Accidentally went to responsive site on Safari, can’t get back to the legacy site.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Hi,

I accidentally clicked on the Responsive Site link whilst browsing on Safari the other day. I clicked Legacy Site but it won’t bring me back. I’ve logged out and logged back and also tried it whilst logged out but nothing worked. I’m using the legacy site on Chrome now but I prefer Safari.

Is there a fix for this? Thanks.

Kenny Logins

Clear cookies?

OldMrBrennan83

Same for me on Chrome on mobile. The site will switch to desktop mode from touch by itself and then when I go to 'followed threads' it switches to responsive and I can't get out of it.

OldMrBrennan83

The legacy Site link seems to link to nothing.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Kenny Logins wrote: »

Clear cookies?

Will give that a go.

Boards.ie: Mark

Would certainly recommend clearing your cache. If you continue to have issues you may have to clear site data and find anything related to Boards.ie. If opening Boards in an incognito window works as you would expect it too, it is a caching issue.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

OldMrBrennan83 wrote: »

The legacy Site link seems to link to nothing.

Yeah, if you hold on the link, this is what appears:

Boards.ie: Mark

Have alerted the development team to the issue so it should get looked into next week.

Went onto Responsive Site myself and did indeed get locked onto it. But the good news is that clearing browsing data (this is Google Chrome, but the theory should carry across) worked for me and I could access Legacy Site again.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Oh my god, it’s just randomly gone to the responsive site here on Chrome too! And again, won’t switch back! I don’t have a laptop, so this will be my last post until I can switch back to the legacy site. That’s not a threat or anything, it’s just the reality.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Oh, should say I don’t really want to clear my browsing data. So that could be a fix but I don’t want to do it. And I don't think I should have to really.

hullaballoo

On Chrome at least, you can clear browsing data etc. just for boards.ie. I had a similar experience recently and resolved it that way, although I did have to play around a bit having cleared the data to get back to the legacy site on all devices.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Bit the bullet and cleared the browsing date in Chrome, which worked.

Thanks, all.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Oh, can I just ask, will there be a fix for it? I’d love to start using the site on Safari again but I’m just not willing to sacrifice my lovely, lovely browsing history, there are so many handy prompts in it. It was easier to do so in Chrome because I barely use it.

Boards.ie: Niamh

One of the guys is looking into a fix for this at the moment ODB so we'll update here when we have a fix ready.

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Thank you so much, back to Legacy on Safari!

Donnielighto

Can't access touch, can't post and page stake three attempts to load. All other sites are fine.

Boards.ie: Mark

Hi there,

Are you getting a Not Found error after trying to go to the Responsive Site? Can you reload Boards, i.e. can you type touch.boards.ie into the address bar again and does that bring you to the site (it may be slow)? From there, you should be able to select Legacy Site in the footer.

Heighway61

Any word on this being fixed? I cannot clear cache for individual sites and don't want to lose settings for all sites.

Boards.ie: Mark

Hi Heighway61,

A fix has been rolled out and it should just be a matter of selecting Legacy Site from the footer.

Heighway61

Hi Mark,

If I type www.boards.ie into the address bar the URL changes to www.boards.ie/b/. When I click on Legacy Site the page doesn't change, just reloads. The Legacy Site link is a javascript link - location.reload();

If I type touch.boards.ie in the address bar the URL changes to www.boards.ie/b/

Thanks.

Boards.ie: Mark

Unfortunately, as it was a Javascript change, it is likely that a cache clear is required here. Sorry for the inconvenience.

If you use an incognito browsing window, are you able to switch between Responsive Site (my produce an error page initially, but will load) and the Legacy Site on touch.boards.ie?

Heighway61

Yes, incognito mode is fine.

Sorry, I shouldn't have to clear cache for all my web sites and won't be doing so. I will continue to use incognito mode which means we both lose out.

Boards.ie: Mark

Please try (Chrome) Settings -> Site Settings -> Tap 'All Sites' -> Search for boards.ie -> Clear & reset

Donnielighto

When I see what the hyperlink for legacy site is the link address is still about blocked

Donnielighto

Followed instructions, worked fine. Thanks mark

Boards.ie: Mark

Great, thanks