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JDiver

Nov 25, 2013 3:51 pm

How can I always "View Full Site" and NOT Mobile site?

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To set your options to NEVER SEE THE MOBILE SKIN while you’re signed in:

From the top of page blue ribbon menu, go to My FlyerTalk

In the Menu go to Settings & Options

Select Edit Options

Select your display options as shown below

For those using Greasemonkey:

Quote:

Originally Posted by Spanish (Post 27896638)

All you need to do is add "?styleid=17" to the end of any Flyertalk URL.

:cool: For those with Greasemonkey, a simple script for you. You no needing to be logged in for this to be effective.

Here you go:

Code:

 // ==UserScript==

 // @name        Flyertalk_Remove_Infinite_Scroll

 // @match       *://*.flyertalk.com/*

 // @run-at      document-start

 // @grant       none

 // ==/UserScript==

 

 var oldUrlPath  = window.location.pathname;

 

 /*--- Test that "?styleid=17" is at end of URL, excepting any "hashes"

 or searches.

 */

 if (window.location.href.toString().indexOf("?styleid=17") != -1) return false;

 if ( ! /\?styleid=17$/.test (oldUrlPath) ) {

 

 var newURL  = window.location.protocol + "//"

 + window.location.host

 + oldUrlPath + "?styleid=17"

 + window.location.search

 + window.location.hash

 ;

 /*-- replace() puts the good page in the history instead of the

 bad page.

 */

 window.location.replace (newURL);

 }

aeropix

Aug 15, 2015 1:10 pm

How can I always "View Full Site" and NOT Mobile site?

Hey, some time ago the Flyertalk website got changed, so that it defaults to a "Mobile Version" skin when opened. When the change occurred, there was a letter sent to the users promising that we could choose the "Full Version" as our default browsing experience.

So far I cannot figure out how to do this, and I am really sick of scrolling all the way to the bottom of the site and choosing "View Full Site" before I can begin browsing.

Can anybody tell me how to set "View Full Site" as default, and never have to see the frustrating "mobile" version again?

Thanks for the advice! I hope somebody knows the solution!

Katykat

Aug 15, 2015 1:47 pm

This very thing has just happened to me again, this time as I was actually viewing a thread. It's really annoying as sometimes the " view full site" button doesn't respond.

camille55

Aug 15, 2015 5:10 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Katykat (Post 25275969)

This very thing has just happened to me again, this time as I was actually viewing a thread. It's really annoying as sometimes the " view full site" button doesn't respond.

I agree, the view full site button not working is a PITA. Could someone in the know respond to the OP.

missingmanager

Aug 16, 2015 12:59 am

Quote:

Originally Posted by camille55 (Post 25276656)

I agree, the view full site button not working is a PITA. Could someone in the know respond to the OP.

I am having the same problem. The "View full site" button does not work because it is covered by the edges of an advert for a hotel.

FL390

Aug 16, 2015 1:50 pm

Same issue here. I was viewing regular desktop site just fine on my iPad. Now it defaults to this terrible mobile layout and the view full site button is obscured by the add at the bottom. I can't attached a screen shot from the crappy mobile site so here is a link: http://i.imgur.com/DJXGr1a.jpg That flight delay compensation add is preventing me from clapping view full site.

If anyone knows a way to permentaly disable the mobile site please share.

IBobi

Aug 17, 2015 3:09 pm

If anyone still sees obscured pages from bad mobile ads from this point on, please let me know.

travelmad478

Feb 17, 2016 10:15 am

Are others still having this problem? (I see that this thread is from August 2015 with no more recent posts.) The mobile site comes up about 25% of the time on my iPad, and I do not ever want it--I always want the full site. How do I get that?

JDiver

Feb 17, 2016 3:50 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by travelmad478 (Post 26199391)

I'd like to know as well, but suspect the answer is to use the Go to Full Site option at the bottom of the page. Myna android and iOS devices default to the Mobile site unpredictably.

IBobi

Feb 17, 2016 4:17 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by JDiver (Post 26201429)

I'd like to know as well, but suspect the answer is to use the Go to Full Site option at the bottom of the page. Myna android and iOS devices default to the Mobile site unpredictably.

That's right. You can't "always" go to full site -- it's cookie based, so you will need to click GO TO FULL SITE every so often.

SpammersAreScum

Feb 17, 2016 7:06 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by IBobi (Post 26201575)

That's right. You can't "always" go to full site -- it's cookie based, so you will need to click GO TO FULL SITE every so often.

Now you've got me curious. If I haven't deleted the cookie, and the cookie expiration date (which I know you can set to years in the future) has not passed, why would the "full site" preference be lost?

IBobi

Feb 17, 2016 7:17 pm

It's at most a 24 hour cookie.

travelmad478

Feb 18, 2016 5:34 am

Yes, I've been clicking "go to full site" every time, but (1) that is a PITA, and (2) during the process of going to the full site, you lose your place on the page if you originally clicked on "go to first unread post" to get to it.

Why this can't be a permanent preference? Not to mention, is there anyone that actually likes or needs the mobile site? It's not hard to read the normal one on a tablet or phone.

SpammersAreScum

Feb 18, 2016 7:47 am

Quote:

Originally Posted by IBobi (Post 26202362)

It's at most a 24 hour cookie.

