Brontoforumus Archive
Discussion Boards => High-Context Discourse => Topic started by: Mothra on October 25, 2009, 12:17:40 AM
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Starting in the next couple of days, I'm going to be drawing up mockups for new forum themes/community identities and posting them for reactions. We've got Bronto as a placeholder until I start getting these out the door, likely beginning Tuesday, then I'll get a voting box up in this bitch and we can get to some sort of consensus.
UNTIL THEN:
(http://data.tumblr.com/ZZ8buVGKrkcp40x0HT4GsqHSo1_400.gif)
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assorted creations (and the lp forum by proxy) is now the best board
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For a heartstopping second, I thought we'd somehow been trolled by Terra.
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Did everyone else forget that these boards started as the Brontoforums?
My vote is for that to make a come-back, unless of course we could have... OBLIVITRON!
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/buge/mongul_gift.jpg)
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Actually I like the current theme. Mine is blue
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necessarily, I've turned mine green for as long as we're Brontoforumus.
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necessarily, I've turned mine green for as long as we're Brontoforumus.
(http://i630.photobucket.com/albums/uu23/Bon_Bon_2009/scruffy-1.jpg)
Original Resistance forums were blue, when Pyoko officially died, the WFE inherited pink, but B.R.O.N.T.O is always green.
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Kabbage you are the best.
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Oh, good. I was going to make a Greasemonkey script that made these forums look good, but this idea is better.
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Alright, first theme:
(http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/278/futuremouse2.jpg)
Here's an idea of what the layout would look like (http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/7892/futuremouselayout.jpg) if I wanted to go through the painstaking process of getting it all right before knowing if folks actually liked it.
The color options would all be neons, and it would switch whatever the primary color was (default would be pink) - I'll see what I can do about making different header colors for different color choices. I don't know if this is possible just yet.
Icons would be remade to match the style, though I'm not really sure what I'd replace the "new post" box-faces with. Probably a mouse sleeping and a mouse flying with a rainbow behind it, pixelized if I can make it work.
On all of these, tell me what you like and what you don't like. Like the name or theme but hate the look? Let me know and I can mix and match once I'm finished posting ideas. Everything can be easily tweaked, too, so don't be afraid to nitpick like motherfuckers.
Next up is a new Brontoforumus (Thursday? Probably?) Then a handful of others over the weekend.
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ow
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I like the menubar area and nothing else. Well, the idea of FUTUREMOUSE owns.
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Yeah, let's sort of steer clear of crazy, eye-searing annoying designs.
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Yeah, I like the look of this thing:
(http://img193.imageshack.us/img193/6677/bitcl.jpg)
I suppose less solids down there and more repeating shapes.
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For the record, I hate wasted space. I like everything small and relatively close without being cramped. You may want to take my future criticisms against empty space with a bit of salt.
I'd also like if we moved away from a color chooser (which is this theme specific) and toward one style being one way, another style being another way, etc., but if you're looking to rebrand WFE entirely I guess a color switcher makes some sense.
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I kind of like it, though I can understand how someone would think it's eye searing. But man, sign me up for some Future Mouse.
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:nosir:
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Can I keep the adorable dinosaur?
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Less eye-searing color (http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/3064/futuremouseorange.jpg)
For the record, I hate wasted space. I like everything small and relatively close without being cramped.
Was shooting for "simple as hell", but there definitely a ton of black on this thing. Noted.
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Less eye-searing color (http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/3064/futuremouseorange.jpg)
That hurts far less. Not sure how I feel about the black background after years of white and pink.
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You should either center the header or make one that stretches the full width. Also I liked it better with a color tint than without one.
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Agreed. Wasn't sure what the usual monitor resolution nowadays is, though. 900px images sound about right?
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Never break 960px width. It's ideal, as you can divide it by a lot of numbers (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, etc) to easily turn it into a grid of almost any size.
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Good god.
Just give me some nice, clean, sedate pastel blues, with dark clear text.
Which is what I have right now.
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I, too, appreciate the use of dinosaurs.
Can I keep the adorable dinosaur?
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I realize this is blasphemy, but some of us still use 1024x768 on the CRT monitors we've been using since 1998.
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Futuremouse should have a fishbowl on his head. But I am not picky. You make something, I'll just bitch about it later when it's inconvenient to change.
