Just for grins, if you want to view the MG forums stripped of all formatting, try: http://www.mercenariesguild.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,25/

Somehow I had gotten this saved as a bookmark, and discovered that after starting here you can navigate all over the place without ever running across a shred of decoration.  I'm posting this from a naked window right now.  Just the ticket for people who program in hexadecimal rather than python.

If you want no styling

Khalsa

Unfortunately, I'm a non-member, so I get an "off limits" error on that one.

I'm betting that some people don't know, so: we have that page for text based browsers and cell phones.

Yeah, about that... I noticed that when I visit www.mercenariesguild.net and log in, I see on the right hand side some useful links, among them is "show unread posts since last visit." Thinking to myself, "oh, how helpful! I shall avail myself of this most useful link!" I clicked on the link, only to find to my dismay, that I could indeed view said posts as normal, with the glaring difference that they had been stripped of their CSS and were therefore most confusing to read.

The url of the aforementioned link is thus:
http://www.mercenariesguild.net/component/option,com_smf/Itemid,25/action,unread/lang,en/

...and I'm no web developer, but I have a feeling that the offending part is the "/option,com_smf/Itemid,25/" as this part also appears in the example URL given in the first post of this very topic.

While I'm sure that there is a very good reason for providing one's unread posts without their accompanying CSS, it is most annoying to those of us regular folk who view the webforums through the website itself, rather than some obscure console based-sorcery or in the minute screen of a cell phone (although why anyone would wish to torture themself so is beyond me). Perhaps this could be changed so that the link in question points to a normal webpage, CSS included, and those who wish to view their unread posts in a more esoteric and/or "manly" fashion can have their own link?

This would be most appreciated, seeing as it would render an otherwise unusable feature rather useful again.

evets

http://www.mercenariesguild.net/forum/index.php?action=unread

The reason that other link looks bad is because it's passing through the content management system on the front of the site; the one I just gave here links directly into SMF's "Unread Posts" page and looks much nicer (and is, in fact, one of the startup pages I have in Firefox).

Ah thanks so much roc!

...but still, the thing on the the front page should be fixed/changed IMHO. Thanks anyways.

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