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[Avalanche87]

Hey all, awesome work on making everything look all shiny & new

This may have been covered, but after a quick tinker & look, I can't find my "subscribed threads", is this what the "watched" is meant to be? In saying that, would the old subscribed threads be able to be ported to this format?

Thanks

 

[Lex]

That's a question for @Cthulhu , admittedly the thread subscription feature is something I've only ever used on other forums (ResetERA).

 

[Channy]

phone) and quote that in a post.

WAT. I HAD NO IDEA THIS WAS A THING

 

[Cthulhu]

@Avalanche87 'watched' threads are the same as subscribed threads, yes, but I don't know if they've been ported over, I've never used the feature. If https://thelifestream.net/forums/watched/threads comes up empty for you, then no, they've not been migrated over.

 

[Kai Schulen]

WHAT IS CHANGE SO TERRIFY MUCH DISLIKE SUPER WOW

Just kidding, I liek how official things look. So smooth, so shiny~

(Now, if there could be different colored layout themes... *winkwonknyuknyuknyuk*)

 

[Dawnbreaker]

Looks great, guys! Great job!

 

[lithiumkatana17]

Dude, this new layout is so much more cell phone friendly. I’m digging it.

 

[hleV]

Hi, not sure if noted already but the font color in this area should be bright instead of black:

 

[Lex]

uhhh.... it's a feature not a bug?

:3 :3 :3

 

[hleV]

OK, keep it hardly visible (on darker monitors) then.

 

[Fangu]

Yeah that contrast looks like it wouldn't pass any of the WCAG minimum requirements.

In other news, the green background when marking text is pretty. It makes me happy.

 

[Deleted member 546]

Just wanna chip in that I figured the text colour thing was a design thing and that I'd have to get used to it, but I dun liek it because I have to tilt my screen to see it properly. I keep my screen slightly dimmed because bright lights hurt pretty quickly. Is there any way of making it sharper at least?

 

[Lex]

Happy to lighten the colour if there's enough support for it, I'll take a look in a bit.

 

[Lex]

I've changed the colours for both the "not selected" tabs in the header and the search bar (which also changes the mailbox icon colour), since they were also black. Could you all please let me know if that's better?

Thanks

 

[Roger]

Prefer it the way it was before.

 

[Lex]

This may be a poll moment

 

[Cthulhu]

I had a colleague who was quite into / versed in the accessibility wotsit, and he used a contrast meter (like https://webaim.org/resources/contrastchecker/ ) to check his colors here and there; iirc the WCAG dictates a minimal contrast rating. One of the interesting things he did was very subtly change the official company logo shade of orange so that it met the WCAG recommendations (I forgot the exact location / circumstance it was used at). Nobody noticed, but the number was better, so, woot.

Erm, I mean. I agree the previous colors was a bit hard to see in high light conditions. Carry on, . How is the official Xf skin looking in those conditions?

 

[Lex]

The official XF skin is bright AF so I imagine it's fine

What's funny about our theme here is that even though it's dark, it's actually a great deal brighter than vB TLS. Me likey.

Anyway I made a poll: https://thelifestream.net/forums/threads/choose-your-menu-bar.20726/

 

[Ite]

Everything about this new forum is awesome. The polls look beautiful. It's been flawless on mobile as well.

 

[Tennyo]

Late to the party, but yes. The forums look awesome.

I'm having a hard time figuring out how to navigate on mobile, though, buuuut maybe that's just user error.

 

[ForceStealer]

This is your first time seeing the new forums? Geez

 

[Tennyo]

This is your first time seeing the new forums? Geez

Petition for a dislike/angry react button plz & thank u.

 

[looneymoon]

omg the mobilw is honestly so much simpler to navigate holy shit? to think I put up with so many years of the old browser view

I am exclusively a mobile user outside of my work computer, so I'm just like Woah

 

[The Twilight Mexican]

For the sake of full disclosure, I'm also almost exclusively a mobile user these days and think the old site was much more mobile friendly. I'm honestly surprised that anyone thinks otherwise.

That being said, I've made my peace with it and am thoroughly pleased that it's an improvement in the eyes of most everyone else. =) Clearly it's just me that’s missing something here.

 

[Lex]

I truly struggled with the old site on mobile, it literally had zero mobile functionality. I'm not trying to devalue your opinion Tres, but is it possible you just got used to it? I knew you didn't have a problem with it on mobile previously where most others did, but I was hoping you would like the mobile support of the new board.