You should be able to go to the bottom of the forum page, and there are three blocks for “Display Options”. One of them has “From The” and the drop down box lets you select how far back it looks. Should be on either skin.
As for the code problem, I posted at the skin creator’s page and hefixed it.
I think it’s much better now.
Most of the really annoying stuff in the new look has been fixed, but I still find the older look to be slightly preferable. Thanks for setting up the option!!
The refresh worked! Yay!
You can also set the option in your UserCP to display older threads by default.
UserCP > Edit Options > Thread Display Options > Default Thread Age Cut Off > Show all threads
It looks fine, but how do I post a new thread? It seemed to have disappeared just recently, both at home and work.
OK - just found it by clicking on tools. Seems odd to hide something so basic.
The one really noticeable difference is still that issue with the search function. In the old style, you can select a whole slew of time ranges to search agains, but in the new style, you can search in time intervals of 1 year or less, but the only way to search for longer time intervals is to search “all”. If we’re so concerned about resources being tied up in searches, that would seem like an obvious thing to fix.
At the top of every forum page should be a big blue “Post New Thread” button.
New theme? Depending on browser, it may not be so blue. Specifically, it may be a white button on a white background labeled with white text. Probably with white 3d shadows and white highlights.
The button is there, in the place it’s always been. You’ll just have to poke around until it triggers. Or click-and-drag to highlight it, in which case (in my browser, IE6) it shows up as pale blue text on a while button on a white background etc.
Yeah, that’s apparently what I’ve got. Moved my cursor around up there and where the box SHOULD be, the arrow turned into a finger. Stupid shit like this really throws me off. Make one of the most basic functions more confusing for the low-level user. :smack:
Guess it is no worse than an all black ship with black controls… 
So how do I make the default setting set so my signature is not on by default? If I want to use I know how to do it, but I usually don’t.
it’s already set as off by the admins. You only have to check the box to show it.
It’s still displaying a banner ad after every fifth post. This was noted way back in the early days of this skin, by me and others too.
There is no checkbox for it in my profile, like there used to be.
The only way right now seems to be to use the old style. The new style still has it on by default, unless you use my Userscript.
Or, at least, that’s how it’s working for me.
Just below the Reply box under Addition Options.
To the right and below the Quick Reply box.
Not in Quick Reply.
Though I’m fond of being a world authority on some such nonsense, I am sick of bragging about it. I’m from Minnesota. It’s unseemly and I wish to turn the stupid option off by default. While I appreciate BigT’s efforts, at some point the SDMB paid for this software (we did, right?) and I expect proper support 20 years later, dammit!
It does feel like, once the old theme was added back, Ed decided to deprioritize any changes, including the ones we’d already agreed upon. As far as I can tell, there have been no changes on the test site at all since then, not even the really simple ones.
Like I said, dropzone: just switch back to the old theme. Set it as your default, and ignore the new theme until they actually work on it again.
Or use my addon. I’ve made some more changes, and even made it a lot faster on older computers!
I didn’t mind it, but I’ve gone back to the old skin now that I know it’s there. Stay off my lawn!