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Help mobile users get out of desktop mode easier
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With your cell phone, browse https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E8%8C%83%E9%9B%B2_(%E8%87%BA%E7%81%A3)

This should automatically switch to the mobile version but it doesn't.

Chrome on Android.

What, the user must dig way down to find the mobile view link at the bottom?

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As you can see, we did not request the desktop site.

Okay it must be due to some cookie. I must have months ago pushed the desktop view button at the bottom of some Wikipedia page or something.

So maybe that cookie should expire in one day!

Jidanni renamed this task from Detect mobile browser to Desktop / mobile choice cookie should expire in one day.May 25 2021, 10:08 PM

It might be very simple for the user to find the desktop view link on the mobile version, but much harder months later to figure out where such a link might be on the desktop version to switch back to mobile as it is much harder to find.

Anyway most important is to give the user a big button at the top that says switch back to mobile view. Because he certainly doesn't remember why his browser is in this weird state. And he has little chance of finding the magic cure way down to the bottom of the page where it says says mobile view.

Jidanni renamed this task from Desktop / mobile choice cookie should expire in one day to Help mobile users get out of desktop mode easier.May 26 2021, 4:30 AM

Yes, using an incognito window, the page loads fine, in Mobile mode of course. This proves that reason why my browser is in a weird state is that I must have swallowed a cookie due to some tampering I did earlier. Doesn't matter. What does matter is to help users get out of that desktop mode if they ever end up in it.

Aklapper edited projects, added MobileFrontend; removed Mobile.

It's unlikely that you users want to switch between desktop and mobile all of the time, and space at the top is limited.
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