# Changed Frontpage???
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-frontpage/87836
**Category:** About This Message Board
**Created:** [October 16, 2001, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-frontpage/87836 "2001-10-16T22:31:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 10
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### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2001, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-frontpage/87836/1 "2001-10-16T22:31:10Z")
OK, was the [Straight Dope Homepage](http://www.straightdope.com/) changed in the last week or so? It looks to me like the fonts and link colors changed. Am I insane, or was there a subtle change here?
Nevertheless it really is unsettling, it doesn’t feel like home anymore when I load up IE. Why, oh why, would you do this to me?
No sir, I don’t like it.
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### Author:  [@SPOOFE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SPOOFE)
#### Post date: [October 16, 2001, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-frontpage/87836/2 "2001-10-16T23:59:38Z")
Looks the same to me…
Here’s a possible solution/explanation: Does your mouse have a scroll wheel? If so, perhaps you were using it one day while accidently pressing CTRL at the same time. This will result in the text size changing (depending on which direction you were moving the wheel). You can fix it by clicking on View -\> Text Size -\> Normal.
Although your description of changed colors would mean that there’s a different problem at play, here.
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### Author:  [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2001, 1:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-frontpage/87836/3 "2001-10-17T01:01:34Z")
mr. omniscient, does it appear a strange light blue to you? i was a bit afraid to mention it myself.
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### Author:  [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2001, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-frontpage/87836/4 "2001-10-17T01:18:04Z")
Eh, looks the same to me as it always did.
IE 5.5, Windows ME, ISP is MSN.
What I wanna know is, who keeps moving my monitor lizards? I’ve got two Beanie keychain lizards who live on my monitor and they keep going somewhere.
Well?
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### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2001, 3:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-frontpage/87836/5 "2001-10-17T15:54:58Z")
Well, the main thing is that it seems the link colors are different, the vlinks are a lighter shade of purple now. Also all the gifs as you scroll down the screen are broken. I font style and size seems the same.
I’m sure i’m not imagining it. I hope a mod or admin can confirm.
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### Author:  [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2001, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-frontpage/87836/6 "2001-10-17T16:24:56Z")
Hmmm, it has appeared a bit different to me, too, for the past couple days. Only not in any of the ways you guys mention. The difference I see is the background color. It has gone from white to a kinda pukish-tan. Set these colors to see what I mean Red=194, Green=191, Blue=165. Bleah.
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### Author:  [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)
#### Post date: [October 17, 2001, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-frontpage/87836/7 "2001-10-17T20:49:16Z")
I’m looking at it, and I sorta think I recall the vlink’s being green and not purple on the homepage. Anyone else?
Odd.
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### Author:  [@jcgmoi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jcgmoi)
#### Post date: [October 18, 2001, 10:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-frontpage/87836/8 "2001-10-18T22:39:31Z")
Just checking in to verify **UncleBeer’s** observation. I thought of the color as a ditch-water beige, although when the light is right I can see some pukish-tan too.
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### Author:  [@Myrnalene](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Myrnalene)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2001, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-frontpage/87836/9 "2001-10-19T00:28:11Z")
> [@](#):
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> \*Originally posted by rocking chair \*
> \*\*mr. omniscient, does it appear a strange light blue to you? i was a bit afraid to mention it myself. \*\*
It looks a sad shade of blue with a whiff of green for me.
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### Author:  [@Fern\_Forest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fern_Forest)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2001, 8:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/changed-frontpage/87836/10 "2001-10-19T20:20:27Z")
Something must have changed in the programming of the front page that no longer forced it’s preferences over ours. Before it has always been bright white, like in the SS pictures but now my preferences have finally taken over and it’s a nice grey, just a tad lighter then the grey I’m typing on right now.
Thank you whoever made that switch, my eyes thank you too.