Custom CSS and Bug Reports

[pahakuukkeli]

I use custom CSS to turn turn-based game notes font to Courier New (fixed width font makes tile counts clearer in Azul).

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#turnbased_notes_content {
  font-family:"Courier New";
  font-size:inherit;
  font-size:120%;
  font-weight:inherit
}

With this custom CSS I can't open any bug report. There's just an unexpected error "You cannot access this section because you are using some custom CSS (see Preferences > Advanced)." That seems very odd to me. If the bug reports aren't meant to support custom CSS, then why don't they just load without it?

[RicardoRix]

I presume that BGA (rightly or wrongly) think that if you're using custom CSS, then your bug might be due to that.
Would be a whole lot better if the bug report just contained that information.

[GTSchemer]

Speaking as a developer, yes, the games I make have TONS of detailed CSS. If someone submits a suggestion or bug, but has custom CSS / an extension that change things, the problem may be due to that.

Since there are already tons of false bug reports on BGA, and volunteer maintainers have very little time to keep processing them all, anything which reduces the number of reports is nice.

You can temporarily copy and paste your custom CSS in notepad or something, submit the report, then add it back.

[pahakuukkeli]

Speaking as a developer, yes, the games I make have TONS of detailed CSS. If someone submits a suggestion or bug, but has custom CSS / an extension that change things, the problem may be due to that.

Since there are already tons of false bug reports on BGA, and volunteer maintainers have very little time to keep processing them all, anything which reduces the number of reports is nice.

You can temporarily copy and paste your custom CSS in notepad or something, submit the report, then add it back.

For this reason, I'd understand if I couldn't submit a bug report with custom CSS on but why can't I even read them? There are lots "bug reports" that are actually requests for added/changed functionality in games, and it's extremely annoying to constantly cut & paste my CSS to read (or even vote for) them.

So, at the very least the custom CSS page should say that you can't submit or read bug reports while using it. And if that "functionality" is intended, there should be a checkbox to turn custom css on or off.