The My Library page now has a bright yellow background in the chapter column when a story has new unread content. This used to be a soothing green. The yellow is a bit jarring considering it's supposed to be a dark theme. Can it be toned down a bit please?
The actual main reading pages look to be fine still and that's where I spend most of the time.
On the active serials page, the notes column now has an army green highlight color. I'm not sure if that's what you toned the chapter column on the All Bookmarks and Reading Queue page to or not, but clearing my browser's cache and pulling down the pages hasn't helped, it's still bright yellow on those pages for me. Maybe it used to be even brighter?
No obvious changes until I got to the Comments. Where they used to be ~1/3 of the page wide, now there is just a few-pixel-wide border and it's nearly full page. A bit jarring and the text seems to run right up to the border, which makes it a bit harder to read.
I do like the nice little list below the Post button that shows what HTML tags are allowed. If it works. That's new.
I made some changes. Please check. You'll have to reload the stylesheet. Usually pulling down the page makes it reload.
The yellow is better but still not great #460 looks much nicer to me than the #660 it is now.
Also the font size seemed jump with the new CSS (in setting it was showing 16, manualy setting it to 12 looked much better) maybe this was becasue I hadn't set a font size before?
What is the point of changing it anyway? The green was fine on the dark theme. Yellow usually means there is something iffy going on (which is what I initially thought).
On the All Bookmarks page, Chap column, the black text on army green background is hard to read. Can it be the same white text like the Upd. Notes column on Active Serials?
Except that there seems to be some new options at the bottom of story pages in a "This story is in your Library" box:
(Remove from Library, Remove From Queue, Edit Bookmark).
I'm not sure whether those are actually 'new' or I just ignored/didn't really notice them till now.
Anyhow, nothing major.
Also: Quibble: rolling the cursor over the message in the yellow alert box The message turns white (practically invisible, and disconcerting) even though when rolling over the "Hide" option at the other end, that option gets highlighted (much better).
Except that there seems to be some new options at the bottom of story pages in a "This story is in your Library" box:
(Remove from Library, Remove From Queue, Edit Bookmark).
I'm not sure whether those are actually 'new' or I just ignored/didn't really notice them till now.
Yeah, It has been there for a little while. I think it got redesigned a week or two ago.
When I'm reading a story, the column with the text appears even narrower to me. I've always favored a little wider than we had, but I can live with it. I don't remember the link to the previous and next chapter in the header before; that's a nice touch. However, it could've been there all along, but I just realized it.
My two abandoned stories are still glaring at me with angry, bright yellow. It reminds me I lost my way on them... Good work Laz!!!
Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1
Mozilla Firefox 115.27.0esr (64-bit)
Modern Dark
No visual issues or even noticeable changes in any screen I have went through as a reader, and as a writer. All checked after a computer reboot, then using Ctrl F5 to clear the page and force a reload. Looks great on my side.
Windows 10, desktop, chrome. Annoying yellow previously mentioned in the active serials page where I spend most of my time. If possible I would prefer an option for things to remain the same. Then again, I suppose progress moves on.
Had some more time to root around, and all of the links on the left of the homepage (ongoing serials, complete stories, older stories) open up full-width like the updated stories list.
5 When looking at links in the Top Lists, the lists take up the full width of the browser window (from memory it used to be the same width as the Home page stream) and it looks quite off-putting.
A border on either side about the width of the score column would be good (or the same width as the Home page stream again to make the look more consistent).
Such as "Recently Deleted Stories", we only see the date when a story was deleted. The entries also take up more vertical real-estate than before, I think it was one line per entry then and now we have a couple of blank lines between entries.
Mac and Safari here, but 'More' does what it's supposed to โ 10 stories matching my criteria. It's soooo much fun debugging inconsistent errors. Here's hoping it gets worked out for those having an issue.
O.K., currently Win 10 Pro {Version 22H2 for x64 (KB5065957)} and Firefox 142.0.1 and only thing I'm noting is a 'note' of "(has Book Ad)" next to the "More Info" link in the main page story discription otherwise no other changes for me.
Thanks, but I thought there was some option to choose the theme for the Home/library/etc display. That's at least what I gathered from Lazeez mention of selected themes when reporting bugs.
