Was there always a mobile site?
Mar 3, 2015, 12:13 pm
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Was there always a mobile site?
I might be [clueless], but was there always a mobile site or is this brand new?
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Mar 3, 2015, 1:08 pm
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I don't know how new the http://mobile.flyertalk.com/ site is, if that is what you are referring to. But I think it is getting a lot more use, as there is no current way to access the site via a dedicated app. At one time there was an app for at least Android and Apple, however the apps are now unsupported.
Mar 3, 2015, 1:22 pm
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FlyerTalk predates mobile sites existing, so certainly there wasn't "always" a mobile FT site, but the FT mobile site has been around for a couple years at least, because I remember reading in threads a year or two ago that people using the mobile site could not see Wikiposts (that many threads now have) on the mobile site back then.
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Mar 3, 2015, 4:40 pm
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Mar 3, 2015, 6:17 pm
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Mar 4, 2015, 10:18 am
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The first mention of the FlyerTalk mobile site in this forum is November 9, 2009.
Recently, FT began defaulting to the mobile site if you attempted accessing it from your mobile device. At the bottom of the page you can request to proceed to the full site using your browser.
We'll start a new thread for FT mobile site issues, etc. so we can corral all them critters, er, have a single thread Admin can respond to and we can see if there are solutions to bugs and glitches we might experience with our diverse mobile tools.
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Recently, FT began defaulting to the mobile site if you attempted accessing it from your mobile device. At the bottom of the page you can request to proceed to the full site using your browser.
We'll start a new thread for FT mobile site issues, etc. so we can corral all them critters, er, have a single thread Admin can respond to and we can see if there are solutions to bugs and glitches we might experience with our diverse mobile tools.
One post has been moved from this thread; it can be found here: http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/techn...tc-2015-a.html
/JDiver, Senior Moderator
Mar 4, 2015, 12:07 pm
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Mar 4, 2015, 2:06 pm
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Just started defaulting for me tonight too, maybe due to me clicking on the mobile site out of curiosity! Cookie clear time...
Mar 5, 2015, 3:45 pm
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The old mobile site was based on the WiForums WAP platform. It was a web application that connected directly to the database and had its own method for parsing the data. It was optimized for early smartphones. The new skin (I assume it is a skin, that is) is likely a direct add-on for vBulletin. This is likely auto-selected with a browser agent detection script for mobile devices. Clicking View Full Site likely changes your skin selection back to the default. This is the method we used to use on my vBulletin website.