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#4255 Several problems with website/user preferences
Problem 1: I normally browse slashdot with guest access. Lately the format/layout of the page changes randomly from what seems to be the basic layout and then the beta index layout. Is this by design?
Problem 2: I made an account to get around problem one via preferences. I was testing preferences and set my page to use simple design. As soon as I did that I could no longer change my preferences. I just get a gray box where the settings would be. I had to download firefox in order to get it to work correctly. I use Vista/IE7, 1280x1024. (See screenshot1).
Problem 3: After resetting my display I went into the prefs again and found that animated banners on the page before the prefs screen end up overlapping the prefs screen itself. (See Screenshot2).
Screenshot1 - blank user prefs box
Screenshot2 - banner covering user prefs box
File Added: slashdot_bug2.jpg
Similar problems on SeaMonkey 1.1.12 on Mac OS X 10.4.11, 1280x800 resolution. I can get my old user page back by forcing display with users.pl rather than users2.pl, which seems to be the new default (i.e., manually entering "http://slashdot.org/users.pl" in the URL bar) but the preferences links are still essentially broken. All I want is my old user page and preferences back! Please fix this.
Similar problems on SeaMonkey 1.1.12 on Mac OS X 10.4.11, 1280x800 resolution. I can get my old user page back by forcing display with users.pl rather than users2.pl, which seems to be the new default (i.e., manually entering "http://slashdot.org/users.pl" in the URL bar) but the preferences links are still essentially broken. All I want is my old user page and preferences back! Please fix this.