Sounds like extending that to a few days -- preferably more -- would reduce a lot of frustration.

tim0409

Mar 19, 2016 5:09 am

Like others my iPad intermittently jumps to the mobile site - a fix would be greatly appreciated as it is annoying! :)

IBobi

Mar 21, 2016 8:43 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by tim0409 (Post 26354471)

Like others my iPad intermittently jumps to the mobile site - a fix would be greatly appreciated as it is annoying! :)

Selecting mobile/desktop is cookie based, and the cookie expires after 24 hours, so you will need to select it once per day.

djmp	Apr 9, 2016 5:22 pm

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??

JDiver

Apr 9, 2016 10:47 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by djmp (Post 26462206)

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??

Quote:

Originally Posted by IBobi (Post 26367301)

Selecting mobile/desktop is cookie based, and the cookie expires after 24 hours, so you will need to select it once per day.

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.

djmp	Apr 9, 2016 11:46 pm

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

IBobi

Apr 11, 2016 3:52 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by djmp (Post 26463223)

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.

djmp	Apr 11, 2016 8:37 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by IBobi (Post 26470989)

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.

IBobi

Apr 11, 2016 8:40 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by djmp (Post 26471961)

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.

djmp	Apr 12, 2016 9:01 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by IBobi (Post 26471975)

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.

IBobi

Apr 13, 2016 2:11 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by djmp (Post 26477357)

Reported

essxjay

Apr 16, 2016 4:50 pm

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.

IBobi

Apr 18, 2016 5:03 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by djmp (Post 26477357)

Should be fixed now.

djmp	Apr 21, 2016 10:52 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by IBobi (Post 26503650)

Should be fixed now.

Appears to be, thanks.

djmp	Apr 24, 2016 5:23 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by djmp (Post 26519393)

Appears to be, thanks.

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

DeafFlyer

Apr 25, 2016 6:13 am

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

travelmad478

Apr 25, 2016 6:41 am

Quote:

Originally Posted by DeafFlyer (Post 26531489)

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

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

EsherFlyer

Apr 26, 2016 12:06 pm

The mobile site is truly terrible on my Windows Phone.

For as long as I can remember I've been able to use the full site, and that generally sticks for a few weeks (based on discussion above I'd posit that visiting before the cookie expires refreshes it).

Over the last couple of days something seems to have changed so that every new page I go to (eg from forum thread list into thread) jumps back to mobile, which is completely unreadable and even worse for posting replies.

Can you go back to the old behaviour?

EsherFlyer

Apr 26, 2016 2:07 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by EsherFlyer (Post 26538281)

Hmmm. Seems better straight away. I was seeing database access errors at the same time, so maybe some platform instability was instantly zapping the cookies :confused:.

djmp	Apr 29, 2016 8:19 am

Seriously, can we get this fixed?

The site is a mess, it's jumping back and forward between the unreadable mobile version (why do you believe this is a better experience?) and the full site. Bookmarked links to the full site started to work for a bit then broke and have now stayed broken.

That, plus database errors and hypher-intrusive ads - wow. It'd be great to go back to the way it was. Please consider this.

IBobi

Apr 29, 2016 12:44 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by djmp (Post 26552508)

Today we had a database issue and it's now resolved.

Mych	Apr 30, 2016 4:38 pm

Why can't the link for the full site be at the top of the page ?
And a little larger too, so it will be easier to see ?

Mych
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gaobest

May 1, 2016 10:01 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mych (Post 26558889)

Why can't the link for the full site be at the top of the page ?
And a little larger too, so it will be easier to see ?

Mych
_

Agreed - I accept and understand that ft has various it issues. This is free and sometimes free things aren't perfect.
In the meantime setting a Full site link on top makes it a bit easier.

And if not, it's not a huge deal to scroll to bottom of page to click the Full site.

And I agree that having to sign in frequently isn't fun, but it's also not super inconvenient.

djmp	May 20, 2016 7:45 am

The site switching between full/mobile is still an issue. Bookmarks to the full site work until you hit a thread then and then it switches back to the mobile skin. This was fixed for a bit then broke again. Could we get this fixed? Or at least include a "view full site" button not at the page bottom?

IBobi

May 23, 2016 3:44 pm

Quote:

Originally Posted by djmp (Post 26654990)

Can you be specific, i.e. I am using this device with this browser and I am doing x y z and this happens... include screen shots if possible?

returnoftheyeti

Jun 4, 2016 9:30 am

On an iPad, at the top nxt to the address bar there is a box with an arrow. Click it. A dialog box pops up. The bottom row of icons, scroll to the right. Choose "request desktop site".

And yes, the mobile version is crap, and yes it changes from desktop to mobile when switching pages in a thread.

Mych	Jun 11, 2016 4:17 am

Quote:

Originally Posted by returnoftheyeti (Post 26727705)

... On an iPad, at the top nxt to the address bar there is a box with an arrow. Click it. A dialog box pops up. The bottom row of icons, scroll to the right. Choose "request desktop site".

I think that the availability of "request desktop site" depends on the browser you aare using. On my Android tablet, Firefox has it, but Opera does not.

Mych

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