Am I the only one who detected strange behaviour by the Forum today?
This morning while using the Forum as normal when I loaded another page there was no formatiing at all. That happened with all pages and made them unusable.
When I came back to the Forum an hour or so later the masthead had changed and it was requiring me to login again?
I was concerned that this might be a continuation of the problems that were recently reported and alleged to have been fixed so I waited until now to login. I am hoping that the fact that other regular users have been using the Forum can be interpreted to mean it is safe to use.
If this was a result of routine maintenance why weren't we given some advance notice? Or even some after-the-fact information in this section of the Forum.
I noticed the same thing too, had to log in.
The pages of this forum have a new format, but are still similar.
Most visible changes are the top and bottom of every page.
So far the SMF copyright and version info is missing, but inspecting this page reveals there's still some relation to SMF.
There's also some hints that there's some more minor changes coming up, because some remarks about temporary solutions can be found.
A short time after I wrote the Original Post here I got the message that I was banned permanently when I tried to respond to a Thread. When I logged out I was also told that Guest was banned - which was a relief
Well, glad we were informed well in advance of of changes and updates and the implications of it.
Wouldn't want the shitload of problems which occurred after the last major update..
I've lost two lengthy replies, managed to rescue parts of them from my drafts at least. Hopefully that's just a side effect of work in progress.
The footer is definitely way larger than it needs to be.
The shopping bag and profile buttons on the header highlight on hover but not the search button.
I could care less about how "pretty" a website looks. I prefer no unnecessary graphics, animations, rounded corners, etc. but I guess designers have to make a living somehow.
They fixed a dead area under the header that's been annoying me for ages though so at least there's some improvement.
Footer much larger than before, including wasted space at the bottom, and the header overlaps the top of the topic text when replying so it may have got deeper too. Also had problems logging in/staying logged in for a period of time.
