Thanks for the info! just FYI, on the game guides wikia app for iphone. all of the pages for the mainsite are there already. ill try to post a screenshot of what it shows. i didnt want you to have to do any extra work in that area if you were trying to.

here it is. looks pretty good. just the forums is empty and you cant see comments but everything else is there.

Hey Cbrad, thanks for this little update. I have now taken a number of steps forward. There are a number of issues I am pursuing concurrently at the moment. I will be posting a fuller update on all the progress probably in the next day or two.

What you see on your screenshot is a culmination of some work I have initiated already. Two or three days ago, I had taken the initial step to start assembling a Main Mobile Page (MMP) by giving it a title. My further research showed that creation of this page is relatively pain free. Essentially the MMP is a curated trimmed down version of the fully fledged existing site. The tool provided by Fandom for creation of an MMP is very easy to operate and allows for generation of a Mobile site within an hour.

This tool basically requires Admins to select key parts of the current content and point the MMP to these content topics. I will be seeking views of this community as well as the CK FB Group community about the key content to include on MMP over the next couple of days.

News (relatively good) about Fandom App will also be forthcoming in my fuller update.

Until then, stay tuned.

UA141

As some of you may have realised Wikis are now known as Fandoms. With this being the case, they have now started the process of migrating all the Wikis to the New Fandom web address. Our Wiki/Fandom has now been migrated and it happened seamlessly in the last fortnight.

This process encouraged Cbrad on this Fandom to check out the Fandom App. As he couldn't find our Fandom on the App platform, he enquired about this a few days ago. I had followed this up and it transpired that Fandoms have to meet a range of criteria before they can be put on the Fandom App. We were not meeting these criteria in three areas, these being Discussions feature not being enabled, lack of content on a Mobile Main Page and the weekly volume of traffic to the Fandom.

I have made progress with the first two of these issues and although we currently enjoy a weekly footfall/site views of between 8-10 K, it was insufficient for Fandom staff to consider our application currently. On seeking further clarity in this area, I was advised they are presently only considering Fandoms with traffic of 100 K and above. But all is not lost as they will look favourably at Fandoms that meet all other criteria once they automate the task of Fandom upload to App platform. Currently, there is a degree of manual effort required.

My purpose of writing to you on here is to seek some informed views from you. The Mobile Main Page (MMP) is a curated slimmed down version of the fully blown Fandom site. So the content is the same but the breath of content topics is limited. Therefore, I would like to know what content on this Fandom is most important to you, what areas of information do you regularly or most often look up?

Please list up to top 10 of your key searches in priority order, most important down to the least important. Once I have a fair amount of your responses, I will adjust the content that I am populating the MMP with. I am also seeking the views of the Crazy Kings Facebook Group community as well.

So for example;

Levels

Towers

Tournament Strategies

Equipment

Heroes

.

.

.

As regards Discussions, this is a feature introduced a while back but it has now started to gain more prominence. It was effectively designed to replace the Forums feature on the Fandom. I am preparing an article to explain the Discussions feature and how it works. I hope to publish this in next few days. This feature has now been introduced on our Fandom as of yesterday (Wednesday 6 February). This will run in tandem with Forums for the near future. Eventually, the Forums contents will be transferred over to Discussions. Beauty of Discussions is it allows users to converse over and across different devices, platforms and operating systems. Something that Forums is unable to do.

So please participate in this exercise and let me know your prioritised list of CK Fandom search visits by replying below.

I don't understand the kerfuffle about a Frandom app. I access this site (crazykings.fandom.com) in a web browser, whether it's on my computer, tablet, or phone, and everything seems to work great. Does the app do something different? How are discussions in an app different from a forum in a browser? I sure appreciate all your work on this site, Unknown Artist, but I genuinely don't get what you're working to change. I know I must be missing something, but I don't know what!

As for my viewing priorities: mainly the threads about strategies on different levels, then the pages on various cards, then whatever recent miscillaneous discussions there have been. When I had quests to do, I'd often look those up for where a good level to do a quest was, but I haven't had a new quest in a while. I don't really care about the non-strategy pages about the levels, as the content is generally just what I can see tapping on the level in the game.

Ann, thanks for your list of key searches. As regards the Fandom App, it provides another avenue to access our Wiki/Fandom. However, it uses the same contents as the mobile version of the site. Mobile version is trimmed and curated version of the full contents of the Wiki/Fandom.

I personally, as you, prefer using the full site on my laptop and iPad. However, statistics show that 50% of the traffic to Wikis/Fandoms currently is via mobile devices and increasing. So to this end we need to be prepared for this customer base.

Discussions v Forums - Forums have some limitations and issues that Discussions overcomes. Forum content do not show up on search engines whether external or internal. Forums are not cross platform, multi-device feature. The mobile sites hosts Discussions but not Forums, which means Apps do not have access to Forums either. Lastly and most crucially, Fandom organisation is working on eventually removing Forums altogether and replacing them with Discussions. The contents of Forums for communities like ours will be migrated to Discussions in the fullness of time.

One weakness of Discussions that I see is you are limited to one image/video per Discussion post. Our Forum threads for strategies invariably use multiple images and sometimes also include video content as well. I intend to raise this issue with Fandom and see what workaround they suggest. I will also seek views from users and Admins of other Wikis/Fandoms on Community Central.

But let me finish off by once again stating that I prefer to work on the full Crazy Kings site via a decent sized screen than on a part site with a tiny screen. This may simply be reflecting my considerable age.

Thanks for all your work! I personally also prefer the full website, but also know there’s an opportunity to grow the community possibly through the mobile view. My top visited pages: -level strat - towers - spells - heroes - forum/discussions

That’s good to know about the external search engines.

Thanks for all the work that goes into this, @UA141, my top visited pages:

Towers (upgrade times)

Spells (upgrade times)

Heroes (upgrade times)

Forum

I don't tend to use the level strategies, as prefer to work these out for myself, but if I have been stuck on a level for over a month, I will take a look.