Change Width

[ProdigalDaughter]

The "Change width" option on Firefox reverts quite frequently, I don't know if this is intended behavior or an oversight but it would be nice if it was fixed or if someone wants to inform me it's on my end.

Edit: prob an issue with my cookies, think I fixed it.
Edit2: Defiantly did not fix it.

 

[Amadan]

It reverts Quite often for me using Edge as well

 

[Fatcat]

Edit: prob an issue with my cookies, think I fixed it.

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HOW

 

[ProdigalDaughter]

HOW

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Just looking at Edge, go to "Privacy, search, and services", then go to "Cookies" and add QQ to "Allowed to save cookies"
If that does not work just fiddle with cookie settings, fixed itself in Firefox when I told it to stop clearing cookies.

 

[ProdigalDaughter]

It reverts Quite often for me using Edge as well

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Just look at cookie settings and try to get the browser to stop clearing them on QQ or in general, could also be a issue with your extensions.

 

[Spudr]

I have this problem as well.

And it's not a matter of cookie settings since other cookies from this site (like the one that keeps me logged in) work just fine.

 

[ANewDeity]

I have this problem as well.

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Yeah, no combination of cookie settings fixed it for me, either. It eventually annoyed me enough to try to download an extension for protecting cookies from deletion (I'm using this one), and after telling it to protect the xf_toggle cookie I haven't had the width revert on me. Obviously that extension is for firefox, but a similar add-on probably exists for chromium-based browsers, assuming manifest v3 allows it.

A bit annoying to have a whole extension installed for a single cookie on a single website. Not a perfect solution by any means, but it's the only thing that's worked for me at all.

Edit: This has stopped working for me. The xf-toggle cookie itself has changed, too, now saying something about threadmarks. It's not deleting itself thanks to the browser extension, but something is overwriting it and removing the width part of it.

 

[kellanved]

Yeah it looks like the xf toggle cookie just gets deleted when some random condition triggers. It's been years with this bug at this point

 

[Random Omnipotent Being]

Maybe we could get a toggle in our preferences for this?

 

[ProdigalDaughter]

Yeah it looks like the xf toggle cookie just gets deleted when some random condition triggers. It's been years with this bug at this point

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Just looking at the cookie with the Cookie Quick Manager Extension, it seems like it just expires abnormally quickly, idk if someone should message an admin asking to change it

 

[LurkingInTheDeceit]

alethiophile or ultima333, is this something you could help with?

 

[Spudr]

So, today the site has been wiping that cookie practically every time I load a new page. Has anyone actually looked into fixing this?

 

[kellanved]

Doesn't look like it, it has been pretty bad lately.

 

[SnarkLord]

...so it may be me not seeing it on mobile, or missing something obvious but..what is this "Change width" option you're talking about???
It's not in preferences, Or other account settings, and on the regular site i can pick the font size and the style.
Nothing whatsoever about width...

 

[Spudr]

...so it may be me not seeing it on mobile, or missing something obvious but..what is this "Change width" option you're talking about???
It's not in preferences, Or other account settings, and on the regular site i can pick the font size and the style.
Nothing whatsoever about width...

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At the very bottom of the page, next to style chooser. Playing with the window size, if you make it narrow enough the button doesn't show up so it might indeed not be showing up on mobile.

Honestly, the simplest way to fix the problem might be to just merge the two functions (not that fixing the cookie should be complicated...) Just have blackened (wide) and blackened (narrow) as distinct styles.

 

[KaneLives]

At the very bottom of the page, next to style chooser. Playing with the window size, if you make it narrow enough the button doesn't show up so it might indeed not be showing up on mobile.

Honestly, the simplest way to fix the problem might be to just merge the two functions (not that fixing the cookie should be complicated...) Just have blackened (wide) and blackened (narrow) as distinct styles.

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I'm also on mobile, and see nothing at all next to the Style Chooser menu option. And I know for a fact I have not messed with the screen size at all. Even screenshots that show it do not help to find an option that seemenly does not exist normally.

 

[SnarkLord]

At work, so cant see how this looks on desktop
That said
As i obviously never used it
What does the "width change" , actually change?
Spacing between characters? Between words? Parallel spacinf between lines? Paragraphs? Vertical spacing from edges of screen?
all are valid options in a text editor, but idk what options they'd put on the selector...

(Also, admittedly, curious why a width change is needed as the page default, and most of users use thesame font/use same text editor settings, which from what i see are pretty much the same as most other forums and aren't spaced too close/apart to hinder reading)

 

[Spudr]

I'm also on mobile, and see nothing at all next to the Style Chooser menu option. And I know for a fact I have not messed with the screen size at all. Even screenshots that show it do not help to find an option that seemenly does not exist normally.

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It's called "responsive design." Basically, it means that you see different versions of the site depending on the size or shape of the viewport, so instead of having a separate mobile site, you automatically see the mobile-ish version if your viewport is taller than it is wide, or has width of less than x pixels (back when I had a course in web design the recommendation was that the mobile version is shown if the viewport is less than 800 pixels wide, but in the days of 1440p smartphones I guess that no longer makes much sense) or something else.

What does the "width change" , actually change?

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It changes the width of the content so instead of stretching from one edge of the screen to the other it's contained to the center of the window. Pointless on mobile, practically mandatory for pleasant user experience if you have a large screen and browser window covering most of it.

 

[SnarkLord]

It's called "responsive design." Basically, it means that you see different versions of the site depending on the size or shape of the viewport, so instead of having a separate mobile site, you automatically see the mobile-ish version if your viewport is taller than it is wide, or has width of less than x pixels (back when I had a course in web design the recommendation was that the mobile version is shown if the viewport is less than 800 pixels wide, but in the days of 1440p smartphones I guess that no longer makes much sense) or something else.


It changes the width of the content so instead of stretching from one edge of the screen to the other it's contained to the center of the window. Pointless on mobile, practically mandatory for pleasant user experience if you have a large screen and browser window covering most of it.

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Thanks for the explanation...
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Though, honestly, that sounds like something i'd adjust in browser settings instead of doing it one webpage at a time...

 

[Spudr]

Thanks for the explanation...
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Though, honestly, that sounds like something i'd adjust in browser settings instead of doing it one webpage at a time...

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There aren't any browser settings for it that I'm aware of (unless you count add-ons that allow you to apply custom CSS) and anyway, almost all websites already have maximum width for various UI elements so you don't have this problem.