If you’ve never commented from your mobile phone, you’ll never be able to switch to the mobile site. The work-around is to leave a comment. You can use this thread to do so. After you leave a comment, WordPress sets a cookie on your phone and then you can see the mobile site. The issue is something to do with an interaction between caching and the mobile site.
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ekppp
Kos would get that looked at.
MikeJ
Shorter mistermix: FYWP!
Linnaeus
Okay, here’s my comment.
annem
Ok, here’s a comment
Jacob
I have no comment. I just want a cookie.
jay
Yes
Prof. Poirot
Comment.
ericblair
This is a test of the Emergency Bullshit System. If this had been real Bullshit, you would have been informed.
ericblair
This is a test of the Emergency Bullshit System. If this had been real Bullshit, you would have been informed.
WaterGirl
Looking forward to using the new mobile site!
Edit: I’m curious — so we have to comment on this thread through our mobile device, right?
Maude
There’s been a comment moderation problem.
I had 2 moderated in the Levin post and others have had the same prob in newer than Levin posts.
If this keeps up and we all come out of mod at once, it’ll look like a prison break.
MsSKWEsq
Worked for me! Thank you…
Art
Here’s my comment, and a link to an unintentionally hilarious Palin Anthem:
Sarah Palin Battle Hymn
geg6
I haven’t had a problem with loading in the mobile site. But what has been a problem for me on it is that I can’t seem to reply to others’ comments (no linkys to do it) and I have to type in my email address every time I comment. I do not use the email function on my phone I just type in my regular email), so perhaps that’s the problem? Never had this problem unless I had to reboot my phone, in which case I had to type in my name and email.
MikeJ
Firefox uses the mobile version on my droid. The default nook browser doesn’t even show this post, even after multiple refreshes.
WaterGirl
Okay, so how did leaving a comment on this thread from my mac laptop miraculously make the mobile site appear on my iPhone? (obligatory FYWP for not letting me edit my comment within the allotted comment period!)
Edit: I LOVE the mobile site! How do you reload a page to refresh comments on an iPhone?
MikeJ
Also, in Firefox mobile when I get the mobile version and then click the “use the desktop version” link I get an error msg: “The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded.”
Nate
Testing
mistermix
@WaterGirl: I have no clue.
@MikeJ: Reload the site. It should just be a javascript URL that sets a cookie value, but it’s fucked up somehow.
Karen in GA
“Unintentionally hilarious”? You mean somebody was actually serious in writing something like that? (I’m at work and can’t listen to it. This might be a good thing.)
shadow's mom
Wow, magic! Actually added my comment to abl’s canine post, but on,submit magically I am in mobile mode.
WaterGirl
@watergirl, never mind, I see the reload symbol. duh!
Edit: but how do you reply to a particular comment from the mobile site?
Rhoda
Thanks for the trick.
thomas
derp
Rosalita
Me too!
upyernoz
cookie me, baby!
13th Generation
A Comment.
elmertfudd
Test
Gremcat
Stupid question – how do I know if I am on the mobile site.
mikej droidyoirlookingfor
gimme
Replicnt6
FYWP
Smith Wigglesworth
I pray, dear Lord… Heal my faulty eye to this blog so that I may yet see your truth in its glory. Amen!
mikej droidyoirlookingfor
still no mobile site even after posting. but msybe cookie didn’t set properly when i was sent to moderation.
Walker
I guess I have commented from the phone in the past. But the mobile site looks great!
EdTheRed
Also, too.
Thomas
FYI: the “Switch to our mobile site” link is bad. I got the mobile site after leaving the comment, but it went back to the regular site when I returned to the Balloon Juice homepage, so I clicked the mobile site link and got a nav error. The hyperlink looks all kinds of wrong when you look at the target URL.
Sidhra
Tricksy mobile site!
Maria
Here’s my comment.
Rosalita
Hey indeedy, pretty slick. BB is slow tho. Can’t wait to upgrade.
Delurker
Fywp. I for one support our new mobile overlords.
wyliecoat
My phone only makes and receives calls. I don’t have a smart phone because then all I would be doing would be refreshing this site all day. It’s bad enough I have a computer at hand 20 hours of the day..don’t need it for the remaining 4.
g-rant
Comment
Matt
Here’s a comment. It’s a beaut.
