Styling requests

[riotous living]

Are there any intentions of bringing back the Dark/Green Mobile style?

 

[AztecCroc]

Are there any intentions of bringing back the Dark/Green Mobile style?

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There was no style by that name and there were like 3 different ones with green in the name. Which one do you mean?

 

[riotous living]

There was no style by that name and there were like 3 different ones with green in the name. Which one do you mean?

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I can't really remember the name, but I know it's not any of the styles that are currently up. It was primarily black with green highlights for the header and alerts, thought it had Mobile somewhere in the title

 

[AztecCroc]

I can't really remember the name, but I know it's not any of the styles that are currently up. It was primarily black with green highlights for the header and alerts, thought it had Mobile somewhere in the title

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Are you thinking of Flexile? Cause that doesn't exist for XF2, someone would have to remake it from scratch.

 

[Missingnoleader]

I'm curious if we can see more precise viewer numbers then just the 8K and or 2M and such.

 

[lmann]

In the thread mark box can the chapters be moved to the top and all the other stuff at the bottom?

 

[macdjord]

In Blackened Green, the background colour of un-revealed inline spoilers (Like this) is almost indistinguishable from the background of the post, making it very hard to notice it's there. Inline spoilers aren't supposed to be invisitext; they're supposed to be obvious in their presence but hide their content unless you choose to view them.

 

[Vanbers]

In Blackened Green, the background colour of un-revealed inline spoilers (Like this) is almost indistinguishable from the background of the post, making it very hard to notice it's there. Inline spoilers aren't supposed to be invisitext; they're supposed to be obvious in their presence but hide their content unless you choose to view them.

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Blackened purple as well.

Would really like if they were just solid black or something, and not single-shade-off-from-background-gray.

 

[AztecCroc]

Blackened purple as well.

Would really like if they were just solid black or something, and not single-shade-off-from-background-gray.

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The color of the in-line spoiler isn't tied to the theme, it's the same on all of them. If it was actual black it would be invisible on Blackened High Contrast.

 

[macdjord]

The color of the in-line spoiler isn't tied to the theme, it's the same on all of them. If it was actual black it would be invisible on Blackened High Contrast.

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There's no reason it has to be the same on all themes. Or if it does, make it pure black but with a white outline or something.

 

[EmperorSIX]

I'm not sure if this is just me, but the width of the forum keeps reverting to wide randomly, and often like 2-3 times every half hour.

 

[EmperorSIX]

Are there any intentions of bringing back the Dark/Green Mobile style?

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I don't know the name of this one either, but yes. None of the new styles are as good as that one, imo.

 

[OurLadyOfWires]

Apologies if it was already asked/suggested/mentioned somewhere else. This is my second post in the site, so I'm still getting a bearing of what goes where.

But regarding styles.

I intend to write a story that makes heavy use of colored text. That story was originally posted in a site that had a darker "default" xenforo setting.

So for example, text written in this color was not has hard to read. While text written in DARK COLORS were immediately apparent as "being out of place", since the default letters were colored white.

So, what is the best way to signal readers that a darker xenforo style might make for a better reader experience?
-Should I simply write it in a sticky post, and indicate they should change the settings at the bottom of the screen?
-Is there a "link" I can insert into text that could be more conveniently clicked, that would change the style?
-Is there a way to program a thread so that any user that enters it is automatically "switched" into another xenforo style?

I honestly do not understand much about these systems. So, although I don't want to inconvenience readers or "force" a change of their personal settings, I still want to know if these kinds of things are a part of the site's system.

Thank you for your time.

 

[evildice]

So for example, text written in this color was not has hard to read. While text written in DARK COLORS were immediately apparent as "being out of place", since the default letters were colored white.

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I'm using an addon called "Dark Reader" which is intended to make sites more readable in a dark theme.

Here's how the quoted text looks on my screen:

Spoiler

 

[Kinematics]

So, what is the best way to signal readers that a darker xenforo style might make for a better reader experience?
-Should I simply write it in a sticky post, and indicate they should change the settings at the bottom of the screen?
-Is there a "link" I can insert into text that could be more conveniently clicked, that would change the style?
-Is there a way to program a thread so that any user that enters it is automatically "switched" into another xenforo style?

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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 painful. I once had a migraine where light themes were physically painful to look at, so had to switch a lot of my browsing to dark modes for a while (though QQ is one of the few places I use a dark theme).

