Senegoid:
Srsly, —
There are still a variety of residual buggies in the new skin, some of which seem just obnoxious enough that TPTB really ought to be dealing with it. But it does appear that TPTB have indeed given up on doing any more bug-fixing with the new skin, and they are not even doing us the courtesy of, at the minimum, responding to these complaints to tell us so.
These are the remaining bugs that I’m aware of that seem significant:
[ul][li] As per the topic of this thread, code tags don’t work.[/li][li] Also, spoiler tags within quote tags don’t work. The spoiler box is always shown open, and the “Show/Hide” button is inoperative.[/li][li] I’m still seeing banner ads after every fifth post. They are “dead” in the sense that there’s nothing active or clickable in them.[/li][li] The “New Thread” and “Reply” buttons are still totally invisible in some environments (e.g., mine). I can live with this because I know where they are located and I can still click on them, but it’s still a poor show.[/li][li] ETA: That business about sigs being displayed by default too.[/ul][/li]Any other non-trivial bugs anyone wants to mention?
I propose to expand this thread to become a compendium of still-outstanding and non-trivial bugs in the new skin, the OP’s complaint included, in the hope that TPTB will at the very least have the temerity to respond, even if only to say “screw it, we’re through with this”. To that end, I am reporting this post to force it to the mods’ attention.
Reported (soon-to-be).
/s/Senegoid
The last word I know of from TPTB was this comment , in the old “Major Bugs in SDMB re-skin fixed ” (:rolleyes:) thread.
We haven’t given up, but it’s fair to say fixing the remaining problems with the SultanTheme skin has taken a lower priority while we take care of other issues. One such issue is getting the ads working. I realize no one is enthusiastic about ads but they’re how we keep the lights on. We hope to get the necessary code loaded on the beta site during the week of 10/16 and will invite your feedback when we do. Thanks.
So, fixing the new skin is a low-ish priority. There was supposed to be a beta test of more fixes this week? I haven’t seen an announcement. Maybe the ads have been more intractable than anticipated. :mad: