The blue TR Forum theme is live

[Cyril]

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.

[Hance]

wOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOtt !!!!!!!!!!

[iamajai]

Praise the lord...or Cyril...as you wish.

[JJCDAD]

Oh thank gawd!

[tfp]

Great thanks

[FerdJones]

Ahhh.... better.. moocharse grassyarse

[drfish]

Wow, I can actually stand to browse the forums again...

[Dposcorp]

I went to it, but for some reason I missed the beige so I went back to prosilver.
Am I the only one?

[UberGerbil]

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.

[Vrock]

Am I the only one?

Yes. Yes, you are.

[notfred]

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

[FubbHead]

By the way... What's so "silver" about prosilver?

[idchafee]

I'll probably stay with the tan

[Flying Fox]

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.

[Sargent Duck]

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

Much appreciated.

[themattman]

So far everything looks great, thanks.

[Cyril]

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:



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

[Dposcorp]

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.

[Vrock]

I'll probably stay with the tan

Ain't it great that you have that option? Gotta love this place.

[MrJP]

Thanks Cyril. Though the tan was just starting to grow on me...

[JJCDAD]

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!

[Vrock]

Thanks Cyril. Though the tan was just starting to grow on me...

Yeah, it was growing on me too....like a fungus.

[Dizik]

That's a whole lot of green names. It's hard to tell the difference between Global Mods and regular Mods.

[FireGryphon]

Rockin'! Thanks to the entire TR team.

[dragmor]

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.

[tsoulier]

Thank goodness

[Usacomp2k3]

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:



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

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!

[notfred]

Yup, those icon colours would work for me. Thanks!

[idchafee]

Thanks Cyril. Though the tan was just starting to grow on me...

Yeah, it was growing on me too....like a fungus.

Hey, don't you have to change your sig now?

[gerbilspy]

Oh thank gawd!

ditto!