One question I would ask is whether the colored text is intended to be inline, or if it's something that's likely to be presented in tables or some such. If it goes in tables, it is possible to program the background color of table cells such that you end up with a proper contrast, unlike the usual post area which you have no control over. (There is no way to set a text background color with BBCode.)

With all that said, I'd recommend you advise readers about the potential issues. I'd also look into color-blind-safe color schemes, as those tend to have less issues with different backgrounds than more 'standard' colors. It may be you can get around the problem by just a better choice of colors.

 

[macdjord]

Being able to say 'this text should be colour X on dark themes and colour Y on light themes' would be a useful feature. Out of scope for this thread, though.

 

[EmperorSIX]

I'm not sure if this is just me, but the width of the forum keeps reverting to wide randomly, and often like 2-3 times every half hour.

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I'm not sure anything came of this, but I would like to raise the issue again.

I have a wide monitor that makes reading anything on this site when the forum fills my entire screen very annoying as everything gets stretched out. Theres a Change Width button on the bottom of the screen next to the Style chooser button which allows me to go from wide margins to narrow margins.

The annoying part is that every so often, when I refresh or click the next page button or the next threadmark button, the forum randomly reverts to wide margins. This isn't terrible when I'm just browsing forums but when I'm reading the story and go to the next chapter, and the margins go wide, I have to scroll through a lot of discussion to go to the bottom of the screen to click the Change Width button and then scroll all the way up again which frankly, makes me want to punch my monitor.

is there a way to permanently change the width to narrow? Or barring that, some kind of fix that stops it from reverting to wide margins. At the very least, is it possible that to make the change width button always float at the bottom of the screen instead of having to scroll down for it?

Or is this the wrong place to bring this up?

I didn't have this problem before the forum was upgraded if that helps.

 

[evildice]

Or is this the wrong place to bring this up?

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Seems like the right place to me.

I haven't noticed the width cookie getting unstuck, but it would be very annoying if it did, so I support your plea.

 

[EmperorSIX]

Seems like the right place to me.

I haven't noticed the width cookie getting unstuck, but it would be very annoying if it did, so I support your plea.

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Hopefully your support makes a difference.

 

[Dreadis]

I have a wide monitor that makes reading anything on this site when the forum fills my entire screen very annoying as everything gets stretched out. Theres a Change Width button on the bottom of the screen next to the Style chooser button which allows me to go from wide margins to narrow margins.

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Managed to recreate while on blackened high contrast theme. Had to reenable. only took a couple hours of downtime from last QQ usage

 

[EmperorSIX]

Managed to recreate while on blackened high contrast theme. Had to reenable. only took a couple hours of downtime from last QQ usage

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good to know its not just me.

 

[arachnidsGrip]

The button to highlight invisitext is missing from the "Light" and "Dark" styles.

invisitext

Also, on the "Blackened" styles the color of the highlighted invisitext is almost indistinguishable from the background color, essentially defeating the purpose of having that button be anything more than an indicator that a given post contains invisitext somewhere.

 

[AztecCroc]

The button to highlight invisitext is missing from the "Light" and "Dark" styles.

invisitext

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Not just the button, but also the functionality in general. If you switch to one of those styles when you've got it enabled, it won't work even though it will remain enabled after switching back.

 

[macdjord]

In most versions of BBCode, including XF1, the [sub] and [sup] tags, besides shifting the text vertically, also make it smaller, but since the XF2 migration, that is no longer the case; the tagged text is exactly the same size as normal text. This breaks a number of long-standing standard uses for these tags, such as [sup] for superscript ordinals and powers (e.g. "2nd​" and "x2​") and [sub] for whispered dialogue.

Can we have the old behaviour back, please?

 

[vladspellbinder]

So, sort of question and suggestion in one I guess? Question if it is already a thing and suggestion if it isn't. Anyways. I'm wondering if there is a way to disable text color on other people's posts so I only see default text color. I'm trying to read though some stories and the author uses bright colors for things but I'm in light mode so I can't read the text unless I highlight it and that's starting to get very annoying when every thing the characters says and half of what they do are bright yellow.

 

[Gforce1000]

I'm going to bring up the page width thing again. I know it's a relatively minor annoyance, but it is also literally constant. It's happening pretty much every single time I load a QQ page now- maybe 4/5 or 9/10 times- and every time it happens I have to scroll all the way to the bottom to change the width back to narrow and make it actually readable. I can tell I'm using the site less and less because every time the 'next threadmark' button takes me to a new page it goes wide again and completely takes me out of what I was reading.