ReS
ttttttttttttt
scarshapedstar
Hmm? Never had any such problem; running Dolphin HD on my Droid Incredible.
Now if Fuhrer Jobs decided in his infinite wisdom that WP should not work on the Jesus Phone, well, what else is new…
Thomas
@Thomas: Seems to be working on my phone, now. Odd, since the mobile site link just dumped me into a nav error. Best not to question, I suppose.
stephM
Comment.
WaterGirl
Help, now I have lost the mobile site on my iPhone again. And now I know what everyone has meant about all the comments being squished together!
edit: now back again after leaving this comment.
demkat620
So, if I have commented from my blackberry, I’m good right?
Edmund dantes
Stupid Patriots!!!
Watergirl
Comment
Been lurking
A comment
lurker
Check check
Watergirl
Bj remembers my s teen name but not my email address. True for everyone else too?
WaterGirl
@demkat620: Not sure how it works, but commenting from your computer also makes the mobile site show up. Voodoo!
platosearwax
mmmmm…cookie.
Sentient Puddle
I feel like I should make a more substantial comment than something like “comment for my iPad.”
…
Fuck you.
Mnemosyne
I’ve commented from my iPod Touch before, but when I first navigated to the B-J site on it, it showed me the regular site, not the mobile one. The problem was magically fixed once I actually clicked into a thread and the mobile site seems to be working fine for me.
Elf
Moar wingnut crazy, please?
TC
Test
Mnemosyne
Test? My email did vanish from the mobile site, so we’ll see if it sticks after this.
xaneroxane
Commenting…
Davebo
Done
To comply with our balloon juice overlords
WTF
NJDave
Test
Stephani
Test
Flocking101
‘allo.
WaterGirl
test
elmertfudd
I think I like the desktop site on the mobile better. The switch to desktop button didn’t work so I had to clear the cache and cookies to get it back. Oh, well.
Bob Munck
I h8 typing on my ipod
Sarah in Brooklyn
Hi!
Sarah in Brooklyn
Hi!
Brachiator
Commenting, also too.
Lolis
I feel dirty after reading the Darth Cheney interview up at Huff Po.
Kevin
This ain’t so. (The fix, that is.) The mobile version would not render on my iPhone early this morning, now it does, and I have not commented in the interim (nor am I commenting from the phone now).
I did notice this AM that the link for the mobile version (in the left sidebar) was wrong — did not actually point to BJ in fact, so something else was broken then fixed since then.
Ellie
Mobile comment.
daveX99
Me want cookie.
Calimatt
Comment
yet another jeff
Actual mobile site…it looks all different and mobile-y…nice.
Easa dara
Mobile
will
I think I’ve commented from my phone before, but what the hell.
Cat Lady
Cookie me baybee!
Soylent Green
Forty two.
andrew
Comment
JusyPeachyAndYou
A comment so I can see the mobile version, which I hope will still show photos of Tunch et al.& rescued pets.
Phil in Portland
Cookie please
Dre
Ah
cybrestrike
I comment, therefore I am
sstrickl
C Is for cookie, that’s good enough for me
andrewsomething
Woot. Mobile ftw.
rsr
okay, I’ll try it…
lurk lurk lurk
Back to lurking… on my phone!
Cookie
Coooookie!
dollared
Me three
pandora
okay…
David Brooks (not that one)
Does it work with a Windows Phone?
Dee Loralei IPhone
I love the utter sincerity of the Pallin Anthem! Since DougJ,etc. Is the BJ music editor, he needs to review it. Pronto! My fab line is about how she’s smart enough to walk through doors, one assumes they are opened first.
Oh, and according to the song , it’ll be a cold day in hell before she gets to DC!
That thread would be full of BJ win!
I typed a bunch of shit for a damned cookie (shrug)
Steve
Go Falcons!
Maeby
Mmmm, cookie….
David Brooks (not that one)
It works but doesn’t preserve the email address.
planetjanet
Mobile site not completely loading on my Sprint smartphone now. I tried leaving a comment from the phone, but can not click in the name box to enter my name. Maybe this comment from my desktop will help??
