What happened to the site - Site shows mobile view (Internet Explorer)

[Brutacus]

What has happened tot he site? There is no logo, no search feature, and it's almost impossible to navigate. In the top right hand corner there is a Letter V, then the word Bulletin. On the right there is a calculator that does nothing, and a magnifying glass that does nothing. What is going on?

 

[Evil Dr. Porkchop]

Are you browsing on a phone? Sounds like the mobile site. If it is scroll to the very bottom and click "full site".

 

[Brutacus]

Are you browsing on a phone? Sounds like the mobile site. If it is scroll to the very bottom and click "full site".

No, I'm on my PC at the house, and only half the links are working. When I try the full site link, It says page cannot be found, 404.

 

[patracy]

I'd suggest clearing cookies or try a different browser. You've got something going on with your browser. The other view you're talking about is the mobile site, very very stripped down for cell phones. (Or you can use tapatalk) You might have some other malware on your computer as well with the 404 errors. If it was the security system, you'd get 503 errors on EVERY page.

 

[Brutacus]

I'm going to run a full virus and malware scan and shutdown for the night. Hopefully it's something simple.

 

[Augdog1964]

What happened to the site? Is it just me?

Did Steel Soldiers just change? All I see now is Vbulletin and a totally different look to the site... which IMHO is not good!

 

[marchplumber]

Someone else had similar problem recently.......

mine is still the same as always.....

Think they said you might have gone to the "mobile" site..............I'm computer illiterate, so that's the best I can do for ya, sorry.

 

[swbradley1]

Just you Dave.

Still looks the same.

 

[TrailLifeBill]

I think MarchPlumber is on track with this one... look around and see if you see a link that says something like "Full Site" and see if that doesn't fix it.

 

[natrgatr]

It looks completely different in Internet Explorer, but normal in Chrome for me. Microsoft must have made a change in the Browser.

 

[NormB]

I get that sometimes on my iPad or iPhone. Not always. try to find a setting in your browser or OS for "mobile" site and change it.

 

[TrailLifeBill]

I have IE 11.0.38, and it looks the same as it does in Firefox. A couple weeks ago, I did end up in a weird looking version after doing searches for key words. In retrospect, it probably was a mobile version because there was a link to full version that got me back to "normal".

 

[natrgatr]

I took TrailLifeBill's advice and found the Full Site link at the bottom of the page (in Internet Explorer). It made the site appear normal again, but when I went to post a reply, it wouldn't let me type in the reply box. Weird.

 

[patracy]

It looks completely different in Internet Explorer, but normal in Chrome for me. Microsoft must have made a change in the Browser.

I'm guessing that's the case. To switch back from the mobile view, just scroll to the bottom of the page and click "Full Site". I'm guessing IE is screwing around with their browser and "trying" to make things more cross-platform friendly by having some sort of mobile view incorporated into their desktop browser.



And my personal thoughts on the matter....

 

[patracy]

Looks like there's something with IE11 that isn't just limited to our site. Here's a work around mentioned for IE.

1. Navigate to the website that isn't displaying properly.
2. In Internet Explorer (desktop), tap and hold on the bar at the top (or right click).
3. Tap on "Menu bar" so it's highlighted and there is a tick by it. A menu with File, Edit, View, Favourites, Tools and Help should appear.
4. Go to tools and open "Compatibility View Settings". "Add this website" should have the domain of the site you've visited already filled, so click "Add".
5. Close the windows then refresh the website that wasn't displaying properly. It should hopefully now display as it should.

 

[patracy]

Went ahead and merged the two threads together.

 

[Augdog1964]

Didn't think I was nuts... funny thing for me is I'm on Firefox and a MacBook Pro 17"

 

[patracy]

That's strange. Course I don't have a mac (I do have a hackintosh though, I'll go log onto the site with it in a bit to check). I use FF exclusively with no issues. Did reverting back to the full site link resolve it for you Dave?

 

[frank8003]

The denial of service attack is on your equipment methinks
You are being redirected, or a rootkit or timed out trojan or whatever.
I call them farticles

AVG is free
works good

 

[Augdog1964]

Yep it fixed it...