We’re sorry for the page styling problems. This seems to be caused by a server-side upgrade issue — our incomplete stylesheet depended on another that just changed and broke everything. We’re trying to do a roll-back which will give us time to fix our theme. Thanks for your understanding. Feel free to unleash your rage in the comments below ;-)
Pro Tip (or should that be a website fail tip?): Hit CTRL-A (select all) in order to read the white text on white background comments below.
Update: Things look mostly back to normal again. Sorry again for the troubles…. but I’m actually having some fun reading the comments on this one!
first
to complain, of course.
I was so close..
First rage comment that no-one can read! ARGH!
Everything was fine until you told me and i hit ctrl+f5!
Ugh why did I have to copy you?
Gotcha :P
RAH, RAGE RAGE RAGE.
i bet it took me less time to fix the css than it took you post this story.
If only I had direct access to the CSS this would be fixed by now (or at least the background colors would be back to normal :-P
Too bad you guys are dependent on WordPress. ;)
Yes sadly so.
WordPress VIP appear to have pushed a change to the underlying Genesis template that our theme is based upon. They did this without warning or seemingly testing anything.
Completely unacceptable! Especially since its a change that we ourselves cannot revert.
Come on, the website is called “Hack a day”. And the website is not hackable, no self hosting?
True. Anyone who writes about electronics must host their own site. /sarcasm
i bet it did, i mean it took me 1sec to change the white back to black. But i think the point of this post was to let people know what was going on and not to have a race with the users to see who can fix it first ;)
I love how the elite hacker/engineer site has broken stylesheets and it’s taken over an hour to fix.
Remember guys: you can’t use an Arduino to fix this!
i’m pretty sure you “could” fix this with an arduino, if that is your thing.
LOL I turned the page style to no style in Firefox and I was able to read the comments fine. I suppose complaining in a forum about something that those hosting the forum and reading the complaints can’t do a thing about might be cheap therapy for some.
for(var i=0; i< document.getElementsByTagName(“p”).length; i++) {document.getElementsByTagName(“p”)[i].style.color=”gray”;}
Run that in the console.
Ah nice, I did. But sadly either your editor or WordPress’s horrible style sheet or whatever “smart”-quoted it out of action. You need to fix each occurence of the quote mark into actual normal ones for it to work.
Ah… it was the style sheet! I’ve never entered a “smart” quote in my life! Curses! curses.h!
the color you are searching for is #f5f5f5 or white smoke, simply debug your browser find all style references to that color, add a background color #000 !important; to every class that uses whitesmoke,in your stylesheet and then delete until it looks good again.
after that you can focus on the problem
:P
For once getting the magic white smoke out SOLVES a problem!
if you have a backup of the file before you upgraded you can replace the existing one.
the page looks ok i dont see anything wrong
i think you should not upgrade unless there is a show stopping security issue or a feature that you cant reproduce via redundancy long drawn out code
This was not our upgrade unfortunately. We run the site through WordPress VIP (who have hosted HackADay for years now). They performed the upgrade without our knowledge and did not check our site.
They’ve now reverted the change and will give us some time to fix the theme.
Your little fail icon has a skull sticking out it’s tongue from where it’s nosehole should be. That’s my complaint; I want it officially registered :D
It’s Mr. Yuk.
With a three ball-sack chin?
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbG7na9M1lY&w=300]
OMG! for years that was my absolute favorite family guy clip! I guess great minds think alike!
AH! Mr Yuk! Kids keep your lips off the PineSol! (like I listened!) *hiccuping bubbles*
The website ain’t that good looking anyhow.
I don’t know. I’ve been reading since nearly the beginning (nine years ago) and there’s a special place in my heart for the old black green and white. I also like the simplicity — makes it very easy for me to scroll down and see what I missed (although that happens less now that I’m doing the scheduling).
Yes! Exactly! It just doesn’t feel right without it!
Ah is that what it was? My browser SNAFUs like that every now and then anyway. No big deal.
Nice it’s all working again – I don’t suppose you guys have any plans to upgrade the template/theme to a more modern, fluid layout that fills in all of that empty real-estate on larger monitors? ;)
I for one want a better comment system first. It would be nice to have a way of easily finding which comments are new. I would also like some different presentation options as well (organize chronologically, by most popular, etc.) That’s quite a ways off, but I will keep on it.
But once that happens it’ll probably be time for another layout audit.
Surely HAD could hire a programmer or find one willing to get credit with a link back *hint hint* that’d atleast write a theme that’ll work the way the current one does without the scare of remote updates!
…or maybe a COMPETITION!!, with a few “Mystery Box” awards containing products from sponsors, like 3D printers/Makerbots/etc, varieties of IC chips, microcontrollers, parts kits, tools, books, ardiunos/shields, servos, sensors, (robotics parts?), laptops, software, “arducopter”/quadcopter … I mean, the list goes on and on.
Matter of fact, maybe HaD should have competitions more often, covering a range of techniques and fields — use sponsors for the rewards (and give them some advertising in exchange) and gain more traffic. “Free stuff” for the masses is always cool and helps ramp up website traffic and re-visitors (more impressions and acquisitions!)
Make the competition simple: a new “WordPress theme” or at least a .css and .js file to load some custom goodies for the current layout. The site already has structure…just some kickass css overriding !important fun.
Maybe include an “images” package, too – like the HaD logo in a high-res (w/ transparency) PNG.
…anyhoo…just an idea. ;)
Isn’t the current Slashdot layout from a competition? That actually worked out much better then anticipated.
Have you seen the new layout they’re proposing to move to.
http://beta.slashdot.org/
It makes me want to tear my eyes out with a dull spoon.
NOOOOOOOO it burns us!
damn, what a terrible layout.
That’s just awful… looks like the Gawker devs threw up on it!
don’t criticize people, it makes you a “troll”, don’t give suggestions, it makes you a “know it all”, don’t give any opinions, you’re not famous or wealthy..
LIKE A BOSS WAY: Make a hax0r WP theme and sale it on high-index sites and only allow positive comments publicly, and revision off the negative privately..
This has been a The Truth Hurts production.
Careful, Ferrari might sue you for ripping off their business strategy!
…what?
Why doesn’t Hackaday just create a Child Theme? If you do that, then even if WordPress makes an update, Hackaday won’t look different.
How to Create A Child Theme
The problem is that many wordpress themes use more than one stylesheet that cannot be accessed with child themes. Been there, done that.
Everything was fine until the hack a day nation attacked.
this is hack a day.
if you want style changes different flow or CSS the way you like it, get grease monkey and write your own style.
This ought to be the subject of the next FAIL of the Week article.
Genius XD
When HaD went white on me I found I could highlight text and see it then. But I quickly determined it wasn’t worth the effort. So I was this close >.< to unbookmarking this site …