You may have noticed that since around Thursday 9 July, your reputation bar – the row of little green (or, hopefully not, red) boxes that appear below your name, post count, and locations in the left margin of your posts – and those of everybody else, were maxed at 5 dim and 6 bright boxes.
This was due to an accidental change to the forum software. It’s fixed now.
We (Hypography’s mods, admins, and dev team staff) also used the fix to update the rep bar generating rules to more accurately display reputation, avoiding the problem of rep bars shooting up past 5 green boxes after a new member gets a single “I approve” from a high-rep member, and many (21, to be precise) high-rep members having maxed out bars.
For many of us, this means that our rep bars are one or two boxes lower than they were a week ago. This doesn’t indicate that your rep has decreased, only that the scale has been adjusted. It also means that, if you now have less than 11 green boxes, you can again gain boxes as you receive the accolades of your fellow hypographers.
Please feel free to post questions or discussion in this thread.
