Xcolibur

[pne]

Went to lookup a FAQ on LiveJournal this morning... they switched the site scheme on me! Suddenly, it was in Xcolibur instead of the Dystopia I had become used to.

I was not particularly pleased. Went to /manage/siteopts.bml and switched back, but that set a cookie with my scheme preference—so it'll probably still be "messed up" in my other browsers which don't have this cookie set and I'll have to select it all over again.

Edit: Ah, I see there's an announcement in news about this. It seems to have garnered quite a few comments, too (1048 right now).

Edit: Hm, it does seem to remember my scheme choice with my user. At any rate, in two other browsers on this machine, it gave my Dystopia as soon as I logged in (though it was Xcolibur before that). I'm slightly mollified now.

Comments

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

I always thought Dystopia was pretty ugly and so switched to Xcolibur as soon as it was released. All your prefs (scheme, language) are saved as part of your account, though, so they're the same as soon as you login.

[pne.livejournal.com]

I always thought Dystopia was pretty ugly and so switched to Xcolibur as soon as it was released.

Well... but I had got used to it. I think in such cases, I'd rather put up with something I know than have it changed to something different even if it's better.

All your prefs (scheme, language) are saved as part of your account, though, so they're the same as soon as you login.

Here at work, it's all XColibur, though (on both MozFirebird and Opera). Strange. I wonder why it'd be Dystopia on three browsers at home but XColibur on two browsers at work. Hm, it's Dystopia on the MSIE at work (which I hardly ever use). Bizarre.

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

That's a bit strange. Perhaps you've been logged in since before they started saving site prefs with your login. Logout and back in - might fix things.

[pne.livejournal.com]

Heh :) See my comment to myself (http://www.livejournal.com/users/pne/130188.html?thread=247180) where I guessed the same.

Maybe I should just go down the Xcolibur road, though.

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

:) You could do or you could go for the whole lynx minimalist thing!

[pne.livejournal.com]

I'm doing Xcolibur now.

Actually, it doesn't hurt as much as I thought it would *twitch* *twitch*

[nik-w.livejournal.com]

I knew you could do it!:D Well done! *round of applause*

[pne.livejournal.com]

Hm... I wonder whether that's because I had to login on MSIE?

On MozFirebird and Opera, I'm perma-loggedin through a cookie. So maybe it didn't load my scheme preference into that session, or something.

Maybe I should just bite the bullet and do the XColibur thing.