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Mobile forums-Something has gone wrong

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  • autono-wally, erotibot300autono-wally, erotibot300 love machine Registered User regular
    Same for every mobile browser I use, desktop version works

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    finally got to a desktop

    mobile is borked for me too

    how do you log in to desktop mode on your phone?

    =p

  • DrovekDrovek Registered User regular
    +1 on Android, both Firefox and Chrome and only when logged in. Viewing desktop site works, at least.

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  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    finally got to a desktop

    mobile is borked for me too

    how do you log in to desktop mode on your phone?

    =p

    While on the “something went wrong” page use the specific widget for your mob browser to like access/add to favorites or clear your mushroom porn browsing history and use “request desktop site”

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    finally got to a desktop

    mobile is borked for me too

    how do you log in to desktop mode on your phone?

    =p

    While on the “something went wrong” page use the specific widget for your mob browser to like access/add to favorites or clear your mushroom porn browsing history and use “request desktop site”

    ok ok

    now how should I advise my .... friend .... who doesn't know about widgets or mob browsers? Obviously he knows about mushroom porn

  • ChanusChanus Harbinger of the Spicy Rooster Apocalypse The Flames of a Thousand Collapsed StarsRegistered User regular
    El Skid wrote: »
    Interestingly I’m getting this on my iPhone but not my iPad, which are both generally treated as mobile devices.

    Accessing using firefox on the iPad, failing to access using safari on my iPhone

    ipad loads the desktop site, so that would probably be why it works

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  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    Xaquin wrote: »
    finally got to a desktop

    mobile is borked for me too

    how do you log in to desktop mode on your phone?

    =p

    While on the “something went wrong” page use the specific widget for your mob browser to like access/add to favorites or clear your mushroom porn browsing history and use “request desktop site”

    ok ok

    now how should I advise my .... friend .... who doesn't know about widgets or mob browsers? Obviously he knows about mushroom porn

    Chrome on Android, click the 3 vertical buttons in the upper right and choose desktop mode.

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  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    Chrome on iOS, it’s the 3 horizontal dots in the lower right

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    my friend says thank you!

  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    The sad part is that you can only see these warnings/advisements if you are either on desktop or are not logged into mobile. I don't think a notification bar has been posted yet, which makes sense if the admins are away or out of town.

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  • jungleroomxjungleroomx It's never too many graves, it's always not enough shovels Registered User regular
    Mobile Firefox removed the ability to view desktop sites apparently

    So I'm on Safari

  • ZythonZython Registered User regular
    Yeah, I've been having this problem since yesterday. Mobile Safari. Works on my desktop.

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  • BarrakkethBarrakketh Registered User regular
    Mobile Firefox removed the ability to view desktop sites apparently

    So I'm on Safari
    It's there for me on Android, checked with Firefox 99.1.1 and Nightly.

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  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    If I visit the mobile site on incognito mode, I can browse it without a problem.

    Mobile doesn't work for me other wise, pixel 6, chrome, fully updated versions of each

  • BahamutZEROBahamutZERO Registered User regular
    Barrakketh wrote: »
    Mobile Firefox removed the ability to view desktop sites apparently

    So I'm on Safari
    It's there for me on Android, checked with Firefox 99.1.1 and Nightly.

    Same, desktop site toggle is in the three dots menu on the lower right corner

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  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    It's been nearly 24 hours, any kind of "somebody knows about this" response would be great.

  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    @Bogart

    Do you know who an admin is these days?

  • BogartBogart Streetwise Hercules Registered User, Moderator mod
    Geebs is the admin, as far as I know. As for who can actually fix this, I dunno.

  • DouglasDangerDouglasDanger PennsylvaniaRegistered User regular
    Bogart wrote: »
    Geebs is the admin, as far as I know. As for who can actually fix this, I dunno.

    @DJ Eebs

  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited April 2022
    I figure there's gotta be some other contact for the main site or all of the other hosted stuff.

    edit: Sent an email to their main contact address?

    Weaver on
  • AthenorAthenor Battle Hardened Optimist The Skies of HiigaraRegistered User regular
    Completely unbased on anything guess, but I suspect that there's some login piece or authentication that went to the old PA site, that was updated for the main forums but not for the mobile stylesheet. So now that it's been a couple weeks on the new PA site, they turned off the backend servers, and in the process broke whatever piece that the mobile forum was trying to fetch.

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  • akjakakjak Thera Spooky GymRegistered User regular
    +1 iOS Safari

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  • DixonDixon Screwed...possibly doomed CanadaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2022
    +1 iOS Safari

    yay desktop browsing and zooming all over the place

    Dixon on
  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    Yeah, I'm looking into it. I'm not entirely certain what's going on, but I'm digging into what I have access to and gathering your reports to see if there's something we need to report. FWIW I don't think it's browser specific.

