A few style suggestions

[LasseK]

First of all you want the top bar to look full screen width without adjusting width for the entire site.

–header_background: #f2f2f2;

Next up: playing with full colour framing and spacing around avatars and names and aligning them can aesthetically really become pleasing. Cramped content becomes unpleasant for people, dont be afraid of empty space. Very simple example where i am hacking the stylesheet in Chrome:

Slightly coloring headlines, names and everything thats not normal text can really bring life to something that quickly just becomes white/grey/black boxes. Very rough example with me typing in random colors here. But with a proper color scheme it could work wonders:

Some things in my screenshots will look off as i was just hacking away, but hopefully it is useful ideas.

Can i mention the logo without getting banned?

[ToddFrench]

making sure @JulianDevlin sees these - slick stuff!

[LasseK]

Just for reference then i played around with style changes in:

.topic_avatar
.topic-meta-data .names
.posts-wrapper

and probably a few i forgot.

[ToddFrench]

@LasseK

Can i mention the logo without getting banned?

I have only temp logos up for now, mention at will, feel free to email your thoughts or PM them if you prefer

[CFu]

@LasseK

–header_background: #f2f2f2;

Next up: playing with full colour framing and spacing around avatars and names and aligning them can aesthetically really become pleasing. Cramped content becomes unpleasant for people, dont be afraid of empty space. Very simple example where i am hacking the stylesheet in Chrome:

I brought this up earlier today, we weren’t sure how to implement it, so thank you!

[LasseK]

@BRooks

Agreed, although there’s definitely a balance point here. I’ve seen too many sites where the empty space makes a page look nice while it’s just sitting on screen, but it hampers usability by adding to the amount of scrolling needed and overly limiting what you can read on screen at once.

Completely agree. Usability first and then you make it look as nice as possible afterwards.

[LasseK]

@CFu

I brought this up earlier today, we weren’t sure how to implement it, so thank you!

If in doubt, it is found in the color_definitions.scss file

[ToddFrench]

@LasseK

@CFu

I brought this up earlier today, we weren’t sure how to implement it, so thank you!

If in doubt, it is found in the color_definitions.scss file

Check your pm

[CFu]

if you check out “sam’s” theme - it removes the bubbles and changes it to text

[JulianDevlin]

you can’t within the site options - this is all back end / site config.

there are however ways to override site settings via your browser, if you are very motivated to…

[Andrew_K]

The grape colored font is very bad on dark mode. It’s in several places.

[Stephen_Faulkner]

Sorry if this is in a faq somewhere but, at the moment, the amount of tweaking and suggestions/solutions being posted makes it hard to find specific items. How do I change the font color to replicate what Lasse has done? The grey shades are difficult to distinguish so this would be a major improvement for me.

Thanks to Todd, Charlie, and the team for all the hard work to make this better!

[ToddFrench]

@Stephen_Faulkner

Sorry if this is in a faq somewhere but, at the moment, the amount of tweaking and suggestions/solutions being posted makes it hard to find specific items. How do I change the font color to replicate what Lasse has done? The grey shades are difficult to distinguish so this would be a major improvement for me.

Thanks to Todd, Charlie, and the team for all the hard work to make this better!

We didn’t end up putting these colors in one of the theme options, but perhaps there’s a way to do so, add another - it’s just tricky to keep adding more when the test site was up for this very reason, and we might end up with quite a few based on everyone’s personal preferences. Funny the old site had one option, that’s it, and we have so many combinations now but people want more!

[LasseK]

We still need to do some tweaking. There is certainly still a few things that could be improved, but it takes time to get right and time is not what i have most of sadly hehe.

[Stephen_Faulkner]

Thanks, Todd. I know it is a thankless task to try to accommodate everyone’s suggestions. I was asking because it seemed like Lasse’s suggested fix was an easy one (not knowing any better). It was never an issue on the old site because the contrast was easy to see with the one option. The current shades of gray is much harder. I’m not a fan of dark mode.