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jmbi
Long time nixers
It's the summer of 2014 and we're doing some pretty major overhauls around here. We're working on a light theme for the forums, it will be a much cleaner and simpler look for the place and we think it's a step up. For some other things we wanted to ask you guys for your opinions.

Some things I am thinking about removing:
  • "Thank" button and function, most of the time we end up saying thanks anyways.
  • "Posts: #", "Joined: x", "Thanks: x Given: x" from the right side of the poster header.
Please give me your input and let me know what else you would want changed. Thanks.
meh
yrmt
Grey Hair Nixers
I would agree about the thanks feature, since we talk about most threads on IRC or just comment.
Nihility
Members
a breath of fresh air, I like it
venam
Administrators
Is it suppose to look like that [Image: cUXduza.png].
Nihility
Members
looks ok to me

[Image: NNH5]

[Image: LH7]
venam
Administrators
It looks like the background-color is not set so it takes the default background-color of the browser.
yrmt
Grey Hair Nixers
We're still looking for a good light background.
z3bra
Grey Hair Nixers
Some aspects looks shitty to me:
  • GIF icons do not display (I get 404 on everything in http://nixers.net/images)
  • I can't see the difference between old threads and threads with a new post
  • There is two "Quote" buttons
  •  The "NIXERS" link is not displayed if you're not logged in
  • The eternal problem of images that don't fit the fixed size

Otherwise, I like this new theme. It looks more welcoming to me. Will see how it goes on the long term

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BANGARANG, MOTHERFUCKER
jmbi
Long time nixers
weird... I'll add support for shitty other browsers later today. What browsers are you guys using?
z3bra
Grey Hair Nixers
dwb 10char
BANGARANG, MOTHERFUCKER
jmbi
Long time nixers
It seems we have figured out the problem:

User CP > Edit Options > Thread View Options > "View posts in classic mode" should be <font color="red"><b>DISABLED</b></font>
yrmt
Grey Hair Nixers
I'll set it up as a default.
yrmt
Grey Hair Nixers
hmm, I still need help to find a good tiled light background image
Derby
Long time nixers
I actually preferred the white background image and slightly darker posts.
jmbi
Long time nixers
(11-06-2014, 09:58 AM)Derby Wrote: I actually preferred the white background image and slightly darker posts.
as did I, one less image file to load as well.
jmbi
Long time nixers
(11-06-2014, 06:58 AM)z3bra Wrote:
  • GIF icons do not display (I get 404 on everything in http://nixers.net/images)
  • There is two "Quote" buttons
  • The "NIXERS" link is not displayed if you're not logged in
  • The eternal problem of images that don't fit the fixed size
fixed. now i'm working on:
  • I can't see the difference between old threads and threads with a new post
hades
Long time nixers
(11-06-2014, 11:49 AM)jmbi Wrote:
(11-06-2014, 09:58 AM)Derby Wrote: I actually preferred the white background image and slightly darker posts.
as did I, one less image file to load as well.
Solution: Use a css3-generated background pattern instead of an image. And make it gracefully fall back to a plaincolor background in browsers where css3 isn't implemented.

Edit: Found a perfect site to help with that: http://lea.verou.me/css3patterns/

CSS3 really is amazing.
jmbi
Long time nixers
(11-06-2014, 06:19 PM)dbcooper Wrote:
(11-06-2014, 11:49 AM)jmbi Wrote:
(11-06-2014, 09:58 AM)Derby Wrote: I actually preferred the white background image and slightly darker posts.
as did I, one less image file to load as well.
Solution: Use a css3-generated background pattern instead of an image. And make it gracefully fall back to a plaincolor background in browsers where css3 isn't implemented.

Edit: Found a perfect site to help with that: http://lea.verou.me/css3patterns/

CSS3 really is amazing.
thanks for the link and input, i'll try it out!
berk
Long time nixers
Looks great!
yrmt
Grey Hair Nixers
(14-06-2014, 07:38 AM)berk Wrote: Looks great!

How come you're not on IRC anymore? :)
yrmt
Grey Hair Nixers
The new posts have a distinct color now :)
berk
Long time nixers
(14-06-2014, 08:26 AM)yrmt Wrote:
(14-06-2014, 07:38 AM)berk Wrote: Looks great!

How come you're not on IRC anymore? :)

I'm back now!