Unfortunately, I'm not really having this problem. Seems weird that this is happening.

Maybe it's a server issue on their end?

So, the problem persists, but we have figured out a little of what is going on.

The problem exists in trying to load the CSS from Twisted Skein. When I block the style sheet in my browser, everything loads very quickly, but with the same blue links and lack of fanciness that this problem is causing. In an effort to track this down further, I attempted to follow a link to TS from the Wiki. Alas, I cannot even access the site.

hS, everything working there on your end?

-Phobos

The Board used to have every post in a single thread available to view and select when I clicked on any individual post in that thread, which made it easy for me to follow multiple paths at once, and proved incredibly useful when I was catching up with the RPs a while back and when I needed to look through threads from a few years ago for information.

Now when I click on a thread, the only posts that appear are the ones immediately following the post I clicked on, with no other paths visible at all. I can't even click on the earlier posts in the path I'd been reading without going back to the front page and selecting them from there.

While this isn't so much of a problem when I'm looking at a thread that's currently on the front page, if I'm looking through a past thread from an unknown number of pages ago, it makes it impossible for me to trace back to the initial post, which is the only one that still lets layout behave as it originally did.

On the technical side, my computer runs on Windows Vista, and I look at the Board from Firefox and occasionally Google Chrome. It's been happening on both browsers. Not sure how much that will help, though, because I've also seen this issue when I checked the Board from two entirely different computers. Maybe I accidentally disabled something, or our Board is being used as a test for some new code. Nobody else has mentioned this issue, though, which is making me think that it might only be a problem that I'm experiencing.

But I've noticed that threads only load to the previous tier for me - I thought it was because I was accessing the site with a smartphone, but Firefox and Chrome both seem to be doing the same thing. Is this a New Thing we're trying, or did the 'Board just decide on its own?

Firefox (v25.01) on Winslows 7, Chrome (v31.0.1650.57 m) on Winslows 7, and Firefox 23.0 on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS all show the Board perfectly fine.

Er, sorry, channelling Clippy...

Anyhow. The usual reason for that is that when you loaded the Board, it didn't load up the style sheet which tells it how to do... all those things. Why not? Because... reasons.

I honestly don't know. The CSS is stored on my webs.com domain, so it may be a problem over there, but I seem to recall it happening back when it was on, uh, dropbox or something, too. I've never been able to detect any pattern to it. Ultimately, my guess is that the slow loading is the cause, rather than an effect - it loads slowly, so it never bothers to load the CSS. Why it's loading slowly? Eh... return to top of paragraph.

hS

PS: Hey, someone mentioned the light grey! What do you think of it? I was trying to put in something that would break up the Great White Page without changing the aesthetic too much - how'd it work?

This morning before I left for work it was doing that. It worked perfectly on my phone, though, and works perfectly here at work.

I think it might just be our internet.

-Phobos