Dear webmasters:

If I am given a link to an article or specific page on your site, and following it redirects me to the main mobile page because I view it on my phone and you don't have a mobile view of that link, you have failed. Because I can't find the f***ing thing I was trying to read. I would have been more than happy to view it in the non-mobile view (ecstatic, in fact), but now I don't have it at all. And I remember your site.

I am looking at you, OMSI. I am looking at you, CBS News. You suck. You are not alone. You are just the two I've most recently encountered. (OMSI is a thorn in my side, as I follow them on Twitter. I need to un-follow them, since they can't be arsed to tweet links I can follow on my phone, which is the MAIN place I USE Twitter. OMSI is a great museum, but their web/Twitter presence just frustrates me.)

If you have a mobile view of your site, either for all pages, or just for certain pages, provide me the ability to EASILY get out and STAY OUT of it. Because you know what? With very few exceptions, your mobile views are butt ugly, childish things that don't give me what I want. My iPhone renders regular web pages just fine - if the web masters don't preempt it and redirect me to some cartoonish page with a few enormous buttons.

The ONLY excuse for a forced-mobile view is if you've programmed your entire site in something most mobiles can't render, and even then there should be a way out. If you've programmed your whole site in Flash such that I have to pick between the mobile view or nothing, though, I still think you're idiots and I'm still disgusted - and I still won't continue to waste my time on your site once I discover it.