Oh sweet fuck, tell me this is a joke

[branchandroot]

*looking at the "new and improved" archive skin in horror*

Gray! The background is GRAY!

And the "this is one of your own things" background is PINK!

*horrified beyond words*

ETA: A Quick Fix Skin I ran up is available here until it actually goes public.

Comments

[musyc]

Came across this on my network and was ridiculously relieved to finally find a place of commiseration. Hardly anyone I've talked to in the past few hours understands the pain. My frankenpasted skin is borked, and I have NO idea what to do to fix it, (see as read, frankenpasted from various sources I can't even fiiiiiiind now) and OMG, I can't view one damn thing on my mobile device *grrargh*.

I was very excited about new skins and after the deploy I nearly cried. Maybe this will give me the impetus to finally make things purple like I prefer them, but until I have the energy to do that, whyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy. Were these skins tested AT ALL?

[branchandroot]

*sympathy* As best I can tell, no, nothing was tested, up to and including the default itself. There are a number of really obvious glitches that should never have made it into production.

As for the "won't need !important" any more... *laughs hollowly*

[musyc]

I've already discovered the importance of !important. *joins in the hollow laughter*

[musyc]

GRR ARGH. 75% of what I'm putting into the skin requires bloody important tags!

On the plus side, I have managed to:
*get date posted, authors, and titles on works in a large font (I skim by date posted first on the rarely-posted fandoms I follow)
*get relationships to stand-out (skimming to avoid pairings/characters I don't like)
*turn all the FRICKIN' red to purple
*get rid of the logo and my icon in the header
*put commas back into the tag lists
*PUT SOME BLOODY SPACING BETWEEN PARAGRAPHS OH MY GOD WHY ARE THEY SO CLOSE TOGETHER
*narrow margins on works so the lines are only 75% of the screen
*get rid of all those drop-shadow 2.0 nonsense things

Next up, figuring out how to align all my header nav buttons to the left where they belong AND shrinking that stupid footer, seriously why is it 800 feet high. I'm aggravated that my filters have somehow ended up on the bottom of the page, instead of a sidebar, but I only ever use them to remove non-English fics from the list (I mean, YAYYYYYYY for multiple languages on the Archive, but I can't read them so I don't personally need them in the list), so it's not AS big an issue.

Of course, nothing I do whatsoever makes the site usable on my iPod. Glad that wasn't my primary fic-reading device or anything. *headdeskheaddesk*

[branchandroot]

*cheers you on*

Yeah, I got a skin run up with some really basic fixes to color and font and margins (including the footer, omgwtfbbq). Now... now I'm back to wrangling with my modular skin. *buckles her DOM inspector on grimly*

[zebra_in_dream]

Some skins only got a cursory brush, the default skin was tested by quite a lot of people on different systems. But test feedback needs to be heard and fixes need the time for implementation and re-testing. Preferably without Yuletide breathing down one's neck, because Yuletide wasn't to be run without tag sets and tag sets already used the re-designs.

And some things did actually get changed before they got onto beta.