Zam
Comment
Dee Loralei
My IPhone says my comment is@ 91, but awaiting moderation. But it doesn’t show up on my desktop either. Oh well.
vheidi
Great !
Wiesman
Lol wut
neal peart
Geddy, Alex and I approve of the changes
Mr. Glue
Lurker. Comment. Disappear.
neal peart
Test
Chat Noir (iPhone)
Comment for the cookie.
tara
Nothing to see here, move along.
Phyllis
I’m getting the comments in bold on my magic phoning machine. Not complaining-they’re much easier to read.
Foxes
Here’s my digital x.
xian
sounds like a clever forced delurking trick
Garbo
Curious what will happen from an iPad. Am I a device or am I a computer?
Radon Chong
Nothing to read here, move along.
helio gomez
mobile, one, two, three…
jah
Mobile activate!
Alan
Testing …
Hg
Dot dot dot
Keith
Comment comment
bwana
Coooooookie…
Steve Quinn
Test comment.
DavidEaston
Send cookie, Cookie.
derelict dog
Blerggh
Test
Test! Mobile yes!
IronyAbounds
What is the advantage of the mobile site?
SiubhanDuinne
I hate hate HATE the mobile version now. This is really bad news for me, because I read BJ and post comments almost exclusively from the BlackBerry. I hope some day to be able to establish myself with a proper computer, but at the moment this is what I have, and the changes just don’t work for me. Here’s some of what I’ve noticed since yesterday:
One, it’s impossible to read the pale yellow type against the pale blue background (front-page poster’s name and everyone’s time/date stamp).
B — there’s now no way to go directly from the main post to the reply box. There used to be the word Respond at the end of each FP comment, alongside the tags, which when clicked would take you directly to the reply comment window. It’s gone now in both desktop and mobile versions and means having to scroll through however many comments. Not too horrible on a desktop but murder on the thumb with the Berry.
3. The mobile version no longer remembers my email address, and it’s a long one and means every single time I want to comment I have to type in the email addy each time. It’s okay on the regular desktop computer.
IV: And in a genuine WTF moment, on the mobile version (only) none of the comments is numbered! What gives with that? So not only can I NOT click a Reply to individual comments (which I’ve never been able to do anyhow from the BB) but now I can’t even address a comment to, say, arguingwithsignposts #43 or jeffreyw #28 or asiangrrlMN #143 or whatever, because I no longer know what their post numbers are! And as mentioned in (One) above, identifying the comments by timestamp is almost impossible thanks to the yellow-on-white/pale blue type.
All of this means that I will be mostly lurking from here on out rather than commenting. No great loss to any of you, but I will miss the interaction. (This is not a GBCW by any means; just an explanation for why you probably won’t see much of me for a while.)
Sorry if I sound cranky, and I know I do, but it’s been a horrible pissy day at work and effectively losing Balloon Juice makes me very sad.
And I know a lot of people worked very hard on the upgrades, and I know a lot of genuine problems got fixed, and I’m glad for that. Hope very much to be back amongst you before too long.
Thanks for letting me rant.
Mike Kay
“Mr. Watson, come here — I want to see you”
Terry
Comment
Comrade Mary
I was told there would be cookies.
::looks hopeful::
Optional
Comment
SIA
How do I clear cache on BlackBerry?
Nethead Jay (Android)
Checking in from Android.
Joseph Nobles
OK, the thread itself went mobile version before I commented, but the front page remained normal. I checked before posting. So hopefully this comment will get me out of Limbo.
Calliope
Also, too.
Brian S (formerly Incertus)
Testes testes, 123
Gordon Schumway
Ich bin ein Berliner.
M Wilson
mobile fix
teedub
Cookies
Laura W.
Blah.
gbear
This is not an upgrade.
Mike Furlan
I can haz cookie?
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: I have comment numbers on the mobile site from my iPhone. Completely agree that it’s a pain in the butt that the mobile site doesn’t remember my email address, but mistermix has been really good about (nicely) moving the mobile site along, so I bet he will try to get the email address thing resolved asap. I know it’s been a hard day, but don’t give up just yet! :-)
Oh, and your voice would be sorely missed if you weren’t regularly posting.
