I just feel there's too much white color now, the posts background and the entire background of the site. Looks kinda uncomfortable to explore. Maybe if the site background was greyish a little bit ? A darker degree of the degree used in the user stats box.
Welcome to the new XenForo 2 site
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Maybe make the staff banner stand out a bit more too
Yeah could work. Although does the current splash of orangey gold not make it stand out quite well already?
These are the same colour combinations from the old design. Are you sure there's more white now? With the fluid width much of the lighter white(ish) background should be covered. It is definitely more grey than it was.
Dunno, I just think it doesn't quite fit with the general site theme. Which reminds me:
The Scout background no longer shows up as it is the same colour as the new user info (I think). Maybe give the Staff background to the Scouts and a new one for the Staff. Or have the Scout one as white background.
Nice! Must be a blag doing this design by jury
Have you updated the favicon for mobile devices etc? I like to add a shortcut to the site on my phone home screen so would be cool to see the new logo icon there.@Niall is there any way we could have a link to “unread watched threads” under the Quick Navigation bit at the bottom of the page? It was always the first thing I hit after reading down through a thread.
Scout with white background:
What about solid gold with black text for Staff?Dunno, I just think it doesn't quite fit with the general site theme. Which reminds me:
The Scout background no longer shows up as it is the same colour as the new user info (I think). Maybe give the Staff background to the Scouts and a new one for the Staff. Or have the Scout one as white background.
Agree with this, it's a lot lighter. Wonder if there is a dark/night theme that users can switch to?
Or I could just have solid gold just for myself. I think that would be fair.
Is there any way to make quoted posts that contain images not look so completely shit?
That's a screenshot taken from an old thread.
I kinda get why I feel the difference despite the the same color using as the previous one. That grey border at the edges and the big red line on the top of each post made it looks better. That red line is now a lot thinner and nearly non existent hence I feel it becomes more "whitish" than it used to be. That grey border also helped.
Fantastic work @Niall and honestly thank you so much for keeping such an awesome forum running and to all that help you. Login is still a bit hit and miss and I don't get (or at least can't see alerts). Hope this helps!
Done. I replaced "What's New" (nobody uses that right?). There is no "Unread Watched Threads" page in XF2 from what I can see. Just the Watched Threads page but most recently updated threads will appear at the top I believe.
That's a screenshot taken from an old thread.
I kinda get why I feel the difference despite the the same color using as the previous one. That grey border at the edges and the big red line on the top of each post made it looks better. That red line is now a lot thinner and nearly non existent hence I feel it becomes more "whitish" than it used to be. That grey border also helped.
Ok, I see what you mean. I'll have a think.
Scout with white background:
Nice, will do that. A more solid gold is better for staff as well. We're important after all
Perfect!
@Damien the Twitter account avatar needs updating too
I keep getting an error message when I try and quote or multi quote
Seems to be the online indicator that's taking up too much space and kinda doesn't look right to me. I think the tagline would look neat under the username like when offline.
Yes that's a long standing issue. Will get it sorted (probably).
i cant find the mark all read button on laptop
Good luck.
Do you mean something like this?
I actually quite like that with the overlapping red header. Wasn't exactly what I was trying to achieve but I changed a setting in the style and that happened!
There will be an outer grey background, like the old site so it will definitely look less white.
What do people think?
Within the "Forum" section, black sub-navigation bar, last link?
Is it just me that the WYSIWYG editor isn't working properly for? It was working fine when the Caf opened up again, but stopped shortly after.
Can you move the Follow Us on Twitter box at the bottom of the page to the left side? Where it is on the right it looks like an Outlook notification and makes me think I'm at work. Thanks.
Nevermind I had it turned off apparently using that cog button
I've been playing around with some of the custom styles and changed a few more things to my liking but there is one more thing. Does anyone know how to change the height of the elements that contain the thread titles in the sub-forums? Not the font size but the padding/spacing. I'm guessing it's under .structItem{}?
Looks like it's the "structItem-title" class.
Do you mean something like this?
I actually quite like that with the overlapping red header. Wasn't exactly what I was trying to achieve but I changed a setting in the style and that happened!
There will be an outer grey background, like the old site so it will definitely look less white.
What do people think?
This looks far better !
Great job on getting it running this fast, must have been a herculean task.
Every post being in it's own table will take some getting used to though. I've already forgotten how it used to be but somehow it felt smoother reading from one post to the next. Might take a day or two to get used to.
And I would second @el3mel, that looks great.
Every post being in it's own table will take some getting used to though. I've already forgotten how it used to be but somehow it felt smoother reading from one post to the next. Might take a day or two to get used to.
And I would second @el3mel, that looks great.
you probably just put it there once i asked in order to make me look stupid
Making you look stupid doesn’t require that much effort, boobies.
yeah i suppose youd just have to edit my posts to say that the tesla truck looks cool
I feel I must jump in to criticise the free thing I use whenever I want which has been changed in a way that doesn't match exactly how I would have changed it.
structItemContainer specifically. Made some adjustments to increase visibility and looks like this now:
The new mobile appearance is a big improvement btw.
Thank you for not choosing the emojis! Too much sentimental value in the original ones (don’t change them but add new ones! )
Two notes: I find the red a bit too bright red on the screen. Also, would it be possible to implement a “dark” mode?
)Two notes: I find the red a bit too bright red on the screen. Also, would it be possible to implement a “dark” mode?
Wow its awful
Prefer the old interface. Seemed more focused on user content.
The features/look detract from it a bit, distractions and that.
But this is only a first impression.
The features/look detract from it a bit, distractions and that.
But this is only a first impression.