KSP Forums App?

[Vanamonde]

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[sumghai]

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My understanding is that one of the reasons for the forums migration from vBulletin to IPB was because the latter has native support for a responsive UI (i.e. elements that resize/rearrange themselves based on the device).

If you resize your browser window so that it is around the size of a typical mobile phone display, you'll find that the forums automatically optimizes itself for viewing on mobile devices. Therefore, there is no need to reinvent the wheel and make a dedicated mobile app.

On 7/01/2016 at 0:17 PM, Virtualgenius said:

They are pouring there efforts into console games why not just do the whole suite and throw in apps as well

Because each type of software requires specific and sometime mutually exclusive/unrelated skills - the web scripting techniques used in developing websites/forums is very different from writing compiled code/assets for desktop games, which again are different from optimizing/rewriting the same game for consoles, and again very different from writing real-time software designed to run on real-life industrial-grade scientific instruments.

Software developers and development companies each have their own specialty, and are not Jacks-of-all-trades that can be shuffled between fundamentally different projects of a whim.