Changing Skins

[BobH]

No, I'm not about to ask how to change the 'skin' I use. As you can see from my UCP, I use Latte Red.

latte red.PNG

When I reply to or make a post and that post is then redisplayed, it appears in what I think is SubSilver as shown here.

silver something.PNG

Do I have something set wrong? Does anyone else have this problem?

This post's redisplay.

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[HansV]

Let's test this - I switched to Latte Red for the moment.
When I click Preview, it is still in Latte Red.
I'm now going to click Submit.

[HansV]

The page still used Latte Red when it was redisplayed after submitting. I'll now switch to my test user Dopje who has no special privileges.

[Dopje]

Dopje switched to Latte Red too.
Let's preview this reply.
Still in Latte Red.
Now Submit.

[Dopje]

And still in Latte Red...

[HansV]

Sorry, I cannot reproduce the problem...

[StuartR]

How are you changing skins?

If you use the BOARD STYLE dropdown in the portal then this just uses the URL to store your new skin, and can lead to inconsistent results

BOARD STYLE.png

If you use the My board style: drop down in the control panel then it should stick

Control Panel.png

[HansV]

Bob's screenshot in the first post of this thread shows that he set the skin in his user control panel.

[StuartR]

I guess this could still give a strange result if he followed an old link that had an embedded board style, but other than that it should be OK

[BobH]

I think I'll try changing skins and see if the problem follows the changes.

If you have other suggestions, I'm all ears (to reference another thread )

[BobH]

I changed the skin to ProSilver then displayed several pages. All seemed normal but I didn't try a post to see what would happen. I have now changed to Latte (not Latte Red) and make this post to test what will happen.

[BobH]

I have once again chosen Latte Red and test to see the effect.

[BobH]

Another test just because.

[BobH]

Seems to be resolved now.

[stuck]

I think what Bob is seeing is yet another variation on the 'spontaneous log out' bug thst has plagued us for a very long time now. I say this because something similar happens to me every now and then.

I'm logged in and so I see The Lounge in my chosen skin (Elegance), I submit the post and I'm logged out, so I see The Lounge in the default skin.

Ken

[BobH]

My instance was not associated with an unexpected logout. It happened every time I made a post. On pressing enter, I received a display of my post in the default skin, aka style. On returning to the list of threads, the skin reverted to my chosen Latte Red.

After switching back and forth a few times to ProSilver, then back to my preferred Latte Red, the problem has disappeared. If it returns, I shall report.