We didn't used to have this. It's not literally breaking my kneecaps, but there are no upsides and I don't think anyone asked for it. Why were variable margins even added if all they do is fuck formatting and readability?

Please let us set which one we like in preferences or something else that will actually be permanent, if we can't just get rid of it altogether.

 

[Vanbers]

I'm going to bring up the page width thing again. I know it's a relatively minor annoyance, but it is also literally constant. It's happening pretty much every single time I load a QQ page now- maybe 4/5 or 9/10 times- and every time it happens I have to scroll all the way to the bottom to change the width back to narrow and make it actually readable. I can tell I'm using the site less and less because every time the 'next threadmark' button takes me to a new page it goes wide again and completely takes me out of what I was reading.

We didn't used to have this. It's not literally breaking my kneecaps, but there are no upsides and I don't think anyone asked for it. Why were variable margins even added if all they do is fuck formatting and readability?

Please let us set which one we like in preferences or something else that will actually be permanent, if we can't just get rid of it altogether.

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I have no idea why that's happening to you, personally my width has never changed since I last changed it.

Are you looking for 'no margins' or 'wide margins'? I hate margins on mine so I just had it so the content is wide and margins are narrow/gone, and it's never changed away from that without me hitting the button at the bottom. Using 'Blackened Purple' as my style, if that changes anything. Does using other Styles change anything for you, or make that behaviour stop?

Is anyone else having the 'width changes to the opposite every single page no matter how many times I change it' issue? Because that sounds moderately sitebreaking and something that lots of people would complain about, I absolutely would if it were me.

Also, while not an issue I've ever had, I'll second the 'let us set it in 'Preferences' thing. Just seems like good practice to have that as a changeable setting.

And as for why variable margins are there, IIRC it's because some people (It's me, I'm the people) absolutely fucking HATE wide margins, and when the changeover happened and the styles were gone, we kind of were just stuck with them, and a bunch of people (It's me again, I'm still the people) went "what the fuck, this is awful, fuck this, change change change change pls pls pls pls" and then we got the 'change width' thing. Unless I'm misremembering.

So, sort of question and suggestion in one I guess? Question if it is already a thing and suggestion if it isn't. Anyways. I'm wondering if there is a way to disable text color on other people's posts so I only see default text color. I'm trying to read though some stories and the author uses bright colors for things but I'm in light mode so I can't read the text unless I highlight it and that's starting to get very annoying when every thing the characters says and half of what they do are bright yellow.

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Also seconding this.

While I don't mind story posts with a bit of colour I am absolutely tired of getting flashbanged by attention whores in the comments that think that making their entire comment bright goddamn yellow is anything other than disgusting to do.

 

[Gforce1000]

I have no idea why that's happening to you, personally my width has never changed since I last changed it.

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For all I know it's because my browser or an adblock plugin or something just doesn't get along with the specific cookie QQ uses to track this, but I'm not gonna start dropping those for QQ's sake and this sort of setting shouldn't need to be a cookie. I'm signed in already.

I'm looking for the wide margins, so the posts are only taking up like... the middle half, maybe two thirds of the screen? I want it to stick in narrow mode.

And as for why variable margins are there, IIRC it's because some people (It's me, I'm the people) absolutely fucking HATE wide margins, and when the changeover happened and the styles were gone, we kind of were just stuck with them, and a bunch of people (It's me again, I'm still the people) went "what the fuck, this is awful, fuck this, change change change change pls pls pls pls" and then we got the 'change width' thing. Unless I'm misremembering.

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So it was you.

Gentlemen, grab your pitchforks.

 

[Malcolm Tent]

It's probably pointless after so long, but once I again I beseech the forum gods to return our beloved QQ orange in Blackened High Contrast. The blue is fine, but it's just not the real QQ without that halloween color palette.

 

[Vanbers]

So it was you.

Gentlemen, grab your pitchforks.

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Bah, narrow margins are best margins, and we all know it

It's probably pointless after so long, but once I again I beseech the forum gods to return our beloved QQ orange in Blackened High Contrast. The blue is fine, but it's just not the real QQ without that halloween color palette.

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>Tfw no old QQ

I miss my DarkResponsive(Green), Tails.