobile forums on the horizon?
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Posted by: R3ACTlON
Hard is good.

Just chilling in hospital at the moment on my Blackberry loading huge bnet pages. I have 3G so it isn't exactly as slow as it used to be, but are there any plans to make a mobile version of the bnet forums?

Plus how hard would it be to make them (I'm just curious about that one)

  • 12.16.2011 7:24 AM PDT

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I think it should be through the Bungie app. Signing in regularly through your phone is not secure.

  • 12.16.2011 7:25 AM PDT

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The idea has been suggested way back when the mobile version of the site was released. I believe that they will try to make it possible in the future, but I don't think that it will be a reality anytime soon.

  • 12.16.2011 7:29 AM PDT
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I sure hope not. I don't ever want to have to wonder whether the person I'm conversing with is on the toilet or not.

  • 12.16.2011 7:32 AM PDT

Posted by: spartain ken 15
Signing in regularly through your phone is not secure.
I'm not sure what this statement is supposed to mean.

On-topic: It has been hinted at many times. I'm sure we'll see mobile forum features eventually. Until then, this tool provides a nice read-only view of the forums for mobile devices.

[Edited on 12.16.2011 7:45 AM PST]

  • 12.16.2011 7:37 AM PDT

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I sure hope not. I don't ever want to have to wonder whether the person I'm conversing with is on the toilet or not.

  • 12.16.2011 8:01 AM PDT

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Posted by: spartain ken 15
Signing in regularly through your phone is not secure.
I'm not sure what this statement is supposed to mean.

YOU'RE NOT WEARING YOUR TINFOIL HAT, BEAR!

  • 12.16.2011 8:03 AM PDT
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Laptops?
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I sure hope not. I don't ever want to have to wonder whether the person I'm conversing with is on the toilet or not.

Damn it, Cheeto666, now I have to think about that...

  • 12.16.2011 8:12 AM PDT
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Posted by: R3ACTlON
Hard is good.

Yeah I'm here often enough to know they've been hinted and that, this thread is not saying that they are a fresh idea, I was wondering when! :)

  • 12.16.2011 9:23 AM PDT

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I hope they are eventually...

  • 12.16.2011 9:24 AM PDT

They already exist. http://m.bungie.net

Unless you're referring to the App, which would be awesome.

  • 12.16.2011 9:28 AM PDT
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I'm actually comfortable with browsing the forums on a smartphone. It's way better on a tablet though.

  • 12.16.2011 9:38 AM PDT

The funny thing actually is that I'm working phone at the moment. While I still am able to use the forums, I sometimes can be a bit of a hassle. I have been hoping for a more intuitive and efficient mobile design for quite some time now. I really would love to see something like this be brought into existence. Even if it is a third party application made by someone in the community. It still would be quite helpful.

  • 12.16.2011 9:52 AM PDT

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Hope to God they are.

  • 12.16.2011 9:56 AM PDT
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Posted by: R3ACTlON
Hard is good.

Posted by: ctjl96
They already exist. http://m.bungie.net

Unless you're referring to the App, which would be awesome.

Please look into your advice prior to giving it, we all know there is a mobile site for various news titbits, there are no forums.

  • 12.16.2011 10:14 AM PDT

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I hope they're working on it. While I don't mind using the "desktop" forums on my phone, it would make everything a lot easier.

  • 12.16.2011 10:19 AM PDT

lolwhoops. If your phone is a touch screen, try touching a part of the page and holding it and then selecting "mobile view". That's what I do.
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Posted by: ctjl96
They already exist. http://m.bungie.net

Unless you're referring to the App, which would be awesome.

Please look into your advice prior to giving it, we all know there is a mobile site for various news titbits, there are no forums.

  • 12.16.2011 12:04 PM PDT
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Posted by: The Storm
Just chilling in hospital at the moment on my Blackberry loading huge bnet pages. I have 3G so it isn't exactly as slow as it used to be, but are there any plans to make a mobile version of the bnet forums?

Plus how hard would it be to make them (I'm just curious about that one)


Well, it's certainly not easy to make a mobile site. I'm in a web page design class, and some of the students were tasked with making a mobile version of their site (I'm not one of them, but I will dedinitly be learning how to in the near future).

Plus, we just got some tutorials on how to make them, so we're still below sea level on how to put one together. But, that's what school is for :)

[Edited on 12.16.2011 12:25 PM PST]

  • 12.16.2011 12:23 PM PDT

I hope not.

  • 12.16.2011 12:52 PM PDT

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If there are forums set up for smart phones i'm never going to pay attention durring lecture. hah!

  • 12.16.2011 1:00 PM PDT

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You could always use Dazarobbo's Bnetmobile:

http://mobile.bungie.co/

Mobile forums and such, no posting unfortunately, but you could always just open the same page and make your post.

  • 12.16.2011 1:14 PM PDT

Posted by: spartain ken 15
I think it should be through the Bungie app. Signing in regularly through your phone is not secure.
That's quite a bold statement. Can you justify it?

Posted by: insaneAssass1n9
Even if it is a third party application made by someone in the community.
That's extremely unlikely to happen because...

1. If the regular browser approach is taken (ie. just a website you navigate to), the site would not be able to provide any services to you which require authentication. That includes posting, voting, viewing private groups, etc... basically everything you can't do while signed out.

To provide those services, the third party site essentially needs control of your account. Meaning, you would need to willingly give your cookies (which is what identifies your session on the site) to the third party. There is no difference between doing that and your cookies being stolen, except that you're allowing it to happen.

2. If the approach was to use a native application (eg. iPhone app) which does not allow you to securely sign in through bungie.net/WLID, the problem above still exists. And even if it did, if the browser allows for third party script injection (something similar to Greasemonkey) or extensions, there still exists the possibility for a malicious user to steal your cookies* and compromise your account.

In the off-chance that those extensions/scripts didn't allow network access (which even include something simple like getting an image), it's a massive amount of effort to have to scrap the existing HTML and reshape it for a mobile device, and to be able to continually do that each time bungie.net changes.


* There is one possible exception to this, which is if bungie.net supplies its session cookies with the HttpOnly flag (which I don't think it currently does - kind of bad IMO) and the browser being used supports it.

  • 12.16.2011 6:19 PM PDT

It does. The BNGAuth cookie, which is the session cookie that identifies which account you are on, is flagged as httpOnly.
Posted by: dazarobbo
* There is one possible exception to this, which is if bungie.net supplies its session cookies with the HttpOnly flag (which I don't think it currently does - kind of bad IMO) and the browser being used supports it.

  • 12.16.2011 6:21 PM PDT