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Why is the site forcing "mobile version" on iPad users??
 

A recent update is forcing all my FT bookmarks to show the dreadful (and I mean, *truly* awful) mobile version of the site. How do I avoid this??

The post immediately above yours (from IBobi, replicated above) explains it, and it works - I'm accessing FlyerTalk from my iPad as well. All my bookmarks take me to the sites using Safari or Chome in the full site mode and not the mobile skin.

Every 24 hours? You're kidding me! Also, private mode is going to defeat those cookies. How do we get this fixed?

Many site functions are cookie based, and settings that eliminate cookies will also interfere with those functions.

Umm session cookies work fine in private mode, the site worked great before. So, seriously, every 24 hours it'll force back to the mobile version?? How to avoid this?

Secondly, if you bookmark anything in the site in full mode, it includes ?styleid=17 in the links but if you click on anything it dumps you back into the mobile version. Bad experience overall to have the mode change... It's kind of a mess.

My bookmarks are not going to mobile -- can you be specific about what you are doing i.e. device, browser, etc.

As to the 24 hour rule, that's not a new one since the update, it's always been a 24 hour cookie for a year or more now.

Here's the sequence:
1. Go to flyertalk.com -> Forums -> United (on an iPad).
2. Deal with the Choice Ad screen takeover (twice) and the awful mobile skin.
3. Select "View Full Site", full site appears.
4. Bookmark the page: this is the URL http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/unite...81/?styleid=17

-- snip --
1. Go back to the site next day via the bookmark.
2. Deal with Choice Ad screen takeover again.
3. Full site is displayed.
4. Select a thread, and the skin switches from full back into mobile.
5. Completely inconsistent user experience.

Reported

I'm not a mobile developer so I can't explain how or why this works but I've had a fair bit of luck with full version/desktop version persistence on my iPhone using the Puffin browser, which has a specific preference setting for this very issue. It's not the cleanest or most intuitive UX but I like its speed and the fact that I don't have these internecine battles like I do with Safari, FF, Chrome or Mercury.

Should be fixed now.

Appears to be, thanks.

And... It's back to broken again... skin switches unexpectedly.

Yep, still broken. Who needs the mobile site anyways?

That's what I'd like to know. Does anyone actually like it?