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From: David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk>
Newsgroups: comp.mobile.android
Subject: Re: Slashdot on Samsung browser
Date: Tue, 20 May 2025 19:50:11 +0100
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In message <100ind2.knc.1@ID-201911.user.individual.net>
          Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote:

>David Higton <dave@davehigton.me.uk> wrote:
>> Can some of you with access to a Samsung browser please try
>> https://slashdot.org on a Samsung browser and some other browsers?
>> 
>> I use a Samsung S24 and a Galaxy Tab.  Until a few weeks ago, the
>> Samsung browsers used to render Slashdot like other browsers do.
>> Something changed; I don't know whether it's a Samsung browser update
>> or a site update, but it looks radically differnet now - and rather
>> harder to read, with tiny text.  Pinch to zoom allows the text to be
>> magnified, of course, but then the page has to be scrolled sideways
>> to read entire lines of text.
>> 
>> I'd just like to know why it is like it is.  A solution would be
>> even better!
>
>  Looks fine to me, both in (Samsung) 'Internet' and (Google) Chrome.
>
>  Note however that <https://slashdot.org> is redirected to the mobile
>site <https://m.slashdot.org>.

Aha - that's it, thank you, Frank.  For some reason my devices had
switched over to the mobile site.  Once they're back to non-mobile,
I can read the site on my mobiles.

Something's fundamentally wrong there, isn't it?

David