I thought there was some option to choose the theme for the Home/library/etc display.
The selected theme will be used for all of those. Unless you were thinking of some way to select different themes for each? Sorry, One theme to rule them all. :)
No, the issue seems to be the themes aren't applying 9 times out of 10. I did manage somehow to change it to the 2025 theme which made me realise the other times I tried to set the theme it simple didn't apply.
TCL phone, Android, chrome, all settings default except font size for ancient eyes.
No problems yet, just a couple of questions. FWDLIW, what's with the "not" symbol after the sender's name? And why the transparent green bar down the right side in Mail? A brief explanation of the symbols at the bottom of a message would be appreciated.
If I had any money to spare, I would send a kind thank you for all your hard work.
There's a lot messed up with the theme that may or may not be related to whatever update is happening. https://imgur.com/a/Uk4bn1r link to screenshots. Basically just a lot of unreadable parts of the site. Switching to Modern light, some of the pages remain unreadable. I had to restart FF to change.
For what it's worth, today I just saw there's a theme called "2025" that looked a lot like Minimalist but figured I'd give it a shot and see.
Firefox 142 Linux not sure what theme I'm using (or how to find out)
The top of the homepage (the header bar that starts with the logo) has a slightly different scaling on most elements to that used on other pages, which is annoying when switching between them. See animated gif at https://imgur.com/zgQUhTx
1. The column widths are less than ideal: the story titles are smushed, basically two words in width (so wrapping several lines) and the Info column is bloated with LOTS of padding around the โ and >> icons, making that column almost as wide as the Accessed column.
2. There's no border lines between rows of the Chap column, unlike the rest of the table.
The ratings for Plot and Technical Qualities are not bolded, but the Appeal to Reviewer is. Intentional? It looks odd, and I've always understood the three components are supposed to be given equal ranking.
Edit to add: the same one of three ratings bolded also is on the list my own reviews.
Linux, Firefox.
seems to be a problem setting the theme.
when clicking on a theme the screen will blink as if reloading, but not select the theme.
I did manage once to select the 2025 theme and back to Modern w/Auto-Dark-Mode somehow, but haven't been able to duplicate the feat or select any other themes
Win7 Pro, IE11. What I want to know is how to get the original screen layout back. Similar to the home page, where there is a centered grid with wide borders either side, rather than the current view which I cannot seem to change, where the grid is stretched over the entire width of the screen. Maybe it's just me, but I want to be able to see the entirety of the information presented like a document, rather than having to view it like a tennis match, i.e. virtually turning my head side to side.
5 - As it seems the main table extends the entire screen instead of just the center as on new_stories.php
Comparing the parsed HTML from new_stories and updated_stories it looks like it is missing
div="wrapper"
before
table id="head-t"
the closing div is at the end on both
I don't know if it's a bug or not, but I just noticed the absense of the "Click to load more text" link halfway through a page. The whole page loads now without interruption.
I've also just checked on Firefox 142.0.1 in a different story, and it's the same.
I don't know if it's a bug or not, but I just noticed the absense of the "Click to load more text" link halfway through a page. The whole page loads now without interruption.
5 When a thread has been selected, the posts expand to the full width of the browser window.
The date & time stamp are there, however the Reply, Report, Back to top and Private Message icons are all missing.
On other threads, the width stays the same as it was previously- ie the same as the main forum page & topic pages.
EDIT- that appears to have been fixed, although there is no border (thin solid vertical line) on the left or right of the posts.
So in Threaded view; posts indented on the left have no white space between the border and their indented position, so it looks rather odd.
And i noticed when i went to edit this post- the Edit and Delete post icons are missing, there is just a small underscore below where they should be (used the mouse over to find them).
EDIT- the border issue has been fixed. Thankyou.
Now just the missing Edit and Delete icons issue remains.
The underscores are also gone, and the icons are now larger than they were before the fix.
Also the text is now also slightly larger- i have now reduced the text size for listings back to what it was before all the changes, and i can still read the forum posts.
Since yesterday ie a further change after your initial set of changes, forum threads have a huge space for the title, borders are sometimes absent and the symbols at the bottom of each post (reply/abuse/top/PM) have been replaced by hyphens.
Firefox 52.9.0 ESR on Windows XP.
