Links List on switching layouts

[sharpiefan]

Title:
Links List on switching layouts

Area:
links lists

Summary:
If a user has more than 10 links (including blank spaces for headers) in their links list, on switching layouts, a user loses links 11 onwards. Could there be some way to change things so that a user doesn't lose links?

Description:
If a user has more than 10 links (including blank spaces for headers) in their links list, on switching layouts, a user loses links 11 onwards. Could there be some way to change things so that a user doesn't lose links? I recently changed layouts, not realising that I'd lose a good portion of my links list in doing so, and I don't suppose I'm the only one - and I don't know if there's any way to go back and get them again.

Poll #8392 Links List on switching layouts

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 53

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Should be implemented as-is.
40 (75.5%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
0 (0.0%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
12 (22.6%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.9%)

Comments

[pleonasm]

I think this must be a bug, because LJ doesn't do this. I used to keep more than 10 links in my linklist and change my layout a lot, and never lost anything.

[foxfirefey]

I agree--if this is happening it is a bug plain and simple and should be fixed!

[sharpiefan]

I agree with pleonasm; I never found that I lost links when switching layouts in LJ, so I was rather startled to find I'd lost eight or nine links, easily, once I switched DW layouts.

Haven't a clue how to report something as a bug... although I am feeling rather impressed that I've managed to find a bug at all, even by mistake! I take my hat off to all the coders who fix things like this so clueless folks like me can use DW.

[azurelunatic]

For bugs in general, file a support request, and someone who knows the ins and outs of the issue tracker will poke around, investigate (and in the case of stuff that's caused by a non-obvious setting, let you know about it), and make sure that it gets put in front of devs to get fixed.

[sharpiefan]

Thanks! Have done so. Here's hoping nobody else gets caught out and loses more than I did!

[arethinn]

Switching back to the layout you started with may possibly recover the links? I've found it sometimes recovers other things like custom colors. (Like, the system seems to have cached the settings you had in place at the last time you used layout X, and if you switch to some other layout and then return to layout X, it reinstates your tweaks.)

[matgb]

All your styles are cached by the system and can be found from:
http://www.dreamwidth.org/customize/advanced/styles

We're planning on revamping that page and making it more user friendly at some point (hopefully).

But the links list is, theoretically, separate from the Style, and shouldn't be getting lost, at all. This is a bug, and one I'd not seen before, it may be linked to free/paid status, but I forget off hand how many links a free account get.

[arethinn]

All your styles are cached by the system and can be found from:

Well hey. The More You Know!

[sharpiefan]

I know the styles are cached (and think that's fantastic!). I had an idea that the links list is separate from the Style, so thanks for confirming that.

I've got a paid journal, and although it did lapse for a brief time (a day or so) I switched layouts after I went back to Paid status. And I never went up to whatever the Paid maximum is anyway, only using up another seven or eight spaces.

I managed to restore the lost links because I'd linked to them elsewhere, but I'm not sure I got all of them, and it may well happen to someone else who can't remember all their links.

Edit: I have reported it as a bug, as suggested, so I'm pretty sure it's going to get looked into. I love DW - everyone's so nice! :D

[matgb]

Hmm, I wonder.

Currently, my account isn't paid (haven't got around to going to the right page, will do it in a bit). I know that when I repay, I also have to go to the icon upload page to remind it I'm allowed 100 icons.

I wonder if this might be a similar thing, it sounds like it. Regardless, it's definitely a bug that needs fixing.