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  1. Kinematics

    Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    This may not actually be possible. It is not legally settled whether you can voluntarily release something into the public domain. It's been a while since I read about it, but it was rather legally messy, as I recall. You can, however, use something like the Creative Commons licenses to get an...
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    Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    I should probably retract my earlier (exaggerated) statement about copyright doing more harm than good. It would be more accurate to say that I believe the current implementation of copyright in the US is an overreach that goes well beyond the boundaries of the 'good' that copyright is intended...
  3. Kinematics

    Rule 3 Addendum - Translations of Others' Works

    Everything is copyrighted, including fanfiction. Your post is copyrighted. There's a reason the forum has this as part of its terms and rules: Basically nothing created within your lifetime will ever not be copyrighted, so we warp the rules we live by to fit that reality. (EG: The rule in...
  4. Kinematics

    Soliciting style requests

    They've had it on SB for several years, at least. I remember filing a bug report on it not being colored properly on the default theme quite a while ago. Searching... November 2019. It basically comes down to adding an attribute to quote elements if the user reference is you, and then a bit of...
  5. Kinematics

    Styling requests

    A link to change a user's theme is not something you can post. That's something solely under the control of the user. Likewise, there is no way to switch a thread's theming. Basically, forcibly changing a user's theme is very bad form. In some cases, a different theme can be physically...
  6. Kinematics

    XF2 transition feedback

    Are they active alerts or past alerts? XF2 keeps a long history in the menu, but many of the themes don't distinguish between read and unread alerts very well. Click on Mark Read/Mark Unread to see how things change. By default, threadmark alerts stay active until you go to the post, while...
  7. Kinematics

    XF2 transition feedback

    From what I can tell, the Light and Dark themes scale fonts appropriately, while the Default, Blackened (all variants), and Lightened themes have fixed font sizes that don't respect the overall site font size.
  8. Kinematics

    XF2 transition feedback

    I commented on this in this post. It affects some themes, but not all. It can be fixed with a userstyle (see linked post). I'm not sure if they're making any effort to adjust it on the backend. Admin hasn't posted in this thread in a while.
  9. Kinematics

    XF2 transition feedback

    Are you sure? I thought I remembered it working that way (ie: an empty reply box).
  10. Kinematics

    Soliciting style requests

    I agree with @Vanbers — They're nearly indistinguishable from the background color. See: screenshot from the basic Blackened theme. I haven't had an issue with it personally, though, because my own userstyle has increased the contrast by darkening the post background. See: screenshot. All the...
  11. Kinematics

    XF2 transition feedback

    For voting? The X doesn't cause any issues that I'm aware of, so using another variation wouldn't really matter. Getting it to accept parens for tasks is a trivial change. I added it as part of a rework I'm already doing.
  12. Kinematics

    XF2 transition feedback

    Oh, that could be annoying. The [Information] tag was just a vote task, but because of the use of []'s for tasks, it can be grabbed as BBCode, even if only the moderators should be able to use it. And even if it got fixed for normal users, it would interfere with moderators who attempted to...
  13. Kinematics

    Soliciting style requests

    Feel free to use my custom userstyles. Screenshot
  14. Kinematics

    XF2 transition feedback

    This is a thing I've pointed out before. The Light and Dark themes have smaller elements set to a size like 0.8125rem. Using rem units means they are set relative to the base font size of the page, so when you change the site font size, everything is adjusted. The Blackened themes (and I...
  15. Kinematics

    XF2 transition feedback

    There's an issue with parsing BBCode colors. The deadline for the vote is Thursday, April 4th at 1900 hours Eastern Daylight Time (-4 GMT). The deadline for the vote is Thursday, April 4th at 1900 hours Eastern Daylight Time (-4 GMT). The deadline for the vote is Thursday, April 4th at...
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