This needs an app or something

Works just fine on my shitty droid-based phone. But the mobile site is crap, I have to load the real site.

I hate mobile sites to begin with so if I ever had to use my android to be on the site, I would be clicking the "Show Desktop" option to begin with. I've never seen a mobile site that was worth looking at.

Hey everyone! Thanks for the feedback on the mobile site. I'm one of the guys responsible for building Equipboard, so it's extremely helpful to hear what you have to say.

The Equipboard team is still pretty small - hopefully growing soon ;) With limited resources, we need to work on the things that have the biggest impact for the most people. When making a mobile site, we decided to first focus on a read-only experience (and following artists you like):

http://i.imgur.com/wdLeER5l.png

la_phant you're absolutely right, we need to make it so that you can add new gear, save gear, and contribute items to artists from the mobile app. We actually really want to build a native mobile app for iPhone & Android soon!

jimmarchi1 I'm curious about your feedback - what types of things would you want to be able to do on mobile?

I feel you guys' pain too. It would be awesome if I could write a review or save new gear or upvote a good comment from my phone... and right now none of that is possible :(

What would be extremely helpful to the Equipboard team is to hear the things that would be most important to you on an Equipboard mobile experience. What are you missing the most?

Thanks!! 🤘

+1 on mobile app!! Pleaaassse! I've been on Equipboard since early days and I love how it gets better all the time, but stepping up the mobile game would be huge. I think a native app could make a lot of the interactions with other users really interesting.

The home page feed for example - being able to filter it to just the things I care about (just electronic musicians & DJs for example), and vote things up or add comments (or corrections even in the case of submissions) inline. Saving stuff to my list would be nice as well from the app.

see, I would rather just be able to do the forum and review gear on the mobile site... I really don't like being limitited to a bunch of famous dude's equipboards... that's not why I sign in every day or so. Just overall more interactivity and less emphasis on big name musicians would be cool. I am not a hero-worshipper and there are a bunch of guys like me lurking around this site reviewing gear out the whazoo. Let us be heard even when we're on the subway!

Cheers!

I totally second all of that!

Couldn't you just log in, though? You have an account.

I'm sure the creators of this site were going for more members and put that there for that reason, kind of like Pinterest. you can't view anything on there until you make an account. Thank Equipboard that it doesn't block the entire page.

In reply to Ronny, I'd like to just second your forum idea. Gearslutz is a mess, but these forums aren't any different, there's no order. Topics just get thrown on a list, and the OCD in me wants to fix that. UG certainly knows what's going on with there forums.

Sure, the UG forums seem a little basic and messier, but It's a lot better than that list of topics we have now.

Don't get me started on GearSlutz! I like that this site is way more pinterest-like. The limited forum prevents flame wars and such and its so easy to find a piece of gear you are thinking of purchasing and see what everyone's saying about it. This could turn into the coolest music equipment site on the web. It is close already, that's why I keep coming back and keep reviewing every guitar, synth, amp etc that I have ever used.

CLOSE contender to being the biggest. Except we're up against UberproAudio. They're very complete with who has what, but it doesn't look like they cite sources, so they make me very skeptical, even if they are accurate.

uber pro is a bunch of bunk! stock photos, no years specified for guitars and amps... AND NO USER REVIEWS!

uber pro is a bunch of bunk! stock photos, no years specified for guitars and amps... AND NO USER REVIEWS!

Haha, you're right about that. Though, the comments count for something, eh? Random people saying "I though [insert musician] had [insert gear]?"

Uber still has a lot going, though, so, if anything, we should get going with the app. Imagine if it had a feature that can snap photos and upload to artists as gear photos, eh?

Well, I tend to go to sweetwater and amazon for reviews but you are right about Uber.

I've found inaccurate gear on artists' pages there many times. I've even seen bass players with guitar gear on them.

TO SIMS:

I do believe we need a way to message other members directly.

great idea.... gchiaren?????