Forum Theme Alert

DCurrent

Site Owner, OpenBOR Project Leader
Staff member
While visually the current theme is perfect IMO, it is not responsive (adaptive to mobile and browser size). I'm currently browsing around and trying out new themes, so if you see any weirdness, that's why.

DC
 
i know this is a silly request
but could you change the colors on the website for blue and white like in the old lavalit website ?
most forum webpages use black...
 
It's not a silly request, but no the answer is no. Also, Lavalit spent nearly its entire ~5 year life in this color scheme with only a short stint in blue/white.

DC
 
Still working on themes, and no - I'm not renaming the forum to "astonished". just haven't replaced that silly default image. The old theme was great, but it had a severe disadvantage of using pictures for the navigation bar, with no fall back for items that didn't already have an associated picture.

I've also found a download system that should allow me to remove Tiny Portal and all the junk that goes with it. Please pardon the dust while I work on these things.

DC
 
The theme is still in flux, but I do have some news about Downloads. For now, were still on Tiny Portal, as there's no (working) way to move downloads to a new system. However, I discovered some hidden settings on the webserver that were holding downloads to 10MB. That is why downloads of any size were failing.

I still have a 300MB cap in place to avoid potential spammers bringing down the server, but that's more than enough for nearly any module. The rare larger ones can be dealt with using FTP. I tested by uploading the 101MB Hatchet Ninjas and it worked great - even with my connection running slow. Please give it a try on your end and let me know.

DC
 
I like style, kinda cool but It's a bit too bright for me  8) (the light) *hiisssss* (what about the poor albinos that are sensitive to light?) I hope there will be darker option at some stage?
 
This is just a trial phase, and some of the text colors are well... stupid. I'm looking through some others. If I had time I'd just build a theme myself.

DC
 
crimefighters3 said:
I like style, kinda cool but It's a bit too bright for me  8) (the light) *hiisssss* (what about the poor albinos that are sensitive to light?) I hope there will be darker option at some stage?
Seconded. The darker colors were much easier on the eyes.
 
I was surprised to see this new layout when I came here.

mersox said:
I know it's just a test phase, but I do like this theme better than the previous one. Sue me.

+1 LOL
 
Btw, like the new theme, would be better with a different color scheme though. I can help with that if you allow me to. Just a color scheme though not editing the forum per se

Also liked that we still use the old logo.

And seconded with a new downloads system. Especially with posting new engine binaries and other stuff.

The dev part of the theme might need to add a quick access button for recent posts.  :)
Nevermind, it's there.

Also, got a problem with the side panel (with the name and avatar) where the separators are tad large on my iPad2. Dunno if it's just the dev part of the theme or others.
Confirmed that it's not just the iPad, it's also in my PC.
 
Whoa, I'm surprised! contrast change from dark to bright  8)
Anyways, looks like there are more changes than just theme so I'm going to browse forum to see what else been changed
 
@DC: Regarding downloads for SMF, you've already checked this out, right?

There was a pro version for that which can import TinyPortal downloads and other features, but is expensive (Price $65 owned license (Includes one year of updates) - License: For one instance on a online forum.).
 
Off-topic:
Finally, I tested downloading a full single mod from its section and it now worked for me! :D Now I can download mods! Yes!!!

EDIT: Sorry, but I don't mean to spam my posts. It's just that I feel satisfied that I already found out that downloading mods in download section works.
 
CRxTRDude said:
@DC: Regarding downloads for SMF, you've already checked this out, right?

There was a pro version for that which can import TinyPortal downloads and other features, but is expensive (Price $65 owned license (Includes one year of updates) - License: For one instance on a online forum.).

The free version already has that feature. The problem is TinyPortal. It's so out of date the SQL Queries that perform the import won't work. The community is very disorganized and I can't find the new versions, even though I know they're out there.

DC
 
magggas said:
This theme looks horrible too me  :-\
It feels like the new iTunes without the dark skin option .
I agree to this mostly.  All the white brightness hurts my eyes when i try to read things. Could we make the white darker it doesnt have to be black but something darker?
 
Hahah! I see a new change of the layout here! ;D The color ain't bad so I like it. Much better for the eyes to view.
 
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