The new page format just appeared when I reloaded the "Updated Serials" page and I noticed the high-lighting on stories and authors you are reading is no longer there, which makes it a bit awkward unless you write down everything you read or have a much better memory than me. I'm hoping this is a glitch which will be remedied soon.
Has anybody else noticed this or is it just my computer having a hissy fit.
the high-lighting on stories and authors you are reading is no longer there
This sounds like you are referring to the browser highlighting of visited links, which will behave as you describe if you clear cookies for the site, or clear all cookies trying to fix a browser problem, or open the browser with a different profile (or use a different browser or computer, or even just leave the site unvisited for a while as the browser history expires in some configurable time, often 3 or 6 months).
If you have a premier membership, there is a history function available; if you are a basic member, your best be is to keep a text file of story URLs as you visit them, as the basic version of this premier function expires each day.
Mind you, I've just had the home page load in Modern Dark theme (just once while typing this, I always leave it on Classic), perhaps there's some work being done so I'd leave off making any changes for a few hours at least.
I lightened up the 'visited' links color.
Maybe you'll be able to see it now.
I set the default theme to the most recent one.
You can switch themes any time you wish:
https://storiesonline.net/sol-secure/user/my_account.php?cmd=listingFonts
Lazeez,
Your lightening change has fixed the problem - many thanks, now I don't have to rely on my (according to my wife) somewhat questionable memory.
I fixed the system to show the new theme only to new users. So you may be seeing whatever you had set before.
When I typed the address for SOL a few minutes ago, the screen seemed completely changed and very colourless. I guessed I had to click on 'account' to get to 'login'. When I entered my credentials, I was rewarded with the familiar home page.
Was that because my browser clears out cookies when I shut it down, and SOL thought I was a new user?
AJ
Was that because my browser clears out cookies when I shut it down, and SOL thought I was a new user?
No. Now the site shows the new style, which is almost monochrome to new users and not-logged in users.
You see the new style until you log in and then the site shows you your preferred theme.
I hopped over to StoryRoom and was greeted by an unexpected 'Modern Dark' theme. I switched it back to 'Modern Light'.
AJ
Same here.
I stay logged in (I don't clear cookies) but Storyroom and SciFi had switched to Modern Dark.
SOL stayed on Classic.
I've just noticed a Classic theme change under (Author Name): Favourites.
On clicking 'More Details' I get a
green/black icon for bookmark
down arrow in a box
then bullet points for Zip, TXT, EPUB and Kindle, all formatted as white text on a green background.
All on separate lines. A visited button is browser default link text colour.
The down arrow doesn't seem to do anything, and is there whether or not it's been read or downloaded.
An Authors' page shows the buttons as normal (Bookmark, Zip, EPUB in my case).
I've just noticed a Classic theme change under (Author Name): Favourites.
The classic theme has not been touched in years.
Maybe it's a cache adjustment glitch, one them overwrote the other in the cache.
If you can send me a screenshot, I would be able to tell what's going on.
My email is [email protected].
So I have switched back to the classic theme 3 times now.
Ive never logged in or out.
It sticks for a while but the next day when I come back it has switched me back to the dark modern.
I don't hate the modern theme but dark mode makes long form reading significantly more difficult.
Not sure why it keeps changing. Only logged in on the one device.
Give me the lie - this morning SciFi and SR switched back to Dark theme. SOL stayed on Classic.
Give me the lie - this morning SciFi and SR switched back to Dark theme. SOL stayed on Classic.
When you go to the theme switching page, what theme image shows 'Current Selection' with an outline and a shadow?
All 3 show the theme that is displayed
SOL - Classic
SciFi - Modern Dark
SR - Modern Dark
I switched SciFi to classic and browsed around a bit and it stayed.
I fired up my Linux PC which currently has Firefox 146 ( I know - still out of date).
Logged in to SOL - Classic.
Opened SR by pasting the url and logged in - got the pale theme. Hit My Account and it changed to Modern Dark despite being set to Classic on the other machine..
Followed the home page link to SciFi (logged in automatically) - Modern Dark.
Reverted to the original PC and refreshed SciFi - it was changed to Modern Dark.
I've also noticed that Advanced Search by Content has similar download links to the Favourites, but it's just undelined text, without background colour.
I think this may be cookie related.
In usual browser I set SciFi to Classic, then looked at Linux - Modern Dark (checked settings).
Usual browser - refresh page - Classic. Checked settings - Classic.
Refreshed the home page tab on both machines - the difference remains.
So I'm logged in on two machines and different settings are shown.
Perhaps (somehow) Modern overrides Classic, but Classic does not override Modern?
Strange that (for me at least) SOL is not affect by the theme switching.
Updated to add: -
Five minutes later, having closed the Linux browser, I refreshed SciFi home page on my usual machine and it changed to Modern Dark.
It's weird.
If it was failing to load your selected theme, it should load the default, which is the 2025 theme.
But it's falling back onto the old id number of the classic theme.
When I made the update, I couldn't have a theme number of zero anymore, so I bumped all of them up by 1, so modern with auto-dark went from 0 to 1, and classic went from 4 to 5, modern dark became 4.
There is no place in the code that it perform any calculation on the theme number, so not possible to have a bug there.
I'm suspecting a caching issue with cloudflare. I added extra code for caching.
If you see the wrong page, please view the page's source code and look in the header for a section like this:
< script>
var totis = '13pt';
var tstamp = new Date(1791874671000);
var thname = 'n2025';
var uit = '62961';
< /script>
I need the two lines:
var thname = 'n2025';
var uit = '62961';
For you it should be:
var thname = 'classic';
var uit = '(some other number)';
I reworked the theme loading code to account for almost anything. I can't replicate any of the bugs, but I'm taking guesses and fixing would could cause such hypothetical bugs.
Please, keep reporting any visual/behavioral bugs you encounter.