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Slickdeals Classic not working on mobile browser anymore

780 307 September 22, 2025 at 04:38 PM
For some reason today Slickdeals will not load the classic interface on my mobile browsers (tested with Firefox and Brave).

I am logged in, and scroll to the bottom of the page and click the "Classic" option but it just stays on "Redesign". One work around I found is to request desktop mode, but that has to be done every time I load the site.

Is this affecting anyone else or just me? Was this an official design change that just happened today?
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alphacow
09-22-2025 at 08:23 PM.
09-22-2025 at 08:23 PM.
I'm seeing this too. Hopefully it's fixed as I won't use the new site.
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Peopo
09-22-2025 at 08:43 PM.
09-22-2025 at 08:43 PM.
Same here. For me, the forums still have the basic text format, but the home page is bulky and full of images. That's unusable for me, so I guess my wallet will thank me later! But really I'd like that basic html function back. (bookmarks don't fix it for me like they have in the past)
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Arkus
09-22-2025 at 08:54 PM.
09-22-2025 at 08:54 PM.
Was logged out of every device today and I logged back in and then immediately switched my view back to basic HTML using the saved link below.
https://slickdeals.net/styleSwitch.php?redirectUrl=%252F&basichtml=1
Unfortunately, the Home link is not in basic HTML view for some reason.

I keep my devices way longer than most, greatly prefer and appreciate the basic HTML view.

Thank you for looking into this.

EDIT: My post is *not* about classic view, and was incorrectly moved to this existing thread. I am specifically writing about HTML view.
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BruceW
09-23-2025 at 02:36 AM.
09-23-2025 at 02:36 AM.
Cannot get this to work on my iPhone and tried every browser. It done it last week when upgrading to iOS 26 and I was able to get it back to basic, but this morning it won't at all
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dealz04
09-23-2025 at 05:24 AM.
09-23-2025 at 05:24 AM.
Same for me. I only want to see classic view. Please add it back! I don't like the mobile view.
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Kithkin
09-23-2025 at 06:37 AM.
09-23-2025 at 06:37 AM.
Also forced into classic on iOS 26. Which looks bad but also doesn't seem to be functioning correctly. On the popular tab, deals load in one at a time and I still see the popular deals preview. And the deals that do load in don't match the deals in the preview list. They seem more like ads than deals.
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09-23-2025 at 09:29 AM.
09-23-2025 at 09:29 AM.
Quote from tbone16 :
For some reason today Slickdeals will not load the classic interface on my mobile browsers (tested with Firefox and Brave).

I am logged in, and scroll to the bottom of the page and click the "Classic" option but it just stays on "Redesign". One work around I found is to request desktop mode, but that has to be done every time I load the site.

Is this affecting anyone else or just me? Was this an official design change that just happened today?
Quote from alphacow :
I'm seeing this too. Hopefully it's fixed as I won't use the new site.
Quote from Peopo :
Same here. For me, the forums still have the basic text format, but the home page is bulky and full of images. That's unusable for me, so I guess my wallet will thank me later! But really I'd like that basic html function back. (bookmarks don't fix it for me like they have in the past)
Quote from Arkus :
Was logged out of every device today and I logged back in and then immediately switched my view back to basic HTML using the saved link below.
https://slickdeals.net/styleSwitch.php?redirectUrl=%252F&basichtml=1
Unfortunately, the Home link is not in basic HTML view for some reason.

I keep my devices way longer than most, greatly prefer and appreciate the basic HTML view.

Thank you for looking into this.
Quote from dealz04 :
Same for me. I only want to see classic view. Please add it back! I don't like the mobile view.
Quote from BruceW :
Cannot get this to work on my iPhone and tried every browser. It done it last week when upgrading to iOS 26 and I was able to get it back to basic, but this morning it won't at all
Quote from Kithkin :
Also forced into classic on iOS 26. Which looks bad but also doesn't seem to be functioning correctly. On the popular tab, deals load in one at a time and I still see the popular deals preview. And the deals that do load in don't match the deals in the preview list. They seem more like ads than deals.
Hi all -

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. This was not an intentional change. The team is actively looking into this issue, and we hope to have an update to share later today.

I apologize for any inconvenience caused by this issue.
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dougmod
09-23-2025 at 09:59 AM.
09-23-2025 at 09:59 AM.
Same here. So much worse to use the redesign. Can't scan through the site like used to. Hopefully they fix it.
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tbone16
09-23-2025 at 10:56 AM.
09-23-2025 at 10:56 AM.
Quote from emceep :
Hi all -

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. This was not an intentional change. The team is actively looking into this issue, and we hope to have an update to share later today.

I apologize for any inconvenience caused by this issue.
Thanks for looking into it!
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09-24-2025 at 02:11 PM.
09-24-2025 at 02:11 PM.
Update:
The team has been working on this issue and the fix should hopefully go out by Friday.

We'll post another update once this issue has been fixed.
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09-24-2025 at 02:19 PM.
09-24-2025 at 02:19 PM.
Quote from emceep :
Update:
The team has been working on this issue and the fix should hopefully go out by Friday.

We'll post another update once this issue has been fixed.
Awesome. Thanks for the update!
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09-24-2025 at 03:33 PM.
09-24-2025 at 03:33 PM.
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Update:
The team was able to release the fix today, and both Classic and Basic HTML views should now be working correctly. Please let us know if you encounter any further issues with this.

Thank you for your patience as we worked through this, we really appreciate it.
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09-24-2025 at 04:40 PM.
09-24-2025 at 04:40 PM.
Quote from emceep :
Update:
The team was able to release the fix today, and both Classic and Basic HTML views should now be working correctly. Please let us know if you encounter any further issues with this.

Thank you for your patience as we worked through this, we really appreciate it.
Classic works for me again. Thanks!
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dougmod
09-25-2025 at 03:50 PM.
09-25-2025 at 03:50 PM.
Quote from emceep :
Update:
The team was able to release the fix today, and both Classic and Basic HTML views should now be working correctly. Please let us know if you encounter any further issues with this.

Thank you for your patience as we worked through this, we really appreciate it.
when i try to open a deal on the homepage with classic, the formatting is all messed up. Borders are missing.
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