# Vincent theme not working? **URL:** \ **Category:** Site Feedback\ **Created:** [February 9, 2023, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vincent-theme-not-working/979546 "2023-02-09T21:57:45Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2023, 9:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vincent-theme-not-working/979546/1 "2023-02-09T21:57:45Z")
When I came to the forums today, my theme had changed. I had Vincent but now it’s the Dark theme. I tried changing the theme and then selecting Vincent again but it defaults back to Dark. I restarted my laptop but that didn’t help. I logged out and back in. Still the same. Anyone else having this problem? (I just saw that someone else posted about this. I didn’t see that when I started my post.) ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2023, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vincent-theme-not-working/979546/2 "2023-02-09T21:44:33Z")
ok i wasnt here much yesterday and apparently my board theme changed from the green and black one to all black … did it get removed ? ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2023, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vincent-theme-not-working/979546/3 "2023-02-09T22:02:03Z")
Do you think your theme was called Vincent? That would match up to @aurora_maire? I just switched to Vincent and it is white font on black now as a test. I just need a little more info before I bumped this up to Ed Zotti. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vincent-theme-not-working/979546/4 "2023-02-09T22:07:21Z")
yeah thats what it was … i thought ya took it out or something lol ---
**Author:** ![gnoitall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/bb73d2/32.png) [@gnoitall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gnoitall)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2023, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vincent-theme-not-working/979546/5 "2023-02-09T22:07:41Z")
I tried it as well, as an experiment. It looks like Straight Dope Dark with rounded poster icons and lots of unused vertical space (in mobile browser). I can’t remember precisely what Vincent looked like before, but I’m fairly certain it wasn’t that. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2023, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vincent-theme-not-working/979546/6 "2023-02-09T22:12:28Z")
We don’t mess with the Themes. That is done by Discourse staff. Sometimes things slip in their updates, but I’m not seeing an update since Jan 25, so I’m not sure what is happening. It is a Discourse issue though and not anyone’s hardware at least. I Emailed Ed as he is the funnel that stuff like this goes through for Discourse. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2023, 10:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vincent-theme-not-working/979546/7 "2023-02-09T22:19:22Z")
Thanks. It’s very disconcerting. I don’t like changes in my environment. 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2023, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vincent-theme-not-working/979546/8 "2023-02-10T00:55:37Z")
I’m another Vincent user and the whole thing is a mess. The fonts are bigger, the banner is gone, replaced with just a space, the formatting… not good at all. I switched to Straight Dope Dark and it’s different but also very similar. Not an improvement. I hope they can put this to rights! ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2023, 1:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vincent-theme-not-working/979546/9 "2023-02-10T01:00:51Z")
I could have told you, Vincent, this board was never meant for one as beautiful as you. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2023, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vincent-theme-not-working/979546/10 "2023-02-10T01:03:05Z")
Same thing happened to me. I initially assumed I accidentally used a private window and I wasn’t logged in. @codinghorror ETA, also, I don’t like it. Did it get narrower? I feel like there’s more space on the left. ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2023, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vincent-theme-not-working/979546/11 "2023-02-10T01:18:06Z")
> [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I could have told you, Vincent, this board was never meant for one as beautiful as you. Vincent has been the theme I’ve used since we started here. It always seems to be the black sheep of the group. It’s has bugs, it breaks more often, it doesn’t have some of the features the other themes have. It wasn’t until this site that I knew that website skins are more than just different color palettes. At least here, different skins cause the site to behave differently. In addition to what @Aspenglow glow mentioned. I’m also seeing a big gap between the bottom of the text within a post and the bottom of the post itself. On my screen there’s a space about an inch high there. Also, the quote button shows up in entirely the wrong place, about 6 lines below what you’re trying to quote. And white text on a black background in a white outlined rectangle on a page with white text on a black background isn’t helpful. Here’s what I’m seeing. Notice what I highlighted and where the quote button is, as well as their respective color schemes. [![](https://i.imgur.com/sCPnvC1.png) ](https://i.imgur.com/sCPnvC1.png) (Testing, did they at least fix the bug with Vincent where anything in “bold” is actually slightly less bold and, in fact, unless someone says ‘my bolding’, it usually goes unnoticed. **This sentence should be bold.** ) ETA, yes, they did, it actually looks bolded ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2023, 1:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vincent-theme-not-working/979546/12 "2023-02-10T01:22:57Z")
Sorry, Chonos, I just needed to experiment with quoting something from another thread. Partial quote: > [@Musical Notation: How Do I Make Superscript, Flats and Sharps (symbols) In Discourse?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-notation-how-do-i-make-superscript-flats-and-sharps-symbols-in-discourse/979075/3): > > but I would imagine that they’re in Unicode somewhere Full quote: > [@Musical Notation: How Do I Make Superscript, Flats and Sharps (symbols) In Discourse?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-notation-how-do-i-make-superscript-flats-and-sharps-symbols-in-discourse/979075/3): > > You can do superscripts using the and tags. > > I don’t know specifically about the sharp and flat symbols, but I would imagine that they’re in Unicode somewhere, so if you do get them (possibly by copying and pasting from somewhere else), they should show up on any remotely modern web browser. Full quote (with just a link to the post) > [@Musical Notation: How Do I Make Superscript, Flats and Sharps (symbols) In Discourse?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/musical-notation-how-do-i-make-superscript-flats-and-sharps-symbols-in-discourse/979075/3): > > You can do superscripts using the \ and \ tags. I don’t know specifically about the sharp and flat symbols, but I would imagine that they’re in Unicode somewhere, so if you do get them (possibly by copying and pasting from somewhere else), they should show up on any remotely modern web browser. ETA, looks like quotes from other threads still only give us an avatar and not the username (not even when hovering). What’s odd is that in the preview it gives only the username. No avatar, no link to the other thread, nothing. Also, I noticed that if you click on the avatar, it expands the partial quote to a full quote, similar to clicking on the up arrow on a quote. Was that always a thing and I never noticed it? ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2023, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vincent-theme-not-working/979546/13 "2023-02-10T01:54:13Z")
It’s back and working fine for me again!! Thank you so much to @codinghorror!! ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2023, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vincent-theme-not-working/979546/14 "2023-02-10T02:26:42Z")
Yup, fine for me too. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2023, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vincent-theme-not-working/979546/15 "2023-02-10T02:45:39Z")
Yay! Thanks for the quick repair. > [@Thudlow\_Boink](#): > > I could have told you, Vincent, this board was never meant for one as beautiful as you. Well, at least the theme didn’t kill itself. This time. 🌃 ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2023, 6:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vincent-theme-not-working/979546/16 "2023-02-12T06:43:51Z")
yay it’s back and i didn’t know it yet lol