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Title: why this error? Post by: bitnote on October 13, 2023, 04:04:27 PM Why do I get this error when I try to change the forum theme?
https://i.ibb.co/4jmjyvZ/error.png Title: Re: why this error? Post by: TryNinja on October 13, 2023, 04:05:57 PM The forum is now on a new server inside of a virtual machine with many extra security precautions which will hopefully provide some security in depth in case there are more exploits or backdoors. Also, I have disabled much SMF functionality to provide less attack surface. In particular, non-default themes are disabled for now. Title: Re: why this error? Post by: Hatchy on October 13, 2023, 04:09:38 PM You may want to try running this browser extension if you really desire to change your current theme
Bitcointalk Dark Theme (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2668798.msg51362151#msg51362151) There are also lots of amazing bots, add-ons and scripts you may also love to check out, you can install them on a desktop browser or on Android mobile using wiki browser or Firefox here's a link List of Bitcointalk.org Userscripts/ Add-ons / SMF patches (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5148488.0) Title: Re: why this error? Post by: PX-Z on October 13, 2023, 11:37:54 PM Simply because it was disabled? I guess there's no explanation needed for that, especially this is now a custom-made forum software.
Title: Re: why this error? Post by: DdmrDdmr on October 14, 2023, 07:58:20 AM <...> Themes were around back as early as 2011 (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=8692.msg126506#msg126506), though in 2014 themes other than the default one were already disabled. It seems that the code was difficult to maintain as depicted here (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=555087.msg6045130#msg6045130), although there are quite a bunch of post before then that verse on custom themes. I figure themes had many more implications than we can see on the surface, and are not limited to just visual makeup. For example, the extinct ads on the forum all stated that: Quote <…> Ads appear only on topic pages with more than one post, and only for people using the default theme. <…> See this post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=5216253.msg53564202#msg53564202) as a sample. This other post (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=51099.msg609097#msg609097) from 2011 already pointed to this fact.Anecdote: Even Satoshi left the default SMF theme (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=56272.msg669898#msg669898) for the Admin account in 2009 in case something went wrong modifying custom themes, which gives us an idea that they are non-trivial to manage, with broader implications than (could) meet the eye. |