Admiral_Komack
It works, laddie.
Christopher
Commenting to get things to work…
SIA
@SiubhanDuinne:I had all the same thoughts yesterday trying to use my brand new BB. Laura W sent me a msg about mini opera browser. I’ll find the link and email to you. Also I am getting the reply arrow which I never got on my BB Pearl. Don’t give up. Have to go out in a bit but will get back to you.
daryljfontaine
Mo’ bull from my mobile.
D
UlyssesUnbound
Cookies cookies cookies; cookies are for me.
Lurkin
Mmmmmm, cookies.
here4tehbeer
Mobile Cookie pinging
L Boom
Comment for mobile cookies.
Michael
Testing.
BrYanS
Cocks!!!!!
Keith
Hopefully, that means the new site fixed the last one’s issue with not allowing text entry into the name/email boxes (on WinPho7). Too much goddamn javascript is my guess (even using script to fix layout, jaw-off-the-floor)
BrYanS
Cocks!!!!
Breth
Comment.
SIA
When I refresh comments it’s closing comments completely.
B
You probably should have ponied up the cash and hired an experienced professional web developer. Sometimes you need to move on from who you used before. Just sayin.
Catpause
Cookies! Om, nom nom nom!
jeffreyw
Nook
Jill
Phone #1
leinie
Comment
Weaselswords
Thanks for the tip mistermix
jeffreyw
When does the mobile site kick in?
jakethesnake
Comments, as well as mobile sites, are the ghey, in my opinion. So are, commas, but that’s another story, for another time, not for today, or tomorrow.
RosiesDad
Comment
And Another Thing...
ok
PS
Comment!
SiubhanDuinne
@WaterGirl:
@SIA:
Thank you both. Makes me feel loved :-)
Because my BB is employer-issued and linked to my work desktop, I may be limited as to what fixes are possible for me (although I’m more than willing to give them a try and of course to wait and see what further BJ tweaks are in the works).
Sigh. I suppose I should just go ahead and buy myself a computer and mobile/PDA/laptop/iPad/whatever toys — I’ve just had these provided for so long by my employer, they are pretty much all I know at this point.
For instance, I’m currently commenting from my desktop at the office. We have IE (and only IE) as a browser. I’m pretty sure I’m not permitted Firefox or Chrome or Opera.
Okay, thanks again. I feel a bit more cheerful now.
Nicole
Commenting!
Uh… Eclipse Awards tonight. We’ll see if Zenyatta’s team pulls a Shakespeare In Love.
Jill
Looks great on an iPhone and a Blackberry.
Jeanne
Cookie please. Love the site, so sleek.
Steve Graham
Beep.
BostonChuck
Need this on iPhone!!
abo gato
Here’s mine!
harokin
Wolverines!
I mean, cookies!
SKI
C is for Cookie!
Bumper
Test
Fraud Guy
The testing of Pelham 1-2-3
jShifty
C is for comment
Judas Escargot
Leaving a pointless comment. Snazzy new HTC Shift arrived today. Farewell, Palm Pre, we hardly knew Ye.
flakk
Thanks balloon juice staff. My eye doctor well be pleased.
Shadow's Mom
@geg6: No, I do use the email function on my phone and I have add the email every time too.
1628
Lurked reporting for duty!
Montysano
OK then
Jim Clark
Comment.
something fabulous
well if nothing else this is an exercise in forcing me to a) admit the internet on my first new smrtphone Sux and b) try to use it anyway….
GuanoFaucet
Comment.
Dino
comment
Jorge
Mobile site look pweeeedy! Me likey!
shadow's mom
My Sprint Android hero does not remember it is to go to mobile nor my email; however, autocomplete gives me email after 2 chars so that’s a win. I mostly comment from pc and followed via rss feed on phone.
I can scroll thru and see comment number
Shadow's Mom
and to complete that thought, which I accidentally submitted too quickly. I can see comment numbers from mobile, but no Reply link. Mobile site looks good (better than the RSS feed and I can see comments). It will be nice when my phone browser remembers to load me as mobile.