ETA: Edit and Delete show as hyphens a level above the other hyphens.
YESTERDAY, I had noticed no changes. TODAY, I noticed there is a difference on the forum pages. The forum seems the same, UNTIL I click on a specific topic. Then I notice that the fonts seem different, possibly smaller. The text seems more crowded. Don't really like it, but it won't kill me.
No changes in story fonts or anyplace else, just inside the forum topics
YESTERDAY, I had noticed no changes. TODAY, I noticed there is a difference on the forum pages. The forum seems the same, UNTIL I click on a specific topic. Then I notice that the fonts seem different, possibly smaller. The text seems more crowded. Don't really like it, but it won't kill me.
No changes in story fonts or anyplace else, just inside the forum topics
Additionally, there is no left margin AT ALL for the text. It really crowds against the left edge, almost to the point of a missing letter on every line.
I noticed a change in the text size over the site in general.
For some reason the forums are smaller than the other pages-
Setting the text size so that it's OK in the forums, makes everything else much bigger; setting the stories & listing pages so the text is a good size makes the forum text too small.
Both mechanisms you mentioned haven't been altered. Which means the non-stickiness of the theme and the non-hiding of the note, is not a bug on my end.
I suggest you reboot the iPad. Also, if you're using a private tab for the site, the 'Hide' link for the notifications won't work as it depends on a cookie and a private tab deletes the cookies.
For me, the links on the left side of the home page continue to open full-width.
In this thread, most if not all quoted text appears as a blacked-out bar, but if you attempt to copy inside the black the intended text is then highlighted. Also, all options inside a post (reply, etc) do not show the expected icons, only small dashes bottom-right of the post. Moving cursor over the dash brings up the expected icon.
edit - When viewing already-read posts they are greyed-out as usual, and then the icons lower-right show up as white-outlined.
Mac, Safari, Classic theme (I never changed the theme so I think that's what it's called)..
URL of the page I'm commenting on: https://storiesonline.net/library/my.php
When I go to My Library, there seems to be a column added to the left with links. I don't remember that being there, at least not in its current format. The reason I believe that is I no longer see all the columns of data. I have to scroll to the right to see the Score and Info columns (I actually see part of the Score column).
When I go to My Library, there seems to be a column added to the left with links. I don't remember that being there, at least not in its current format. The reason I believe that is I no longer see all the columns of data. I have to scroll to the right to see the Score and Info columns (I actually see part of the Score column).
The left column has always been there. It was really stuck to the edge of the page. Now it's slightly offset.
I changed the spacing in the library to restore a tighter layout.
Yeah, now that it's narrower and I see all the columns on the screen with your latest changes I realize it was always there. But my mind never saw it because I didn't use it on the My Library page. It just stuck out when it became wider.
Your latest changes are good (including the paler yellow in the Chap column).
I don't know what P (Program) and R (Rating) are, and now that they are one letter each I won't even remember that they're Program and Rating. Since they're only one letter, would a mouseover be helpful?
1 - System: Windows11
2 - Browser: Edge
3 - The theme: Dark
4 - Page url: All story Reader Comments(checked 5, all the same) Sample: https://storiesonline.net/n/49977/forever-yours-by-aroslav/10
5 - Description: While the rest of the site is in dark mode, the Reader Comments section remains stubbornly Black text on White background.
Description: While the rest of the site is in dark mode, the Reader Comments section remains stubbornly Black text on White background.
Stories use a different formatting mechanism than the rest of the site. It's highly configurable. Depending on which style you create, the system will try to figure out if it's dark text on light background or the reverse and will try to use a dark mode theme for the comments if it's light text on dark background.
1. Windows 10 Pro
2. LibreWolf 136.0-2
3. Classic
4. https://storiesonline.net/d/s6/t13882/something-is-wrong-the
5:
Separating line missing from forum posts.
There is three - - - under forum post icons, and on the post listed above, the icons is also missing.
1 - Debian GNU/Linux
2 - Firefox & Chromium
3 - Night. But applies to All
4 - Any Story, so here's the top one from the feed: https://storiesonline.net/s/22595/emptied-purse
5 - The #story CSS Selector has a rule for max-width: 35em;
It's fine when reading on my phone. But on a 20"+ display, over 2/3 of my screen is now wasted space.
