[Merged] forums redirected to http://f.redflagdeals.com/

[Kaitlyn]

I actually just got the issue again.
Using Chrome.
Instead of deleting all the cookies related to redflagdeal, I have the extension "edit this cookie".
I just delete the one cookie...I can't remember what it was exactly...but it started with "m" or "m_" something (figuring it looked like it's referring to mobile something). After deleting that, I'm back to normal.
maybe you can check where in your site do you add this m_ cookies to the browser.

edit:
actually I just did it again.
I believe it must be some google search redflagdeal link, which goes to the mobile page, and going to those page, somehow sets the cookie "mtype" to value "basic", which then afterwards, you're stuck going to mobile page.

Thanks for the additional details! We're looking into getting this fixed

[mbalgavy]

deskyop+ie8
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729)
redirected to mobile version

[shpinktaar]

Win 7 with IE 9.0.8112.16421

It's been happening to me on 3 different comps all with relatively same OS and browser.

[JackWhyte]

both ie and firefox are going to the f-site from my desktop computer and it is horrendous to read.

[Manduh]

Thanks, this worked for me

(Chrome, Windows 7 - User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.57 Safari/536.11)

ok guys, i have found how to fix it, at least for chrome.

when your on this adresse

http://m.redflagdeals.com/

go all over throught the bottom and you will see,

MOBILE / DESKTOP: http://www.redflagdeals.com/?mobile_type=full

chose desktop and everything should go back to normal.

enjoy!

[JackWhyte]

I recently started getting moved to the mobile forum when I clicked posts or pages and it has been working good for almost a week.

[RenegadeX]

We recently added a feature that does browser detection and forwards you to the mobile site.

Could you answer a couple things that will help me figure out the bug:

Are you accessing the forums from your phone or desktop?
Are you using any sort of User-Agent modifier?
What is the User-Agent that appears when you go to http://whatsmyua.com/ ?

Over the last week, this issue has been happening to me frequently - pages that load suddenly are in "Touch" mode and I have to click "Desktop" at the bottom to switch back. Minutes or hours later, all of a sudden I'm back on Touch. I have not been using any mobile device with my RFD login.

I deleted all my redflagdeals-related cookies but the problem persists.

Desktop computer -- and my current user agent string:
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:14.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/14.0.1
.. but it also happened on Firefox 13.0.whatever and also when I tried browsing the forums with Maxthon for a day.

This may be related so I'll mention it here rather than in a new thread but I've also been getting a lot of "Please log in"-type situations, even though I'd not logged out - and even if I'd just loaded a page (while logged-in) a few minutes earlier. After entering and submitting my user/pass on the forum login page, I'm then taken to a redflagdeals.yellowpages.com login page, where it asks me again to enter my user/pass. After doing this, it then kicks me to the Edit Profile page rather whatever the desired page was that I was trying to access. It's very disruptive!

[codejerry]

I'm having this problem. I'm using chrome and its annoying. Its easily fixed if you open incognito mode...

running windows 7 on laptop

Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1) AppleWebKit/536.11 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/20.0.1132.57 Safari/536.11

[Kaitlyn]

Hey everyone,

Just want you to know that this is a top priority for our next release to the forums. I understand your frustration and we're working to fix it.

Is everyone able to confirm that this starts occurring to them when they click on a link from a search result? Notice some of the links in search results incorrectly point to "f.redflagdeals.com"

[popcorneater]

Hi, so the forum layout seems to have chagned on me! Did I do something bad?

it's all text, no avatars, very bare bones. I'm guessing I changed something without knowing it.

If someone can help me fix it that would be great.

thanks!

[MrDisco]

Hi, so the forum layout seems to have chagned on me! Did I do something bad?

it's all text, no avatars, very bare bones. I'm guessing I changed something without knowing it.

If someone can help me fix it that would be great.

thanks!

first guess - you're using the mobile version. scroll to the very bottom and switch to Desktop

[Jimboski]

That's definitely mobile version.

[popcorneater]

ahh.. my life is back to normal!

Thanks

[Catherine111]

I think everybody have faced this issue unknowingly in case of sudden browsing of another version.

[ipse]

Damn this is UBER-frustrating, please fix it.