Since so many people felt that we'd do well to have some custom(-ish) theme options, I've done exactly that. Click the cog under your name over in the left column, click "Edit Profile" and you should see a dropdown box at the bottom.
You now have four options:
Standard (the normal theme)
Dark (a darker version)
Faded (a bit washed out - not as dark as Dark, but with a bit less contrast)
Inverted (try it and see...)
I can fiddle with these a bit, so feedback is appreciated; however, they're mostly filters applied to the entire page, so there's a limit to how much customisation I can realistically do with what little spare time I have available.
It's also worth saying that Dark and Faded will also affect images and videos displayed within threads. Inverted won't, because it's really bloody weird.
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I shall look forward to inverting stuff later
Are you using the full version of the site or the mobile version? If mobile...see above. If full...try refreshing a couple of times, Apple's mobile browser can be quite crappy about picking these things up.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
However...what do you mean by "weird"? And what browser are you using?
Inverted certainly does something and would be good at Halloween!
I'll stick with standard.
For some reason, desktop users appear not to be interested in this thread...
The difference even on IPS screens between faded and Dark is subtle
The pallet for the Inverted is (as Stu mentioned a little halloween) perhaps Notepad++'s themes could be a good guide. I'm partial to things like "Black Board", "Ruby Blue", or "Solarized"
Or sites like https://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?91272 where the colour (red for them) is used as an accent more than a prime colour choice. A little busy on their homepage, but greys/blue https://www.hackthissite.org/
I certainly think I'd like to see something with black background, dark great post bars (or whatever they're called), light grey/white body text, mid-grey post information... and some shade of blue as an accent here and there.
Those would be my tuppence worth
I'm a fan of colour pallets like these for "Dark" themes
..cough
..howevvvvvver....
Is it possible to offer options that are less similar to each other ? At the moment I would summarise the four themes as;
1. Forum staring into the sun
2. Forum on a foggy day
3. Forum on a slightly misty day
4. Forum on acid.
Even if you can't, I'm very grateful as "Forum on acid" is ideal for my sensitive little peepers, especially when I'm tucked up in bed at night in my jim-jams and typing a frothy-mouthed rant about something trivial.
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
I've cheated a little bit - instead of changing the colour schemes, I've just used CSS3 filters to alter the overall output. As a result, there's not a lot of wiggle-room (eg the Inverted one is literally just the colour scheme, inverted). However, I will be expanding it bit-by-bit to have more pronounced changes such that it works nicely...with the caveat that we most certainly don't want to change the overall branding of the site. The thing is...the ones we have now are 10 minutes of work. The work that'd go into tuning the colours individually is probably 10-20 times that.
Anyway, the feedback is definitely appreciated. I'll have a fiddle with it over the next few days, and see what I can come up with.
And remember not to knock yourself out over this, some people said it might be a nice feature, but no one will die if it takes as long as it takes - we're not going anywhere
My avatar sure looks more psychedelic than usual.
Anyway, I do like the invert scheme.
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