AskMe Preferences Not Working

November 23, 2005 4:10 AM

No matter what I do in my preferences, the font on AskMefi seems to be stuck (on Times New Roman, I think). My settings work fine on Mefi/Meta, so I guess it must be something to do with the new layout.
posted by Orange Goblin to Bugs at 4:10 AM (12 comments total)

Must be! Browser? OS? Have you tried clearing your cache?
posted by Plutor at 4:59 AM on November 23, 2005

I've got the same issue
posted by leotrotsky at 5:19 AM on November 23, 2005

Leo: Same questions as before.
posted by Plutor at 5:35 AM on November 23, 2005

I have the same issue, I think, but in reverse. I changed my font size preferences, not the actual fonts displayed, but the change only went into effect for Ask and Metatalk, not The Blue. I've refreshed numerous times.
posted by emelenjr at 6:13 AM on November 23, 2005

Same thing is happening to me both at home and at work. Home = Firefox/Mac OS X; work = Firefox/Windows XP. Cache-clearing doesn't help in this instance.
posted by smich at 6:19 AM on November 23, 2005

Ditto what smich said, except with Firefox/Win2k at work and Firefox/Win2k-and-Linux at home. This has persisted across multiple cache-clearings and at least one restart.

Interestingly, when I try IE/Win2k (on my work computer), I have no such problem.
posted by box at 7:28 AM on November 23, 2005

It looks like the ask.metafilter style has been changed from font-family : "verdana", sans-serif;
to font-family:"verdana", which produces that change.
posted by sfenders at 7:31 AM on November 23, 2005

Me too!!!!!!!!!
posted by chunking express at 7:36 AM on November 23, 2005

Should be fixed now, I think.
posted by mathowie (staff) at 8:13 AM on November 23, 2005

I was having this problem too, but then I remembered that my browser was set to delete new cookies on exit and so I kept losing the cookie that set the font size (but the other MeFi cookies were protected).
posted by panoptican at 9:24 AM on November 23, 2005

It's back to normal now for me.
posted by sfenders at 9:46 AM on November 23, 2005

Yeah, it's fixed. Thanks!
posted by Orange Goblin at 10:01 AM on November 23, 2005