My Facebook was redirected months ago even if I request desktop it still sends me to m.facebook. Now You: can you access messages on Facebook, or are you redirected to Messenger as well? Facebook has a vetted interest in getting users to use all of their products, and this is likely what is happening right now. I don't want to use Facebook Messenger on my mobile, and I don't want to use the Messenger site (even if f it would work). Maybe there are others who face the same issue, who dislike the change, and maybe there is someone who knows a solution to the issue. It is possible that this is a bug, or that the Messenger site is overloaded. I still did not see them on, but when I started to reply to some and got replies, these started to appear on the Messenger site. I made the decision to check the Facebook Messenger app on Android installed it, signed-in, and there were the new messages.

I knew that I received a few private messages but these were not shown on the Messenger website.

Opening and signing in added another issue to the overall experience: I could not see the new messages that users were sending me. Others suggested to access the various mobile sites on Facebook, but these had the messenger component removed apparently. Users suggested to select 'use desktop site' in that case, but this was no option in my case as the desktop site was already loaded. A research on the Internet showed similar issues, but these were posted years ago when Facebook started to redirect the messages part of its mobile sites to the Messenger site. A sign-out and sign-in, and the use of a different browser, were fruitless as well. I could not find an option to do so, not in the settings or anywhere else.

Maybe it will resolve itself as well after a while? Please leave a comment if that is the case for you. It took roughly a week for them, but there are still others that still experience the redirection issue. Update: Facebook has reverted the redirection on my systems.

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