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.

[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.)