# Major bugs in SDMB re-skin fixed. What do you think? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [September 6, 2017, 6:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663 "2017-09-06T18:32:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![GIGObuster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gigobuster/32/421_2.png) [@GIGObuster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GIGObuster)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663/181 "2017-09-08T18:47:21Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Which brings me to my 7th complaint: Some of the icons (especially the ‘Subscribed’ indicater) have become super-faint and hard-to-see. > > I confess: I _can_ see the faint icons when I squint, and my total lost time due to this problem may be only ten seconds per day, or even less. > But it is annoying and … _ **Why?** _ Was someone begging for fainter hard-to-see icons? At least you have faint icons, right now on my Android phone the site does not show the time of the last reply, nor the last poster making the reply or the faint “last post” icon. It works on the tablet but then I told the tablet to report to all sites that the tablet is a desktop not a mobile device. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663/182 "2017-09-08T19:29:22Z")
No major issues, looks OK to me, thanks for fixing. ---
**Author:** ![Snowboarder\_Bo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/snowboarder_bo/32/229_2.png) [@Snowboarder\_Bo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snowboarder_Bo)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663/183 "2017-09-08T19:37:05Z")
Is the huge Reply button at the top of each page necessary? I mean, it’s at the top of the page… presumably I can’t yet have seen anything to reply to, because that huge button is the first thing on each page. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 8:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663/184 "2017-09-08T20:01:25Z")
> [@Snowboarder\_Bo](#): > > Is the huge Reply button at the top of each page necessary? Or anywhere else for that matter? That thing is about four times the size it ought to be. ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 8:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663/185 "2017-09-08T20:05:39Z")
I really dislike the new look, and especially the new font. Ugh. ---
**Author:** ![Sunny\_Daze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunny_daze/32/438_2.png) [@Sunny\_Daze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunny_Daze)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663/186 "2017-09-08T20:23:39Z")
Polling seems to be broken now. I just tried to vote and it didn’t record. I also tried to click on the link to see results, and no results were recorded at all, despite the fact that several people had replied in the thread. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663/187 "2017-09-08T21:06:18Z")
> [@Ed\_Zotti](#): > > I’m starting a new thread because many of the problems reported in earlier threads reflected formatting problems we believe we have now resolved. Take a look and let us know what you think. Okay, I’m still seeing a lot of problems. What has actually been fixed? ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663/188 "2017-09-08T21:11:15Z")
Admittedly I just skimmed this long thread, but I don’t see the list of moderators for each forum at the bottom of each page. Now, that isn’t something I look for regularly, so that may have been eliminated in the past, but it is useful. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663/189 "2017-09-08T21:28:58Z")
> [@Debillw3](#): > > Or, here’s a crazy idea: instead of working to fix issues caused by a broken skin that was foisted on all of us to fix problems that a lot of us didn’t have, we just go back to an unbroken skin. I would definitely expect those in charge to have a sunk cost fallacy. They paid for this skin. They won’t want to give up on it. They clearly already spent a ton of time trying to fix it up before launching, since the test site’s been up since Charter Member renewal time. **Crazyhorse** ’s option to enable the skin selector and let people switch back is a good one, though. Make this new one the default (so it will work on mobile) but everyone else can switch back to the old one. That way the new stuff doesn’t go to waste, but people can use the old one. If the new one gets fixed up to where people would rather use it, then great! If not, then, oh well. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663/190 "2017-09-08T21:31:47Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > There are no dates for subscribed threads in my control panel on my Android phone, but everything else is dated including my desktop, using Firefox. > > Is this what you’re referring to? I’m seeing them in Chrome on my laptop, but when I posted earlier (from a different machine - a desktop PC, not a phone), I was not seeing any post dates - I guess maybe I was getting served up the mobile template for some reason. ---
**Author:** ![Ed\_Zotti](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@Ed\_Zotti](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ed_Zotti)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663/191 "2017-09-08T22:05:12Z")
The colors are configurable, as are some features. I’ll see if I can get my guys to match the old colors, for starters - I acknowledge the blue bar is jarring. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663/192 "2017-09-08T22:19:17Z")
> [@Ed\_Zotti](#): > > The colors are configurable, as are some features. I’ll see if I can get my guys to match the old colors, for starters - I acknowledge the blue bar is jarring. Not horrible, but yeah, it could be better. ---
**Author:** ![drad\_dog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/aeb1de/32.png) [@drad\_dog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drad_dog)\ **Post date:** [September 8, 2017, 11:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663/193 "2017-09-08T23:11:04Z")
Everybody OK with speaking boldly all the time. If you do it too much it stops being bold. Like it just did. Is there an explanation of what the changes made were? I’m busting my brain trying to figure out why this new thing is so annoying. For one thing: look at page of one of the forums. It is not inviting, or readable. it looks like it wants to waste your time and intellect. Very difficult to read small letters in such a big space. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663/194 "2017-09-09T02:39:48Z")
Is it intended that when you click on “The Straight Dope” in the upper left corner, it now takes you to the front page of the MB, not to the main Straight Dope webpage? ---
**Author:** ![Irishman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/b487fb/32.png) [@Irishman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Irishman)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663/195 "2017-09-09T04:00:02Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > ? There are dates on posts on my screen. (Desktop, Windows 10, Firefox) You’re looking at different things. He’s referring to the forum lists, not the thread postings themselves. ---
**Author:** ![kayT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayt/32/3633_2.png) [@kayT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayT)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 12:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663/196 "2017-09-09T12:17:49Z")
There are dates on those on my screen as well. ---
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663/197 "2017-09-09T15:15:28Z")
> [@kayT](#): > > There are dates on those on my screen as well. Not on mine. There is no way to tell when a thread was posted. Using an iPhone. IMO that and the blue bars should be the first bugs taken care of. What were the problems that this version “fixed”? I’ve never had issues with reading the site before (other than the ad redirects.) ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663/198 "2017-09-09T16:38:05Z")
> [@Ed\_Zotti](#): > > The colors are configurable, as are some features. I’ll see if I can get my guys to match the old colors, for starters - I acknowledge the blue bar is jarring. Thanks for those changes. The gray fades into the background as it should. Removing most of the text from the quote buttons also removes a major distraction. ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663/199 "2017-09-09T16:52:35Z")
Is there any way to get rid of the up arrow and drop down box? This is very distracting not so much the box, but the arrow. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 9, 2017, 4:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663/200 "2017-09-09T16:56:26Z")
> [@Exapno\_Mapcase](#): > > Thanks for those changes. The gray fades into the background as it should. Removing most of the text from the quote buttons also removes a major distraction. Wait…are you seeing changes? Still looks the same to me when I turn off **BigT** ’s fixer-upper. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/major-bugs-in-sdmb-re-skin-fixed-what-do-you-think/795663.md?page=11)