The #story CSS Selector has a rule for max-width: 35em;
It's fine when reading on my phone. But on a 20"+ display, over 2/3 of my screen is now wasted space.
The story display system is independent from themes.
It allows you infinite customization, including that 35em max width. Create your own stylesheet and be comfortable:
Windows, Firefox, Classic theme, while editing a story review (https://storiesonline.net/review/myReviews.php?id=XXXX&cmd=editPosted), the labels for the rating dropdowns are doubled. That is, what appears is:
I posted this already but I was obviously not clear in my description. On the Homepage, top left, just below the title, is a box that states how many stories there are on the site and a date/time stamp (down to the second) of when that page was loaded. It was previously on all pages but is now missing from My Library and most of it's subpages.
missing last update date/time stamp on most of the My Library pages
At the end of a story, leaving a comment, the page slowly scrolled upwards, including the text box I was typing in, the end of the story, and the first few comments below the text box.
Having the text scroll as I read a story might be convenient, though disconcerting. Typing into a text box that is slowly scrolling up to the top of the window is a little annoying.
At the end of a story, leaving a comment, the page slowly scrolled upwards, including the text box I was typing in, the end of the story, and the first few comments below the text box.
The auto-scroller has a keyboard short cut (escape key), so if you hit the escape key, it starts scrolling. It doesn't stop on its own when it reaches the bottom of the story. It only stops when you navigate to a different story or hit escape again to stop the auto-scroller.
So if the form is scrolling up, hit the escape key to stop it.
3 - The theme you have selected: Browser theme? Default Storiesonline theme? Probably default, I'm not sure where to change it, if possible
4 - Page url where the problem manifests itself: Bookmarks and Reading Queue
5 - As accurate of a description of the issue as you can: The cells in the "Chapter" column no longer have borders. All other cells do. Also, the text size seems to have changed overnight. Text that appeared on one line now wraps around. Being able to set font size would be a plus.
I find that using 1/3 of the page for the storyline title, smashes everything else together in a confusing manner. I would appreciate if the storyline title could be placed at the top and the balance of the entries below it.
I'm testing your statement.
OpenSUSE Leap 15.6, Seamonkey, presumably Classic.
Mind you, the 4 icons (for Reply to Post, Report Abuse, back to top, Send Private Message) are smaller than they should be. I don't frequent the Forum when using my smartphone but can imagine that selecting the correct one of them using my outsized fingers could be pretty fraught.
Win 10 Pro, multiple browsers, Classic theme & no problems with those icons or their size (they're proportional to the size of the text, which i've made bigger).
However, the Delete and Edit icons are still missing. There are just the underscores to show where they should be.
I used to get four hyphens but now they've disappeared. However mouseover causes blueish squares to appear, and clicking on the correct one allowed this reply.
I used to get four hyphens but now they've disappeared. However mouseover causes blueish squares to appear, and clicking on the correct one allowed this reply.
Unfortunately I still get the blueish squares on mouseover, even after shutting down my browser to clear cookies and cache. However it's still usable as I was able to make this reply.
When the post is one of my own, so I'm allowed to edit or delete it, there are six blueish squares.
ETA Actually the hyphens were more useful. At least I could see where to mouseover rather than having to grope around.
For many years I have used a window 960w for reading stories and other menus like the reading queue which had a good layout with that same width. Now, the reading queue (https://storiesonline.net/library/my.php) seems all jammed up with columns spaced weirdly, compressing up the story names most resulting in a much longer list (pixel wise) and scrolled horizontally in the same 960w. Much harder to navigate. Windows, Firefox latest, Classic theme.
Now, the reading queue (https://storiesonline.net/library/my.php) seems all jammed up with columns spaced weirdly, compressing up the story names most resulting in a much longer list (pixel wise) and scrolled horizontally in the same 960w.
I reworked some measurements and column titles with your width in mind. The 'Prog' column's title is now 'P' and the 'Rating' column's title is now 'R' (those two columns took a lot of space simply for their titles as the content is a single digit or a bullet).
Check it out.
You can also shrink the font size to make even more fit on screen, if you use 8pt (the minimum) I'm sure you can have decent enough width for the story's title.
Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1
Mozilla Firefox 115.27.0esr (64-bit)
Modern Dark
An update to what I posted earlier. The banner for announcements looks like baby vomit, being some kind of green brown color that is ANNOYING AS HELL. I expect a banner for an announcement to be a bright color, even though I am using a dark theme. If not, make the color something that does not look like puke, please. My suggestion would be a brick red, with the blue highlighted words showing up just as well, but not being a nauseating color.
5 - The button at the top, that toggles between the fully history and today's stories, has a dark purple background with black text until you hover over it (or push on it for iPad) when it turns white. Unreadable in the purple/black combination.
2025 theme is not ready yet. But I had to release the main code to make sure that the existing themes are ok.
Tomorrow, 2025 will be hidden until it's mostly ready and then it will be open to more rigorous testing.
Thank you for the report and I'll fix the button color scheme. By the way, 2025 will be strictly auto-dark, auto-light modes. If your computer/device is in dark mode, the theme will be dark.
As I've said before, I really like your site. You put a lot of work into keeping your readers happy. This is a good example. The site works great IF you know all these tricks, like what 'P' and 'R' mean. If we write a "How To Navigate SOL" guide, can we put it somewhere everyone can find it?
(I'm here trying to see if anyone else has already reported my issue, which is that I don't see the "You are on page 12" box for My Library > Active Serials.)
(I'm here trying to see if anyone else has already reported my issue, which is that I don't see the "You are on page 12" box for My Library > Active Serials.)
I don't know what you means exactly, but under the header 'Active Serials' you should see something like 'Page 1 of 12'.
P and R were always there before, I simply reduced them to the first letter to shrink the width of the table as they took too much horizontal space. P is for 'progress' and R is for Rating.
Yes, you are right. There is a fixed line of text that says what page and how many. There used to be a box you could type into to skip X number of stories. That let me skip to the end where new stories with no updates collect. Now it's more awkward, especially on a slow satellite link. Wait for first page to load, click on the last page you can see, wait for it to load, click on the last one you see, wait for it to load...
For "active serials" it's even more awkward since the only page selector is on the bottom. It's wait for it to load, scroll to the bottom, click the last page you see, wait for it to load...
The current page number is editable. Load the page, click the '1' page number and change it to the page number you want and hit enter or click outside of it.
Ah. On this phone the Samsung browser only shows "storiesonline.net" on the URL line, but if I stick my fat finger up there the browser changes to show the whole URL which ends with 'p=4'. That works.
For P and R I apologize for being unclear. Everyone reading this thread now knows what they mean. I am asking if this is written anywhere besides this thread which will soon be buried under newer threads. Is there a "Using SOL 101" document anywhere? I looked a couple of times when trying to figure out how to do something when posting a story.
Thank you. That seems to be a lot more complete than the last time I checked. I clicked on a couple and they seemed helpful but they didn't have creation or update timestamps that I could see so they could all be new.
The announcement banners at the top of the page don't have enough contrast. They're dark blue text on yellowish-gray, and while it is readable, it is appreciably harder to read than the rest of the text on the page.
This may be a stupid question but when I hopped over to SciFi Stories, the Random Story was the second entry on the home page. Is that new or has it always been that way? I thought that was the 'not logged in' order.
ETA That now seems to be 'fixed' as the random story is now top on SciFi Stories..
Using iPad 17 with IOS 18.16.2. When I go into library, the entire selection set is grey. The blue and white alternating backgrounds around the choices in the library are harder to read.
On the forum, the buttons under posts are white on white, thus invisible. (Just about visible on greyed-out posts.) Also the background for quoted text is too dark a grey, making the text difficult to read.
1 Win 10 Pro
2 Edge & Firefox.
3 Classic (Light)
4 https://storiesonline.net/n/27344/the-library-of-ibados/39
5 Reader Comments at the end of a story, there are no lines or change in colour to break up the comments.
It's just one white background with bits of text on it, actually makes it somewhat difficult to read the comments.
And the comments section is now the same width as the story text, before it was more like the forum width.
Neither good, nor bad IMHO. Just different.
The notification banners (Contest, Test, Changes made) are behaving oddly.
