Date: 2008-07-05 16:25 Subject: D'oh! Security: Public Current Mood: disappointed

Whenever someone does a voice post, it completely clobbers my custom Scrabble LJ theme. I've never gotten around to finding and fixing whatever bug in my hacked up S2 code causes it. I usually just switch over to a new theme then switch back when the voice post moves off my first friends page.

This just happened for the first time in several months, and in the meantime, LJ has come up with a much cleaner way of switching themes. They give you a nice list of theme types, one of which is "your custom layers". Cool. Switched to a different one, no muss, no fuss.

Came time to switch back, I told it to apply my custom theme, and BOOM, I'm right back at the unadorned "Refried Paper" theme, on which mine was based.

I've got a backup of my mods someplace, but I think instead of searching all over for them, I'll make a new one using a different base theme. Refried Paper had a lot of quirks in it that "Expressive," "Flexible Squares," etc., don't. And the code is very unmodular; I found myself copying huge functions just to make one-line changes that should rightly have been parameterized out.

But the whole point of this is that if you have customizations you want to keep, make backup copies before you switch, because they may disappear into the LJ ether...