Johanna

I'm working on it.

I think I can add alternative themes. Give me a few days to get everything else going and I'll make one similar to the old one. I just put it on my list.

@dikmanI was hoping the brown bar would help. People seem to like the lighter background, so let's try it for a bit? It's easy to change if we decide we don't like it anymore. I'm really liking how it seems to fit on the phones better. You can collapse categories if you don't want to scroll too far. The server is still running clean up tasks in the background so I expect the search functions and some of the errors to resolve in the next day or two. The database is over 700G so it takes a while to process. What do you think of the emails? I just love the logo at the top. Is anyone having problems getting their private messages? All of mine seem to be working and intact. Also you may want to check your notifications in your profile because there are different options now, and it looks like some folks got reset to default.

I put the brown header back. Does that help? The logo isn't acting right and I'm leaving it off for now. What do you think of the ads? I think they are less intrusive not being all bunched up. Is anyone having any issues on a mobile device? Trying to sort everything out before I go on to the next thing.

I'll paint the car when I'm sure the engine is running well. If you guys are noticing any issues please let me know. I'm checking everything, and there are all sorts of new things so I don't want to miss anything. Thanks for the kind words. We've got close to 20 years of info here, and it's because of leatherworkers from everywhere. You folks are the best. ~J

We got hacked Friday night. All member data is safe. This is just the default "skin" because I'm figuring out how to put humpty dumpty back together again. The server is running clean up tasks in the background, so the lag will clear up in a bit. I've got a list of things to take care of, but at 3 am I thought the board was gonna be toast. I was fortunate to have layers of updates this time, because they acted like bandaids and the hacker didn't get anything they wanted. I had to do a clean install, so the database, which is huge (700G) is still cleaning up. I expect to find broken links here and there- do me a favor and let me know if you're seeing other problems that aren't just "the look"right now. Thanks for your patience, everyone!

I’ll check into that. I can see the benefits of compression because LW is clunky on the server side after 18 years.

This article I love it. Would like to see more of this. We've all experienced the snickers at seeing the price tag on a bag we could make 10X better for a fraction of the cost. This fellow documents and shares his findings. bwahahaha

I thought this expensive purse looked like a bag of trash, and it turns out that it was inspired by one. I'm having a giggle fit.

Try it now. I think I got it.

I gotta go poke around but you all should have the same permissions you did before. Contributing members don't have the CFM designation because it's their secondary permission set. I kinda like that "certified mental freaks" but no, that's not why I typed it. I had to fill in the box to continue, so I typed CF. "controversial forum" member. Gimme a few minutes. I'm glad you let me know there was an issue. ~J