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But... Pepto-Bismol pink is so soothing.
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As long as the general reaction from people reading over my shoulder isn't "Whisky Tango Foxtrot," I'm fine with cute dinosaurs or the Mouse of All Cosmos.
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I had been using soft green myself ever since I had a frog avatar. And before that, classy light brown.
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Ever since we had the option to change colors, I've changed colors every month. It's October, so it's pink.
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So looks like people like Futuremouse concept well enough (I assume the picture too) but as a theme it's kind of sucking a D. I started adding some gradients and wireframe tiles, pushing it towards a Daft Punkish retro futurism (http://www.behance.net/Gallery/Triobelisk/110599). I think I have a better idea of where I ought to go with this now. I'll keep hacking away at at it and see if I can get something a bit more pleasing by the time we're through.
Bronto should be up either tomorrow night or Thurs, depending on what I have to do tomorrow at work.
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Gradients are terrible D:
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But... Pepto-Bismol pink is so soothing.
I had been using soft green myself ever since I had a frog avatar. And before that, classy light brown.
I've been using that third color on the left. The...grey-blue one. I'm normally looking at everything else on a black ground with white text because I hate excessive brightness so... :shrug:
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Yeah, if we could get a super dark theme with light colored text, I would be all about that.
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I don't know why those aggravate my eyes more than dark font on a white background.
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If you look at the Brontosaurus right, he kind of looks like a headless man flexing his arms.
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It looks like you're going for a kind of terminal-style dark theme with Futuremouse. Maybe we could get something that's more white-text-on-black and less half-and-half supercontrast white/black?
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I would much rather have the dinosaur than the futuremouse. Is there a way to have your choice of image, much like how you can choose your color theme? I kind of miss the original WFE logo - it was pretty simple and straightforward. Reeeaally glad the Moxie guy is gone, though.
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Reeeaally glad the Moxie guy is gone, though.
You are a fucking monster, Mr. Rosencrantz.
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Ikaruga theme. You can switch between black on white, and white on black! Also future mouse theme looks shitty. please go with something that at least looks good.
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cyan stop gaying up my thread
(http://img94.imageshack.us/img94/9953/brontotitle.jpg)
Here's an idea of what the layout would look like (http://img408.imageshack.us/img408/3149/bronto.jpg). I can't guarentee you everything will work exactly as planned until I get FTP access from Arc or whoever has that, but by all logic, if the forum layout works like I think it does, it should look like that.
The header image there is 900px, but there's ton of wasted space on my monitor. I'm going to see what I can do about just completing the back end of Bronto and curving his tail around, so that the image has no discernable "end." I also want to add a pterodactyl up there up but can't draw pterodactii.
The text colors would obviously be changed to something more visible, probably brown.
For the thread icons, I'm using the dinorun dinos. I was thinking maybe Frocto could send me better scans of his T-Rex sketches and I could make the sleeping dino as the inactive thread icon, and the stomping one as the new post icon.
Next up is sometime this weekend. I don't know about Saturday because I'm going to see Gwar's halloween show, maybe Sunday. WE'LL SEE.
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Also future mouse theme looks shitty. please go with something that at least looks good.
futuremouse was fucking amazing and you are lame
For the thread icons, I'm using the dinorun dinos. I was thinking maybe Frocto could send me better scans of his T-Rex sketches and I could make the sleeping dino as the inactive thread icon, and the stomping one as the new post icon.
Consider it done!
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yesssssssss
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I like it, except for the tree banner thingy under the main logo. I think a simpler design that doesn't clash with the background could work. The blue sky looks really out of place.
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You should check out the header image I did for my friend's site (http://www.jensrushing.com).
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Cyborg Dinosaurs that are on fire and shooting missiles at each other!
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I think the choice of white as a color for the Home/Search/Login text directly under the banner is a bad one when the sky is light blue. Blends right in.
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You should check out the header image I did for my friend's site (http://www.jensrushing.com).
So you're saying we need a volcano...
And yeah, I'll see about blending the two together at some point today.
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[17:01] Lee-Ham: but yeah, like whenever I drew a dinosaur picture as a kid
[17:01] Lee-Ham: I always made sure to have at least one volcano in the background
[17:02] Lee-Ham: so you could tell it was dinosaur times
this is fucking GOSPEL
also, I tried setting up my scanner today, but it was being a cunt, so I'm going to use a different scanner, Kabbage. You will have to wait a few days for those pictures!