Click on the home page, they appear. Hide them and click on the blog link, they are back. Hide them and click on the forum link, they are back. Hide them and every thread you clock on, they are back again.
sounds good to me! the yellow ad/announcement banners started to flash and disappear quickly for me today and I never changed a thing...still using classic them lol
sounds good to me! the yellow ad/announcement banners started to flash and disappear quickly for me today and I never changed a thing...still using classic them lol
3. "My Library"
4 In column of links at left,
- all links below "Show Tag" box, current date/time is visible
- all links above "Show Tag" box, no sign of current date'time/time
The links below the tag box are all pages external to the library, the links above it are to parts of the library itself.
The library's pages never had time stamps before now, so it's not missing, it's just different. The library doesn't really need a timestamp because its contents are controlled by the user.
Are the time stamps in the library really important to you?
Windows 7 Home Premium Service Pack 1
Mozilla Firefox 115.27.0esr (64-bit)
Modern Dark
New change I just noticed. The comments of the story I just caught up on, is all white background with black letters, with no separation lines, unlike the forums being black background with white letters and separation lines. So Modern Dark is very not dark when viewing the comments to the story. The story in question is;
A Variation On A Theme Story (6) by Grey Wolf
Other stories also exhibit the same issue when I checked, though previously had been normal dark theme.
The story display system has its own independent formatting and display mechanism as it allows infinite modifications and it's hard to predict what the user is using in relation to the comments, whether their system is using dark mode too or not.
Android phone, Galaxy S23, Samsung Internet browser, not sure of the theme, Seeing it in the list of new stories and story updates and anywhere there is a list.
Story titles for me are showing up in the same font and size as the author field. Is this part of the changes?
All quoted text in the forum is still blacked-out, but visible if you mouse-over in the box, as if to copy text. All links inside a post (reply, send message) are invisible until mouse-over.
edit - when a post is grayed-out (read) the links appear as white against the gray.
Android phone, Firefox, Mobile w/Auto-Dark-Mode. When reading stories, the theme is white letters on a black background. After the recent change, the comments are now black letters on a white background, unlike the story above the comments. Many comments also do not display the comment author's name, but might display the name of who they are replying to. Everything other than the comments section seems fine.
On the My Library Page, the < and > buttons for prev/next pages gets separated from the page numbers on wide screens. < is far left, > is far right and the numbers are centered. maybe a CSS thing. On pages like Historical Story Access, the numbers and prev/next buttons are constrained within the box. Maybe have the library follow that design...
The only change that I would make to the new look is to simply return the date/time to the My Library and Active Serials page; I often used that as confirmation that a balky mouse is actually taking the click and the page is simply refreshing faster than I'm seeing a reaction on the screen - if the time doesn't change, the mouse needs to be debalked; if it does, the referesh worked and the fact that I'm seeing no changes means that none of my stories has updated.
Not sure if this is related, but https://storiesonline.net/n/51058/a-man-named-mike shows up as having been posted on Posted: 19/09/2025, 13:14:39 (all three chapters the same second) and being Incomplete/inactive.
While it would be great if Gina was back writing and posting here, I doubt that's the case.
BTFH was a favorite of mine at one time, but for whatever reason I hadn't been on for a couple years. Glad that you're bringing over what you can. Sad that she isn't producing new stories. Frustrated that I can't get in touch or leave a comment to express my thanks for some 25 years of great writing. Still remember how pumped I was at her blog post announcing that her Tangent series in the Lord Kalvin universe would be published by John Carr. That apparently fell through, which was a real pity since I considered them as faithful to Piper as Carr's works. If you're still in contact, please ask her to consider allowing some form of communication from her myriad fans.
The good authors are not gone. Their old stories are still on the site and new ones are being added but not to the same extent as in the past. At the moment the site is being flooded with poorly written & extreme porn but these trends are cyclical and hopefully the garbage writers will drop off when they realise that no-one is reading their rubbish.
While some authors that were on my list of 'Best SOL authors' are gone, their stories have not been removed.
Several on my list have posted new chapters within the past two weeks, while others are in between stories but are active in the forums like Michael Loucks.
Between 2023 and 2024 there have been 15 finalists for the 'Author of the Year' clitorides award. One of those died in 2023. Of the 14 remaining, most have posted something in the past six months.
