New Themes

[BRickAstley]

I've been working on converting a public 1.8 theme to be a new default, and it's changed enough for people to take a look at and offer comments now. 

Go into your user profile and 'Edit Options', or the dropdown selection box on the bottom of any forum page, and select "RB 1.8 Classic" to take a look. 

I've tried to use the traditional colors from our last theme, and a little from an old old old theme, to make something up-to-date, functional, and nice. I'm definitely open to input to make it better, so fire away, but the intention is to soon make this theme or a similar rendition the default theme for the site. Mainly to allow for full site functionality, since the ported old theme does not. 

I am also working on a white-based version of this theme I will announce shortly, and can do other color variations in time upon request.


EDIT: This theme is pretty well built out and now feels complete enough to set as the default. I will be setting this theme as the default for new visitors. If you still see the old theme, use the following directions to change: Go into your user profile and 'Edit Options', or the dropdown selection box on the bottom of any forum page, and select "RB 1.8 Classic".

ANOTHER EDIT: A White and Black theme are also available. I am changing everyone onto the new theme now that we have multiple options built and working. Please leave any feedback or bugs here.

[picklepikkl]

I converted over to this new theme and I am pretty fond of it so far. (Especially because Quick Edit works, and if you've seen my posts you know that I love my edits.)

A couple of notes:
At the page bottom, there is an About Us section that currently has only dummy text.
I'm not really fond of the thread icons; it appears to be heart for "hot threads", folder for other threads, and hollow out the coloring for "contains no unread posts"? Except sometimes I mouse over a closed folder icon and it's a hot thread, but contains posts by me and has no unread posts. Is it possible to edit the schema around to something a little more consistent/grokkable?
The "New Posts" feature is now tucked away into the More dropdown at the top, which makes me pretty sad because that is the key feature for my RB workflow. AN ENTIRE EXTRA CLICK, MAN

[Bobchillingworth]

I'm a fan of 1.8, much prefer the presentation. One question- where's the "subscribe" option for threads?

[BRickAstley]

Under the settings "Gear" on the thread title bar.

[Commodore]

Looks good. Couple with the Calm Grey color scheme and you'll have a winner.

[BRickAstley]

At the page bottom, there is an About Us section that currently has only dummy text.

Yeah, definitely need to get something there....

I'm not really fond of the thread icons; it appears to be heart for "hot threads", folder for other threads, and hollow out the coloring for "contains no unread posts"? Except sometimes I mouse over a closed folder icon and it's a hot thread, but contains posts by me and has no unread posts. Is it possible to edit the schema around to something a little more consistent/grokkable?

I'll look into it.

The "New Posts" feature is now tucked away into the More dropdown at the top, which makes me pretty sad because that is the key feature for my RB workflow. AN ENTIRE EXTRA CLICK, MAN

Take a look up above now yo.

[BRickAstley]

I'm not really fond of the thread icons; it appears to be heart for "hot threads", folder for other threads, and hollow out the coloring for "contains no unread posts"? Except sometimes I mouse over a closed folder icon and it's a hot thread, but contains posts by me and has no unread posts. Is it possible to edit the schema around to something a little more consistent/grokkable?

This is changed, and I'm gonna explain it in pseudocode:

IF (Thread is locked)
   Icon = Lock
   Exit

IF (Thread contains user's post)
   Icon = Heart
ELSE
   IF (Thread is "hot")
      Icon = Star
   ELSE
      Icon = Folder

IF (Thread contains unread posts)
   Style = Filled In
ELSE
   Style = Hollow

[Cheater Hater]

The style for unread posts in a subforum is weird: it has a white dot for no new posts and a dark dot for unread posts, and it feels like they should be the opposite (especially since the main forums still use the light=unread, dark=read--maybe you just accidentally swapped a couple files?).  It also took a bit to find the "Mark Forum as Read" icon now that it's a tiny checkmark rather than words, but that's something minor (though a tweak to make those buttons like the reply/quote/etc buttons on posts might be better, to increase the amount of horizontal space for the button).

Edit: A bit more nitpicky feedback: the dividing line between profile info/post content/signature seems a little too light.  Also, I was hovering over the thread icons (which lets you know if a thread is "hot" if you have posts in it) and the tooltip clips off the left side of my screen. In even more minor tooltip nitpicks, the Report button tooltip overlaps the button (since it goes over two lines), so if you're hovering over the top part of the button it causes to tooltip to blink (since the tooltip interrupts the hover, causing it to go away, causing you to hover the button again, and so on)--presumably there's a way to move the tooltip up a bit?

[WarriorKnight]

It'll take time to get used to the new theme but first impressions are pretty good.

However when you go to make a post and scroll down to thread review, the text for all previous posts overlaps each other on 1 line. It makes reading earlier posts impossible.

[Bobchillingworth]

Ditto what CH said. The dot color indicating a subforum has new posts is especially odd, as the opposite color scheme is used to denote individual threads with new content.