  • AustinP0027AustinP0027 Registered User regular
    edited April 2022
    Just through brute force testing, any user-agent that contains mobile info in it (Android, iPhone, Blackberry) across all browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, MS Edge, Opera) breaks it.

    Strip out the content of the user agent that points to it being a phone and it all loads. So whatever it checking user agent to redirect to mobile site breaks things, but if it can't tell (e.g. custom user agent) or desktop is requested (PC, Tablets, or desktop mode from phone), it loads fine.

    I can't seem to tell the breaking point, as it's a straight 500 error, so from the browser side it doesn't even capture anything in the sign in process, just goes straight to error.

    Also, that error is specific to signing in/being signed in. If you aren't signed in, mobile page loads. Go to sign in page and attempt to log in, 500 error.

    Edit: More observations.

    Sign in actually works on mobile. Two tabs open, one desktop, one mobile user-agent. Sign out.
    If I sign in on the mobile page, it loads then 500s.
    But if I refresh the desktop tab, it shows me signed in.
    So it does complete the sign in process (including the cookies that designate account signed in, vf_pennyarcade_PMC cookies), something after that is where it's breaking.

    Not sure it means anything but on the desktop tab, it does write the cookies for activity (last activity, last visit, tracker) which it doesn't reach the step of writing those in the mobile browser.

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  • ForarForar #432 Toronto, Ontario, CanadaRegistered User regular
    +1 iOS Safari, in case we end up looking for folks to test something out or whatever.

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  • JuggernutJuggernut Registered User regular
    I don't understand anything about the internet or what makes the internet work but I am very bored and this appears to be a mystery so now I'm deeply invested in the investigation and outcome of this, the borked Forums.

  • Captain InertiaCaptain Inertia Registered User regular
    Well I finally saw an ad

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    Just through brute force testing, any user-agent that contains mobile info in it (Android, iPhone, Blackberry) across all browsers (Chrome, Firefox, Safari, MS Edge, Opera) breaks it.

    Strip out the content of the user agent that points to it being a phone and it all loads. So whatever it checking user agent to redirect to mobile site breaks things, but if it can't tell (e.g. custom user agent) or desktop is requested (PC, Tablets, or desktop mode from phone), it loads fine.

    I can't seem to tell the breaking point, as it's a straight 500 error, so from the browser side it doesn't even capture anything in the sign in process, just goes straight to error.

    Also, that error is specific to signing in/being signed in. If you aren't signed in, mobile page loads. Go to sign in page and attempt to log in, 500 error.

    Edit: More observations.

    Sign in actually works on mobile. Two tabs open, one desktop, one mobile user-agent. Sign out.
    If I sign in on the mobile page, it loads then 500s.
    But if I refresh the desktop tab, it shows me signed in.
    So it does complete the sign in process (including the cookies that designate account signed in, vf_pennyarcade_PMC cookies), something after that is where it's breaking.

    Not sure it means anything but on the desktop tab, it does write the cookies for activity (last activity, last visit, tracker) which it doesn't reach the step of writing those in the mobile browser.

    That's probably extremely useful information, thank you for digging into that.

    I'm in contact with Vanilla on this. I don't believe it's anything on our end, so just bear with me on this.

  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    Thank you!

  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    Whatever has happened so far, mobile seems to default to desktop view no matter if you try to switch the settings or not.

  • AustinP0027AustinP0027 Registered User regular
    Yeah, it looks like the Mobile redirect has been stripped out completely. So I'm guessing at the Vanilla level they've identified something wrong with it.

  • SteelhawkSteelhawk Registered User regular
    I just came report that I too just tried again on Chrome/Android and the page reloaded as the desktop site.

  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Yeah, mine just defaults to desktop now.

  • NEO|PhyteNEO|Phyte They follow the stars, bound together. Strands in a braid till the end.Registered User regular
    +1 for getting desktop version on phone, though it is making the post text readably big by default, if nothing else

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  • JazzJazz Registered User regular
    Defaulting to desktop mode here now too.

  • DJ EebsDJ Eebs Moderator, Administrator admin
    Yeah, I've sent a message out. It appears that there was a config problem somewhere, I'm not sure what's causing the current issue.

  • WeaverWeaver Who are you? What do you want?Registered User regular
    edited April 2022
    So if it's vendor side, hope they're in some kind of SLA violation at this point

    Weaver on
  • Dignified PauperDignified Pauper Registered User regular
    edited April 2022
    Same issue. I was able to use mobile without being logged in. As soon as I log in, I get the error. Now I'm defaulting to the desktop view on mobile.

    Pixel 6
    Chrome

    Both up-to-date

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  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Wonder how many people thought everything was down until now they're being forced into desktop mode and finding out

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