Windows, edge browser, classic
Serials updated table shows gray columns for each column except the downloads and score which show as yellow. I expected to see columns as mostly white (like it was before). I rather prefer the old classic settings, and not this new classic style. It certainly doesn't match the sample offered in the configuration/settings page.
Serials updated table shows gray columns for each column except the downloads and score which show as yellow.
What you're seeing is actually a feature. The greyed out stories in the Updated serials list and the new stories list are stories you've seen displayed for you. If the new stories list is not exhibiting the same 'problem', then go all the way to the end of the pages, and after that, new stories that haven't been viewed yet will have the classic view, and the one viewed will have the greyed out look.
I guess I should fix the stylesheet so that the yellow columns get greyed too.
Samsung, auto dark, Google Chrome.
Just noticed today. Story comments are no longer separated from one comment to another. Just one long batch of white with black text.
I too miss the dividing line between comments. The only thing separating comments is the hooked arrow for "reply" and other icons. The line exists in the Forum.
Suddenly I am being asked to confirm my age every time I open the site, the having to provide my username and password. Also the titles of stories I am reading are not changing to a different color to indicate I have opened them. This is not an improvement.
Have you made any changes to your browser lately? Or your AV software?
The issues you are describing are browser related- not the web site. If you clear your cookies and history every time you close your browser, then you will have to log in every time you come to the site & read stories colours won't change.
If your AV programme is set to clean up cookies, you'll have to log in every time.
If you're using In private/incognito or whatever private mode your browser calls it, you'll have to log in each time, etc.
It's an issue with your system software and it's settings, not the web site.
You may have a stale cookie or a bad cache for SOL. Use your browser's feature to clear data for SOL, then restart your browser. That has solved this for me when it has happened.
That would still require individual websites implement age verification. They might have a really hard time enforcing that for sites where the servers and the operator are both outside the US (and in different countries)
Suddenly I am being asked to confirm my age every time I open the site, the having to provide my username and password. Also the titles of stories I am reading are not changing to a different color to indicate I have opened them. This is not an improvement.
You're using the site in a private tab/window.
Switch to a normal window/tab and the cookie will be preserved (you stay logged in) and your history will be used (the color of the links).
Android Pixel 9p
Firefox Beta
Mobile Light (dark mode)
Add bookmark
Available tags are shown black on green, ok
Assigned tags are shown black on dark green, very hard to read, but X is white, please change text to white as well
Classic Theme formating doesn't always apply to 1st page of updates. If I cascade through the pages on Updates and New Stories I can finally get the theme to apply. It's not a deal breaker but it is annoying.
Is it supposed to be a dark theme? It doesn't show that way (for me) until I select it. I do prefer this background over the Olive drab from the modern dark theme. Most, if not all of the old links seem to come off the 'Read' or 'Authors/Editors' tabs now. Seems to work fine for me (Linux, Firefox 143.0.3).
The setting does not seem to survive a logout. When I log back in I have to select it again, if I want to continue using it. Maybe because it's still alpha?
Sorry, we were discussing the new 2025 theme. It just did it again, setting the 2025 theme does not hold, for me. Log out, then back in, and I'm back to classic theme. That's twice.
EDIT - None of the themes will hold a setting, for me. When logging back in, it always seems to revert to classic theme. I selected the modern dark theme, re-loaded the page to see the theme change, then closed the browser, refreshed, logged in again, and back to classic.
You don't delete cookies when you log out, do you?
No, only when I close the browser, but as Laz said, that shouldn't affect site settings.
As of this mornings login, the theme was retained. No idea why.
I did notice one other oddity. When selecting an option from the 'Read' drop-down, the drop-down itself stays down instead of retracting, until you click somewhere else on the page. No big deal.
I did notice one other oddity. When selecting an option from the 'Read' drop-down, the drop-down itself stays down instead of retracting, until you click somewhere else on the page. No big deal.
That's the intended behavior, not an oddity or bug.
1 To be sure the library menu is always on top of the read menu, add a z-index there:
.hmb-drp-cont li:hover > ul {
display: block;
z-index: 1;
}
2 It's a rather long menu those without a scroll wheel and with a text zoom may not be able to reach the end as it is allowed to develop bellow the viewport.
There are solution to that the simplest being multiple columns menu.
