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April 20, 2008

Posted on 04/20/2008 7:54:02 AM PDT by processing please hold

When I came on FR this morning my configuration had changed. In order to see my sidebar I have to use the bottom scroll arrow to see it. I went to 'configure sidebar' but to no avail. I also went to my account to tinker with 'my preferences'. There are only three options on it now. (1) Thread Pagination (2) Browsing (3)Windows

None of these are any help in getting back by previous layout.

Any help sure would be appreciated.


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To: Former War Criminal

I never log off FR.


41 posted on 04/20/2008 8:36:40 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: processing please hold

That usually is caused by someone posting a long URL in the article Source, rather than in the Source URL.

The long URL causes the page to extend.

Give it a while, and as more posts are made, they will eventually push the long URL post off your current view, and things should return to normal.

[If you click on Next Page, your sidebar will probably be back to its original format.]


42 posted on 04/20/2008 8:38:29 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: brityank
Just think how boring it would be to have nothing to gripe about in your life.
Be grateful! :^)

You're much too cheerful this early in the morning. I look at the sidebar first thing to see if the world was blown as I slept. Since the sidebar wasn't there.....

I get to sleep late on Sundays and I always have my coffee with FR news. There's no black ink stains on my fingers anymore.

43 posted on 04/20/2008 8:43:17 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: TomGuy; IronJack
[If you click on Next Page, your sidebar will probably be back to its original format.]

That didn't work, I tried it. Thanks to IronJack, it's fixed now.

44 posted on 04/20/2008 8:46:01 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: P.O.E.
This new format makes FR much less user-friendly.

I would have to agree with you. What I find irritating are the vanishing threads and replies.

45 posted on 04/20/2008 8:49:06 AM PDT by politicalwit (AKA... A Tradition Continues...Now a Hoosier Freeper)
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To: djf

The font changes have been ridiculous.

If as much time had been spent on creating a functional search capability as changing the formats, it would have been something useful.

Instead, we have to adapt.

I open Latest Articles, individual articles, and My Comments in separate tabs for easy refreshing. Now, they all end up with the same size fonts. I liked the old format with large fonts only on the individual articles. They are too big for the Latest Articles and My Comments pages. But, that is what we are stuck with.

I changed my browser font size, IE Options font size, and WinXP desktop font size 6-8 times each since the changes began a couple weeks ago. Every time I would get it just about acceptible, the fonts formats would all change.

At least, the persistent font resizing seems to have ceased. That played havoc with tabbed browsers.


46 posted on 04/20/2008 8:51:22 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: TomGuy

This is the right answer.


47 posted on 04/20/2008 8:51:55 AM PDT by andyandval
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Oh man, my problem has returned.


48 posted on 04/20/2008 9:04:24 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: brityank
I also like http://beta.freerepublic.com/perl/pings

When I open my regular FR pages (tabs), Latest Articles and My Comments are huge (compared to the old format).

I open that beta website in exactly the same browser with exactly the same configuration, and the fonts on the beta is so tiny I can hardly read them.

That is the persistent problem many of us are having with the font size changes. They are not consistent.

If I have to readjust my browser to increase the beta fonts to readable sizes, the fonts on the main website (non-beta) become huge.


49 posted on 04/20/2008 9:04:45 AM PDT by TomGuy
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To: don'tspeak4me

Bring back BRIEF comments, please!

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50 posted on 04/20/2008 9:06:49 AM PDT by maggief
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To: processing please hold

It’s fixed again. If my hair wasn’t so over dyed I’d be pulling on it. It’s maddening for it to keep jumping around like it is.


51 posted on 04/20/2008 9:08:49 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: processing please hold
Yes, I'm aware that medication should take care of that little voice but we get along so famously. lol

LOL!

52 posted on 04/20/2008 9:10:24 AM PDT by calcowgirl ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." P. J. O'Rourke)
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To: TomGuy

I know one thing - as a professional programmer/systems engineer, if I were to change the user interfaces/operational characteristics of the systems I work on without running it by the users first, there’d be hell to pay!

But I don’t work on gui based systems, and don’t have near as many users as FR.


53 posted on 04/20/2008 9:11:49 AM PDT by djf
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To: calcowgirl

;)


54 posted on 04/20/2008 9:16:32 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: TomGuy; Admin Moderator
That usually is caused by someone posting a long URL in the article Source, rather than in the Source URL.

I'm sure that's it. It's happened before. Maybe the Mighty Admin can track down the offending post.

55 posted on 04/20/2008 9:26:50 AM PDT by JennysCool (They all say they want change, but theyÂ’re really after folding money.)
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To: JennysCool

-now that makes perfect sense. I didn’t spot a huge picture, which will do the same.


56 posted on 04/20/2008 9:28:54 AM PDT by tioga
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To: TomGuy; Admin Moderator

That MUST have been it. The problem is now on my second page of posts.


57 posted on 04/20/2008 9:29:11 AM PDT by JennysCool (They all say they want change, but theyÂ’re really after folding money.)
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To: processing please hold

I’m running Firefox but the donation bar seems to be stuck at 72%.


58 posted on 04/20/2008 9:32:01 AM PDT by steve86 (Acerbic by nature, not nurture™)
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To: steve86
I’m running Firefox but the donation bar seems to be stuck at 72%.

I've noticed that as well.

59 posted on 04/20/2008 9:34:41 AM PDT by processing please hold ( "It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.")
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To: processing please hold
Insert long legalese warning that doing the following is your fault, no one else's and promise to double your annual FR contribution if it works ...

Sign here: _____________________


MR Tech Link Wrapper 2.2 - https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2021

Your good deed for today: Ping others on this thread! This works great - you'll see a green check mark bottom right on the status bar - make sure status bar under "View" is "checked/enabled" ;-)

60 posted on 04/20/2008 9:50:00 AM PDT by Tunehead54 (Nothing funny here. ;-)
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