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Okay summary of my testing:

1. Four computers/laptops here - same issue

2. Two iPads - nothing appears at all in the sidebar with the only options to share hidden away at the bottom

3. Neighbours computer - fine!

I've tested several browser/screen resolution configurations and it appears to be a screen resolution problem (e.g. 1024px width is not enough). I'm sure Simon and Hans are trying how to best accommodate all possible end user scenarios without compromising our page load speed too much.

Hang in there, we will find a solution for this soon!

As for those of you who are not too keen on having the social widget, please consider the following:

- Not having it at across the top moves the content higher up. Higher is better.

- The widget is more likely to get noticed, and acted upon, when it is more prominent.

- It does not move around; it remains fixed while the rest of the page scrolls. The reader can "like" or bookmark at any time while reading your awesome article, not just at the beginning (when he/she hasn't read anything yet) or at the end (when they might be eager to move on).

- It's not necessarily forever. In order to remain fresh and interesting, things need to be switched around or modified from time to time. If it gets old after a while we might try something else.

- Sometimes we reject changes for subjective reasons. If that is the case perhaps you just need a bit time to warm up to it.

- If we truly missed the mark, and the majority agrees, then we're always flexible. ;)

I do appreciate what you do here and the efforts you make honestly

I also appreciate that there are a decreasing number of people that use a 1024 x 768 resolution - but we are still a sizeable proportion when you think in the millions of users and I am sure you will come up with a solution.  On some browsers the icons intrude into the page at that resolution and therefore make the text unreadable.

One thing worth mentioning is that there is no bottom scroll bar available when I am on a page so it's not even as if I can scroll to get at the icons

I have to admit that I do not like those scrolling sidebar thingys.  If I am going to click I will at the top or bottom and then I do not like having the bar in my face.   Just my opinion. 

We tested the button bar on Windows and Ubuntu. So far it works for us, but I heard that Mac users have problems too. If it does not work it helps if you tell us the browser version and the operating system. We try to fix the errors as soon as possible :-)

@Hans, I believe the problem is not with the type or version of the browser. It has to do with screen resolution.

A good tool to test what a site looks like in all sorts of scenarios is browsershots.org. Here's a sample what one of my pages looks like on 1024px screens with various browsers. (It can take more than an hour to get all the screen shots, some of those examples are still being generated).

As Paul has mentioned, there is no scroll bar at the bottom to view beyond the left edge either.

I thought I ought to share this - I managed to work out where to click to like an article but then the pop out box remained, in a faded form, on the page - I scrolled up and down and it followed me!  See screen capture below:

I'm having lots of trouble with the like button.

Today I visited some pages via the email that notifies me of new wizzes.

I'm still seeing the Amazon logo for the Like button. (Cache emptied several times. I use Chrome and am not switching to any other browser, for the record.)

Then when I click the Amazon logo, I get an error message that says to refresh the page. When I refresh the page, I see the pretty vertical buttons. Personally I think the Wizzley Like and the FB like are too similar, but at least I can see and use them. (I was also seeing a lot of overlap like some of the screenshots here, but that seems to have been cleared up.)



Why am I having to load each wizz 2xs to see the page as it should be presenting?

That looks much better!  Thanks for sticking with this and resolving it