[lambda_lover]

Don't worry: they've been slowly hobbling the mobile site to make the application more and more attractive. iirc you can't even message on the normal (non-basic) mobile site any more: it just shows a splash screen requesting that you download messenger. And of course their site uses screen dimensions and user agents to decide to force you onto mobile even if you request desktop.

[jleedev]

Javascript-free mobile site that lets you send messages: https://d.facebook.com

[petepete]

It's worse than that. Even if you check the "Desktop site" box on Chrome for Android, every time you type a word in the messenger box and press space, it's deleted.

You have to go a long way to make anything that bad, it can't be accidental.

[bradlys]

You can still get to it via normal means. You don't have to use the desktop site. What you do is go to facebook.com, check the "desktop site" option in the browser... page refreshes, you're in "mobile view" still (m.facebook.com), click messages icon.... now you're able to message people just fine. Works fine for me. I use Brave (which is not much different than Chrome on Android).

It's a clumsy experience but it works.

[lostgame]

A nice hack around that is using their GSM site.

[gagege]

You can if you use Opera Mini, for some reason.