I was annoyed that the anchors to the left of all the sections was no longer working. I spent way too much time trying to track it down. As best I can tell something in jekyll's theme behavior (gem-based themes) combined with our use of "remote themes" and then customizing those themes was no longer pulling in my custom _layouts/default.html. By copying the other theme files for home.html and page.html it now works.
My best guess is when the theme is loaded it is looking relative to the home and page layout files and pulling in the upstream default.html instead of my/our custom version.
I was annoyed that the anchors to the left of all the sections was no longer working. I spent way too much time trying to track it down. As best I can tell something in jekyll's theme behavior (gem-based themes) combined with our use of "remote themes" and then customizing those themes was no longer pulling in my custom
_layouts/default.html. By copying the other theme files forhome.htmlandpage.htmlit now works.My best guess is when the theme is loaded it is looking relative to the home and page layout files and pulling in the upstream
default.htmlinstead of my/our custom version.This fixes the issue for now.