Who changed the default home page display settings to do this?

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Okay, this is really dumb, but since opening the site on Chrome a few minutes ago, now the 'Site & Scene News' section on my custom home page only displays 4 news items. It was NOT like this 3 hours ago. Did someone change a default CSS config somewhere? If so, this is a bad idea since sometimes there are more than just 4 news items in one hour (E3, PAX, Tokyo Game Show, etc.), and requiring users to check the forums for the full news experience is just a bad idea in general.

Edit: I guess my account server-side is glitched. Read the entire thread for details.
 
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Did you change how many items are displayed?

Go to the customize page again, and click the settings icon next to "News". You should be able to set the number of items in the block.
That's the thing, I haven't touched the display settings in over 6 months.

Edit: Must be a glitch with the settings for my account, then...

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It's still set to 7.
 

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Interesting, does it change when you set it to a higher number?
I increased it by 1, and now it's displaying 5 news items... Something is definitely broken in my account..

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I set it to 3 (the minimum), and now it only shows 1...

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Since changing it to 3, I changed it to 7 again, and it's displaying 4 again... Help, please!
 

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Clear cache and cookies? Is it only happening on Chrome and nothing else? Do you have another device to check it on?

I can't seem to reproduce it on any of my devices, so likely a weird issue on your end.

@shaunj66 @Costello, are you breaking things? :P
Same issue in MS Edge, which I've never logged in on before.
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Tried just about every device and on every browser I've got sitting around here and I can't get that to happen.

That is a tragically low amount of news :(
 

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Tried just about every device and on every browser I've got sitting around here and I can't get that to happen.

That is a tragically low amount of news :(
I think my account server-side got glitched somehow, then. Can @shaunj66 or @Costello look at my internal account data and see what's up? And preferably fix it?
 

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Yes as Chary mentioned due to an influx of reviews we had to hide some from the frontpage which resulted in fewer news articles for some users with a setting for an already low amount of news. The situation will resolve itself shortly.
 
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