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There are now 2 versions of the site: Desktop and Mobile versions.
When you visit forum with a normal computer (or some large screen tablets), you'll get desktop version which is the normal skin you were always getting.
If you visit the forum with a mobile device with a smaller screen (iphone, android phone etc.), mobile version will load, and site appearance will fit to your screen so that you don't need to scroll right or left to read. If you still prefer desktop version even if you are in mobile, you can do that in one of these ways:
1- Open your mobile browser menu and click "request for destop version". Most mobile browsers have such an option and if you click it, normal desktop version will load for you even if you are on mobile.
2- Scroll bottom of the page, find section that says "All times are GMT xxx. The time now is xxxx." and at the end of that line you'll see a link for "DESKTOP VERSION", click on it, and desktop version will load for you.
Mobile version is lighter on graphics etc so that it can fit to your screen. So it misses some features desktop version has (eg. user avatars are not displayed in posts, image attachments require clicking to open etc.). This has to be that way because mobile screens are small and we need to omit some info for these screens to display them in a readable format.
Likewise some sections are repositioned as mobile screens can't have "columns" which scoll the page to left. For instance ads on the left, is now in the bottom of every page.
This is basically how mobile skins work. You prevent users to scroll left-right in their phones in their small sceens, you place content from top to bottom so that scrolling only occurs vertically.
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