Strange things happening in flair territory

There is an option on one’s profile in preferences for “Flair”

Anybody can now set it :slight_smile: But there is only one option

I’m fairly sure that it hasn’t been user accessible very long - things disappear from the menus like the User Activity and Badges options and the Forum Rules (Which is still broken because the destination doesn’t exist - the link I copied here is from the footer of every page since it’s now gone from the menus as the fix for the ticket)

So something appearing isn’t a great surprise either :slight_smile:

I know for a fact that after it showed up it disappeared for a while and then showed up again. It’s there at the time of writing…
Something else that has disappeared but hasn’t shown up again are the Site Stats on the About page

At one point the flair put an orange “Z” on ones avatar, then a purple S, then an anchor, yesterday it was green and black concentric circles and today it is a red circle with a black fizzing bomb!

The only way I know to set the graphic associated with the flair is through an admin action

So perhaps at the time spent tweaking the graphic associated with the flare maybe the multiplier on likes available to TL3 could be up lifted to the same level or higher as set on TL4 - Pretty please


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Update - the ghost in the machine is still abroad

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And an update to the update…

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Up up up-d8

Flair setting option has gone again

Software is deterministic. While the length of the path and the number of influences may be beyond an observer’s ability to correlate cause and effect the fact is all the effects are caused by people’s actions.

So intended or not someone has been turning it on and off.

I couldn’t login to the forum on my phone at the weekend. A hypothesis is that the flare graphic was deleted and the flare setting on my profile was causing a hang on trying to open the required file - least way that’s a plausable explanation to somebody who’s been in software development on and off since 79. Then it was put back and all sorts of other shenanigans and now it’s gone and the flare setting has gone…

Cest la vie

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Mine is now plain orange, wonder what they’re trying to do :thinking:

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