Is half the site dead?

[Rustyoznail]

This may be completely unrelated to what's happening here, but interestingly, another forum I'm on has booted me out of my PC login and refuses to accept my credentials. I can still get in via Chrome on Android. I've also tried the usual tricks to try and login. It all happened around the same time.

The thing that's annoying me about Lit at the moment is its insistence in randomly serving me the "new, definitely not improved" version of the forums. It's been noted in the Tech forum for ages.

 

[MrPixel]

The thing that's annoying me about Lit at the moment is its insistence in randomly serving me the "new, definitely not improved" version of the forums. It's been noted in the Tech forum for ages.

That happens to me quite a bit and I have come to understand it is from delays in the handoff between the server handling the login and account info, and the forum server. Anyway, my semi-educated guess it's also related to CSS.

 

[Pureotica]

I'm an alien-symbiont/cybernetically enhanced/reanimated zombie. Does that count?

Or maybe I've read too many comic books.

 

[onehitwanda]

Thanks, but I'm a nerd, too. At least on the Apple side of the fence, there's something at the OS level that determines this behavior - and it very well may be Java$cript. Apple has had a fraught relationship with Java$cript for a while. I suspect big CSS changes are behind the LitE problems, but it's not anywhere close my job to ferret that out. There are far more knowledgeable folk in these parts.

I'm mostly just venting my displeasure with the lack of recognition that everybody doesn't have to be running the latest and greatest whiz-bang for this minimal access, which used to function just fine. I'm not accusing upgrading for upgrading's sake (there may be server framework dependencies dictating the change... been there), but there is the throwing the baby out with the bathwater aspect to this.

I always say to my team - I'm an old dog, I distrust new tricks. I'll always choose a creaky, old, well-tested, reliable system that does things Good Enough (TM) than some shiney new magpie nonsense that the senior architect swears will solve everyone's problems...

guess I'm just jaded.

 

[MrPixel]

Right there with you, sis. My soapbox about "The Cloud" gets dragged out on occasion. PCs were invented primarily to take away the hyper-centralization of DP departments, and "the kids", having not lived through dependence on somebody else's resources and dictates to manage their data, are destined to repeat history.

Yeah, there are orders of magnitude differences from there to here, but then I just have to point out the 2017 Photobucket debacle and the tens of thousands of users who abandoned their photo libraries rather than submit to the extortion in a sudden TOU change.

 

[onehitwanda]

I'm a firm believer in using the right tool for the right job. I don't want a socket wrench near my nunu, no matter how much someone might try to convince me that it will work and that it's functionally equivalent to a dildo.