Purple links going back to blue?

Submitted by akjlddkjslfsd on January 26, 2026
It might be just me, but it looks like some purple visited links on the site have reverted back to blue on at least two occasions, in a mere few days. This didn't seem to have happened before.

Any clue why it's happening?

(I don't remember doing anything to the browser settings)

7 Comments
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Level 72
Jan 26, 2026
This happens all the time to me. Idk what causes it.
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Level 81
Jan 26, 2026
If you haven't visited a page in a while, its link will revert to blue.
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Level 56
Jan 26, 2026
But it didn't seem to do that before. Has the site itself changed or am I unaware of some browser setting getting tweaked without my knowledge?

The latter is possible, since browsers these days automatically update and sometimes tweak their settings silently. Speaking of, Microsoft Edge recently forced that ugly round corner thing on pages, much to my annoyance.

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Level 71
Jan 26, 2026
It happens every few months, maybe once a year.

Coincidentially, it happened to me for my own account name around my JetPunkaniverary, and the second time, so half a year is a valid guess for me.

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Level 56
Jan 26, 2026
Oh, okay. That seems like a reasonable explanation.

Maybe the timespan is different for me? I was inactive for one and a half years and only resumed activity in October last year, so I'm guessing it resets every 3 months?

(Those two links were different if I remember correctly, so it's entirely possible they just happened to reset around the same time)

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Level 75
Jan 26, 2026
Probably browser history clearing itself
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Level 71
Jan 26, 2026
That's also a reasonable explanation