Community Update.

[Metal]

I should of said it is like a Alpha and Beta.

They are testing it and seeing if things work.

[König]

We shouldn't be alt-tabbing.

 

If anyone is it should be people reporting a problem/checking it out and being presented with a concise and welcoming site.

 

I'm not saying that the dark scheme doesn't work, I'm saying it's ugly.

 

Gotcha. Well to each his own my friend.

 

The color theme I would agree with. As I have said before. We need to trim everything down and introduce natural earthen tones as a theme. Make it simple and easy on the eyes.

[Hazardous]

A lighter more sleek theme would be nice.

[TheVirus]

A lighter more sleek theme would be nice.

 

I'm all for more themes, but they can't be half-assed. I'd rather have 1 really nice theme than 2 'meh' ones.

[Lemonstein]

bump @ old work:

 

dark theme

http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/3214/frontpage.png

 

light theme

http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/443/lightfrontpagecopy.png

 

 

we should bring back the pink lol

[König]

bump @ old work:

 

dark theme

http://img835.imageshack.us/img835/3214/frontpage.png

 

light theme

http://img821.imageshack.us/img821/443/lightfrontpagecopy.png

 

 

we should bring back the pink lol

 

The first one looks fucking sweet.

 

This is what I think we should do. Something along these lines.

 

http://www.q101.com/

[Astrum]

Anyway, the dark theme is tacky. I know it's a gaming forum but it has the sort of colour scheme a 13 year old would pick when they found out you could change the Deus Ex menu. Seriously, it's incredibly ugly in my opinion (and a hell of a lot of others when we switched to it) and doesn't make us anymore "hardcore" than a normal theme would. I don't even remember there being any discussion when it was changed, either.

 

Has nothing to do with being "hardcore". A lot of people prefer a darker theme for readability. Hell, look at my terminal window compared to the default. I find the first much easier on my eyes and way more readable:

 

 

If you don't like a dark colored theme because you think we're trying to be "hardcore" then deal with it. If you don't like it because you find white more readable, then you're in the minority, but we'll look into a secondary theme. Problem is we don't exactly have the best graphic designers in the world around here. I can only do so much since I'm more of a programmer. Initially the theme will have a very similar color scheme as this site. We'll look into a secondary one but it's not going to happen over night.

 

Again, back to my point - why do we think the forum is the most important place? Hopefully the new one will deal with the state the sections are in and they'll be rearranged but it would be a lot easier on the eyes if we just used a normal theme. It is just a forum, don't forget. It's supposed to be in parallel with the servers, not the main important thing..

 

In case you missed every post from the last year, that's why we're moving to a CMS. Having said that nothing is going to be perfect when the site launches. We have very few people competent to do this sort of stuff and they're all busy with their real life, me included.

 

Thanks for the color suggestions, Virus. I'll look into it.

[Jazz]

Suggestion:

 

Forum users should be gray.

 

Members could be white.

HaneHane

 

Regs could be fet white.

Banana Joe

 

Supporters can be any blue-ish colour they want. (Optional.)

starbucks

 

All Admins should be green because it matches the theme. With the exception of AM, BD, VP and PO who could be red.

[Harry]

Proud #FFFFFF on #000000 terminal user here. I agree with Astrum 100%. The reason why I like darker themes is because it doesn't rape your eyes. It is a bit less welcoming, true... but with the quality being is much more pleasing on the eyes. I do dislike using them because all the skiddys use it... but I can deal with that, rather than having my corneas get raped.

[bethy]

I love the dark, especially since my eyes start to hurt after being on the computer for just an hour lol.