I don't think any other website I go to overrides my cursor and I don't understand why this one does. Especially when it is a relatively minor change for some but could be overriding essential accessibility settings for others.
If this is of any help, Snover's words about the custom cursor are in (the middle of) this large post.
I don't think any other website I go to overrides my cursor and I don't understand why this one does. Especially when it is a relatively minor change for some but could be overriding essential accessibility settings for others.
If this is of any help, Snover's words about the custom cursor are in (the middle of) this large post.
Thanks, I hadn't seen that before.
And, it's totally okay for the person designing the forum theme to do quirky things if they choose, but... he did mention that time would tell whether browsers would fix the website cursor scaling thing, so he may not have to do anything about it... but it is now a 5 years later. It seems unlikely that they are going to fix this, so it would be nice for those that have trouble with it to be able to just click a button in their site preferences.
The biggest thing for me is just the text selection cursor when using the old color scheme. It has white and black lines next to each other which become light gray on just about any display when you move the cursor. The text box background is close to light gray in the old color scheme, so the cursor becomes invisible when you move it. With the standard Windows 10 text cursor the color is inverted so it is always visible regardless of the background.
The ugly part of disabling custom cursor here is that the "hand" cursor for links doesn't work anymore. Everything is the plain ordinary "arrow". Links are not links for whatever reason here.
This forum's front-end devs have spent extra time to make something worse. Extra time, i remind you...
EDIT: I used chatgpt based on the mentioned css adjustments in a referred post to create adblock custom rules. (i use uBlock Origin myself) Seems to work.
And kudos for that snippet - it actually overrides all links as well to have the "hand" symbol in proper places. From earlier i used a shorter snippet that just removed all custom cursors and made everything into an "arrow" pointer.
I went an extra step and added "text" cursor for ordinary text on the page as well. That override was missing from the original overrides.
If somebody puts so much time and effort into custom cursors, why isn't there a checkbox in profile to enable/disable custom cursor? Then everybody can choose their preference and nobody would bring it up anymore.
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GigAHerZwrote on 2025-01-10, 11:03:The ugly part of disabling custom cursor here is that the "hand" cursor for links doesn't work anymore. Everything is the plain […] Show full quote
The ugly part of disabling custom cursor here is that the "hand" cursor for links doesn't work anymore. Everything is the plain ordinary "arrow". Links are not links for whatever reason here.
This forum's front-end devs have spent extra time to make something worse. Extra time, i remind you...
EDIT: I used chatgpt based on the mentioned css adjustments in a referred post to create adblock custom rules. (i use uBlock Origin myself) Seems to work.
And kudos for that snippet - it actually overrides all links as well to have the "hand" symbol in proper places. From earlier i used a shorter snippet that just removed all custom cursors and made everything into an "arrow" pointer.
I went an extra step and added "text" cursor for ordinary text on the page as well. That override was missing from the original overrides.
Oh my goodness, thank you! Yes, I forgot to mention that just blocking the cursors the other way would get rid of the finger-cursor for links. In my case, I had a uBlock rule already that blocked the arrow which meant that I would get a TEXT cursor when I hovered over links, which was pretty annoying too. I just pasted your code into uBlock Origin and everything is normal now.
I would totally use the Windows 95 cursors if the text cursor stood out better with the old school color scheme (just using the invert colors would do it) and the others worked basically normally, but I know that for others the lack of scaling is a much bigger problem.
I copied the selector from the web page's CSS, so it should only undo what web page set. Didn't see the issue with links, cursor changed properly to hand here.
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Some time ago i also proposed a feature of "Kudos" or "Appreciation". A positive-only rating system for posts.
For example, i would thank every post in List of Currently Free Games when a game is posted there.
"640K ought to be enough for anybody." - And i intend to get every last bit out of it even after loading every damn driver!
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If somebody puts so much time and effort into custom cursors, why isn't there a checkbox in profile to enable/disable custom cursor? Then everybody can choose their preference and nobody would bring it up anymore.
+1 on this. It's so simple to end the debate about the custom cursor.
Some time ago i also proposed a feature of "Kudos" or "Appreciation". A positive-only rating system for posts.
For example, i would thank every post in List of Currently Free Games when a game is posted there.
I was recently banned for not having a reachable email address. It turned out to be a short glitch on my provider's server as I am still using the same email now. Could there be like an extra attempt some minutes or maybe hours later before banning? It can't be the only email server ever having a short glitch? 😀
If it's dual it's kind of cool ... 😎
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Same happened to me. I suddenly found myself banned for no apparent reason, although email was mentioned in the cryptic message. All attempts to email the admins was met with silence. So I gave up.
5 months later I decided to try signing on, and amazingly it worked. So luckily I was able to get back here.
Just now I got a message from this forum to say I should press Ctrl Alt Delete and reboot my computer, that error 500 had occurred, and click here to go to the index page (which is where I had attempted to go to in the first place). What's going on?
