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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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emceep | Staff
09-25-2025 at 04:08 PM.
09-25-2025 at 04:08 PM.
Quote from dougmod :
when i try to open a deal on the homepage with classic, the formatting is all messed up. Borders are missing.
I just checked and it looks ok for me. Can you please try clearing your cookies/cache to see if that helps?
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tbone16
09-25-2025 at 04:17 PM.
09-25-2025 at 04:17 PM.
Quote from dougmod :
when i try to open a deal on the homepage with classic, the formatting is all messed up. Borders are missing.
Looks okay to me on android Firefox.
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Arkus
09-25-2025 at 11:18 PM.
09-25-2025 at 11:18 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.
Basic HTML view is not working yet for the just the main page as I originally reported. Just tried from multiple devices, some that hadn't viewed slickdeals.net in many weeks, so it's not a caching situation.
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BruceW
09-26-2025 at 02:26 AM.
09-26-2025 at 02:26 AM.
It's not going to a basic HTML page for me either and I have tried on three different devices. These forums and the hot deals, but when I click Home it goes to standard with pictures.
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dougmod
09-26-2025 at 10:56 AM.
09-26-2025 at 10:56 AM.
Quote from emceep :
I just checked and it looks ok for me. Can you please try clearing your cookies/cache to see if that helps?
just tried and no change
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alphacow
09-27-2025 at 11:23 AM.
09-27-2025 at 11:23 AM.
It's now been flipping back to the new style. Clicking classic sometimes works and usually can with enough clicks at least for a while. Both on mobile and desktop. Did try clearing cache and cookies which didn't help.
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Irrelevance
10-01-2025 at 02:53 AM.
10-01-2025 at 02:53 AM.
I just want to echo the concerns of the OP. Despite a SD staff comment further below stating that this has been fixed, on two separate machines I am locked into the "Redesign" layout. Any suggestions on how to fix this is greatly appreciated, since the Redesign layout is not at all preferred.
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10-01-2025 at 05:18 AM.
10-01-2025 at 05:18 AM.
Quote from Irrelevance :
I just want to echo the concerns of the OP. Despite a SD staff comment further below stating that this has been fixed, on two separate machines I am locked into the "Redesign" layout. Any suggestions on how to fix this is greatly appreciated, since the Redesign layout is not at all preferred.
If you have ablock / VPN turn it off try again ( you can turn it back on after) i had this happen before
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Irrelevance
10-01-2025 at 06:53 AM.
10-01-2025 at 06:53 AM.
Quote from SpaceCallahan :
If you have ablock / VPN turn it off try again ( you can turn it back on after) i had this happen before
Thank you for the suggestion. To update, I have tried again with all extensions/VPN disabled but with no luck. Also tried logging in using a new browser that I've never before used for SlickDeals and experienced the same result. I currently see no way to return to the classic view. The links at the bottom of the page for both "Redesign" and "Classic" both just result in the "Redesign" layout. The result is the same on two different Windows 10 machines, and on mobile with "desktop layout" enabled so the issue is not isolated. The sooner this is fixed, the sooner I can again enjoy using SD. Thank you again.
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10-01-2025 at 08:38 AM.
10-01-2025 at 08:38 AM.
Quote from Irrelevance :
Thank you for the suggestion. To update, I have tried again with all extensions/VPN disabled but with no luck. Also tried logging in using a new browser that I've never before used for SlickDeals and experienced the same result. I currently see no way to return to the classic view. The links at the bottom of the page for both "Redesign" and "Classic" both just result in the "Redesign" layout. The result is the same on two different Windows 10 machines, and on mobile with "desktop layout" enabled so the issue is not isolated. The sooner this is fixed, the sooner I can again enjoy using SD. Thank you again.
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