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The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:31 pm

After a few setbacks, we've finally rolled out a blue theme for the forums. You can enable it through your user control panel. See my blog post here for more details:

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/14266

Feel free to report any bugs or problems you run into.
 
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:37 pm

wOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOtt !!!!!!!!!!
 
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:41 pm

Praise the lord...or Cyril...as you wish.
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:42 pm

Oh thank gawd! :)
 
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:44 pm

Great thanks
 
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 3:50 pm

Ahhh.... better.. moocharse grassyarse :P
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:03 pm

Wow, I can actually stand to browse the forums again... :D
 
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:03 pm

I went to it, but for some reason I missed the beige so I went back to prosilver.
Am I the only one?
 
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:05 pm

One nice side effect of this background is that the "hot" (red) topic icons are easier to distinguish from the normal ones. Edit: for those of us fortunate enough to not be colorblind. As NotFred notes, it doesn't help if you are.

On the downside, FF's squiggly underline for misspellings is a little harder to see (the comment editing textarea could've remained black text on white without harming the overall blueness), but I can deal with it.
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:06 pm

Dposcorp wrote:
Am I the only one?
Yes. Yes, you are. :P
 
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:09 pm

Any chance of fixing the read / unread icons on either theme so that they don't rely on colour to differentiate? It's almost impossible on the old theme, on the blue theme there is no hope.

I'm speaking as a red-green colour blind individual, and given that the overwhelming majority of people on the boards seem to be male that's true for 7-10% of your readers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness#Prevalence
 
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:10 pm

By the way... What's so "silver" about prosilver? :-)
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:13 pm

I'll probably stay with the tan
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:18 pm

I kind of complained about the darker blue when it was on the staging server. I preferred a lighter blue similar to the old forums. I'll wait a few days before passing judgement.
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:23 pm

Much much thanks goes out to you Cyril and any others who helped you.

Much appreciated.
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 4:38 pm

So far everything looks great, thanks.
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:02 pm

notfred wrote:
Any chance of fixing the read / unread icons on either theme so that they don't rely on colour to differentiate? It's almost impossible on the old theme, on the blue theme there is no hope.

I'm speaking as a red-green colour blind individual, and given that the overwhelming majority of people on the boards seem to be male that's true for 7-10% of your readers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness#Prevalence


How about we just switch from red to orange for those icons? That would look like this:

Image

Which, if GIMP's colorblind filter is any good, would look like this to you:

Image
 
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:08 pm

Cyril, forgot to say thanks for all the work you did and do.
You are the man, and seeing you respond and help right away with the issue notfred brought up is awesome.

I bow in your general direction.
 
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 5:41 pm

idchafee wrote:
I'll probably stay with the tan
Ain't it great that you have that option? Gotta love this place.
 
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 6:26 pm

Thanks Cyril. Though the tan was just starting to grow on me... :)
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 7:29 pm

Is there any way to make the Post A Reply text input box white? It is kind of hard to see the red squiggly underline of spellcheck.

Other than that, everything looks great!
 
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:45 pm

MrJP wrote:
Thanks Cyril. Though the tan was just starting to grow on me... :)
Yeah, it was growing on me too....like a fungus. :P
 
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 8:55 pm

That's a whole lot of green names. It's hard to tell the difference between Global Mods and regular Mods.
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:18 pm

Rockin'! Thanks to the entire TR team.
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 9:47 pm

Any chance of making the off white / yellow colour of parts of the text to just normal white.

Also the thread icon edges look really bad with the blue behind them.
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:00 pm

Thank goodness
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Mon Mar 03, 2008 10:11 pm

Cyril wrote:
notfred wrote:
Any chance of fixing the read / unread icons on either theme so that they don't rely on colour to differentiate? It's almost impossible on the old theme, on the blue theme there is no hope.

I'm speaking as a red-green colour blind individual, and given that the overwhelming majority of people on the boards seem to be male that's true for 7-10% of your readers.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness#Prevalence


How about we just switch from red to orange for those icons? That would look like this:

Image

Which, if GIMP's colorblind filter is any good, would look like this to you:

Image

It is good because they seriously look the same to me. I really like the proposed icons. That'd be amazing.

Thanks so much for all the hard work!
 
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Tue Mar 04, 2008 9:55 am

Yup, those icon colours would work for me. Thanks!
 
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:10 am

Vrock wrote:
MrJP wrote:
Thanks Cyril. Though the tan was just starting to grow on me... :)
Yeah, it was growing on me too....like a fungus. :P


Hey, don't you have to change your sig now?
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Re: The blue TR Forum theme is live

Tue Mar 04, 2008 10:45 am

JJCDAD wrote:
Oh thank gawd! :)


ditto!
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