This second comment is from my laptop; first was from my phone.
penstemon
Crossing fingers
dino
I am an idiot
milo
hello world
EIGRP
Meh.
Addie Pray
I have a ham radio.
Evap
Tasting, one, two
TEL
Comment (again)
MPLurker
I just lurk, but I want a cookie. ;)
glynor
Posting a comment from my phone.
Scout211
Testing
Paul M
Test
Scout211
Test message in moderation? Heh, it figures.
jeffreyw
Booger
Phydeaux
Comment
Martin
Comment
Edit: Shit, I still have a 7 year old cell phone. I was hoping the comment would transform it into a shiny new iPhone 4.
Darkrose
i can has mobul site?
Timtp
Yo
Douche Baggins
Commento ergo sum.
jilli
test
Kay
Comment
Chad N Freude
OK.
Petesmom
Comment?
Lawnguylander
I FREAKIN’ LOVE THE FREAKIN’ JETS!
Chad N Freude
Hey! It woiks!
jeffreyw
Yay! I gotcha now!
fraught
common
Binky
Biscoito
Peter
Comment.
And Another Thing…
Ok this
The Humanity
Comment
Bbg
Tset
Neighborhood_threat
Thanks 4 fix.
mcd410x
Yes!
Francis
Test
flukebucket
Why not
Steve
Comment
we can be heroes
Check
Mr the thing
Blah blah blah
Socratic_Me
I can has cookie?
CJ
This is a comment.
Sarah Palin Happy Face
Also too.
Neutron Flux
Comment
Ed in NJ
Cookie, please
ASuperheroNamedTony
I want my cookie.
SIA
I can only see the second digit of the comment number. Also have to enter email every time.
Profit
Kludge
elle
Elle est jolie de rien – Carolina
Nname
Comment
OC
I was told there would be punch and pie.
JeanneB
Heard about the pie.
tv guy
I can has cookie ?
Brooks Benson
Mobile site cookie, please.
Testies
Testing, testies, 123.
N
Ok
folkbum
Obligatory comment. Oddly, the site looks like shit on my Mac but awesome on my iPhone. Huh.
Davey
Comment = cookie
kate mcardle
I can haz mobile
Peter
Hmmmmm
Bark
Woof
Tony Alva
Mobile is really a nice addition. Thanks for the hard work.
Kelly
Cookie test
TX Expat
Cookie please!
Frank
Calling Republicans assholes is violence.
anderj
Here’s to infinite wisdom and commenting powers!
Beth in VA
…hold this thread while I wall away…
Halteclere
Comment
pragmatism
Green balloons
Danny
Test
O Possum
Comment
D18
There’s a mobile site?
A Ghost To Most
Do you see me rabbit?
EagleAZ4
Comment. Damn that vast right wing conspiracy!
charlierbrown
My comment for mobiliness.
Shabbazz
Testes…1…2…3?!?!
commish
Comment for mobile
Dixon
Mobility
cvcobb01
Been years since I commented. Back when I was a democrat and John wasn’t, I think.
Chrischris
Comment.
RareSanity
grumble, bitch, moan…
RareSanity
It worked.
I’ll be damned.
droog
Let’s do this!
JosephAZ
Testing
cintibud
Present
Jamobey
Yo.
Juan IL
Testing
KBBoston
Comment to enable mobile.
Klingon2
Mobile
Cris
How does this w
Msut
Ftw
may
me want cookie
Texasmike
K
Jack
Cookie cookie cookie
Bob
Hwark.
Bjrubble
Cookie
Ralph
Cookies?
Philly
Comment
Me
No comment
my name here
Comment
Shane in Utah
Hello
Roger the Cabin Boy
C is for cookie
It good enough for me
rickles58
Random comment.
querlvox
Comment!
canuckistani
Sample comment
Mark Centz
Some things are better unimproved.
unimaginative
coockies
doodle
Cookie
Cjdavis
Fywp
Phil P.
.
Fonder Remus
Coooooookie
Vowel
One comment posted.
tazcorky
cookie please!
protected static
A phone-comment it is, then…
DougJ DougJson
Mobile site.
Neil Hudelson
Testes
Nik
.
Jj
Comment
elisathon
Setting mobile cookies