any way to delete this new black bar with choices? its annoying and looks bad IMO nt

[msongs]

[EarlG]

1. We have added nothing new

Can you give me some more details?

[msongs]

2. on latest discussions there is a black bar across the top under the start discussion button

that I have not noticed before. it lets u make changes. like the milestones are always showing now unless I turn them off which makes a red warning notice showing custom selections. before milestones always disappeared when I logged in and didnt have to turn them off.

[EarlG]

5. Hmm, not sure what to tell you

The black bar has always been there. It was introduced on mobile when DU4 was launched a year ago, but on desktop it’s been there since 2011.

If you change the settings the red notice should only appear once. On subsequent page loads it will still be there but it won’t be red.

Did you change your DU “mode” in Account Settings? If so, which mode are you currently using?

[sinkingfeeling]

3. At the top with 'Democratic Underground'?

[Attilatheblond]

4. Nope, it is under Latest Discussions and the options to Start a Discussion, Mark All, Most Recent, etc

I see it too, it's new. If Earl G didn't add it, where'd it come from?

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[EarlG]

6. This is a bit weird

That black bar has been there since 2011 and was not changed when DU4 was launched in 2023. But some people are just seeing it for the first time today? We have not made any changes to our code recently…. I’ll have to look into this further.

[Attilatheblond]

7. Put me in the 'never saw this before' column

[EarlG]

8. Still baffled here

This has never been reported as a problem before, but today two people reported it at the same time. We didn't change anything, but it seems that *something* changed (it might be something to do with our ad provider and the way their code interacts with ours).

But then, if lots of people were not seeing this bar previously and then they suddenly all saw it today, I think a lot more people would report it to me...

Right now it seems like you two are the only people who experienced this, because nobody else has reported it. As it stands, you're now seeing the site as it's supposed to be seen, so oddly enough I guess this is actually a fix rather than a problem.

We'll keep looking into it though, I'll see if anyone else reports it.

[Attilatheblond]

9. Might it have anything to do with our personal browser settings that previously blocked that item and now doesn't block?

[EarlG]

10. I'm not sure

It's not impossible. You would both have to have the same browser with an extension or a specific setting which was blocking that page element, and then something happened (Browser update? Extension update?) which changed that setting for both of you at the same time, unblocking the element. But it seems unlikely.

I'm just not sure why that element would be getting blocked in the first place, there's nothing particularly special about it.