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I like the new header image because now I'm not forced to scroll left and right on my android phone when surfing the site.
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cyan you fat fuck I swear to god if you post in this thread again I'm gonna ban you so hard
you're killing me here
I think the choice of white as a color for the Home/Search/Login text directly under the banner is a bad one when the sky is light blue. Blends right in.
I'll see if that can be changed. If it can, yeah, I'll be sure to match it up with whatever the background of the tool bar ends up being.
I like the new header image because now I'm not forced to scroll left and right on my android phone when surfing the site.
If it comes down to sprawling majesty verses usability on iPones, Max... :shrug:
Then again, I'm not sure how many folks around here do that. I know Det sometimes posts from his phone. Maybe it's more than I think?
also, I tried setting up my scanner today, but it was being a cunt, so I'm going to use a different scanner, Kabbage. You will have to wait a few days for those pictures!
>:(
I like it, except for the tree banner thingy under the main logo. I think a simpler design that doesn't clash with the background could work. The blue sky looks really out of place.
Gonna try changing the blue sky to a red/orange sunset color and having it flow into the header. Not sure if it'll look any good, but I won't really be able to mess around with it until after work.
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Some changes:
(http://img407.imageshack.us/img407/9953/brontotitle.jpg)
Changed the layout to flow a bit better (http://img189.imageshack.us/img189/3149/bronto.jpg). Made the color scheme more dusky.
I'll clean up the artifacts on the trees if folks like it, and again, I'll get Bronto's backside to come to an end if there's a finished product.
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Omg, I love it. Yes please.
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That is much better.
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DO WANT.
Would want MOAR if... the dinosaur didn't abruptly end.
Just saying.
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OK. That is pretty sexy Kabbage.
I feel like maybe we should explore other options before settling on that brontoforums theme.
If for no other reason than I want to see more of your arts. :wuv:
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Can it please be left so half the banner just says "I'll make some sort of repeating mountain pattern for this part"?
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I like how the look of mild interest at the erupting volcano on the face of the Brontoforumus. I also like how the current Bronotoforumus seems vaguely curious as to why someone wrote his name on his back.
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I like how the look of mild interest at the erupting volcano on the face of the Brontoforumus. I also like how the current Bronotoforumus seems vaguely curious as to why someone wrote his name on his back.
Ahah!
Yeah, like he's just been grubbing on hella club mosses when he pauses, cranes his neck around, stares blankly for a good minute
(http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/949/brontotitlehuh.jpg)
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Not sure I like the text :/
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Nah I'm not seriously proposing it.
Jokin'
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This is still happening, but um, I might have overestimated how much time I was going to have between work and my last semester at school. I'm working on the next theme and it's pretty much the best thing ever, but in the meantime, I'm going to get Bronto up in this bitch and leave it like that until we get to voting a ways down the road.
(http://img190.imageshack.us/img190/9953/brontotitle.jpg)
I'm going through all the busywork in setting up the theme file right now. No word from Arc, despite my mildly offensive text messege demanding he man the fuck up and give me the keys to FTP access >:(
Gonna try Sharkey directly, and then if that fails, we'll try hosting the file up on Kazz's webspace and see if that works. Probably Sunday hopefully?
In any event, I can assure you all that this transition will not go smoothly and that I will more than likely irreperably break something v. important. This is Kabbage's Promise.
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Brontoforumus: The mildly concerned website
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The uh... new theme. Sure is something.
Doesn't exactly look. You know.
Entirely thought out.
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TOO BIG D:
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I'm a bit concerned, though I do like the giant bronto that came out of nowhere.
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Oh crap signatures have been unleashed.
I dread going through a thread in which Niku has posted. :ohgod:
Oh wait nevermind I can disable them.
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I love it but lordy
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Miss the option to change the forum colors. :sadpanda:
Otherwise, the bronto is :perfect:
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CHANGES
IN PROGRESS
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Oh crap signatures have been unleashed.
I dread going through a thread in which Niku has posted. :ohgod:
Oh wait nevermind I can disable them.
Adblock: http://i191.photobucket.com/albums/z284/Nikumatic/*
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:over9000:
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The read and unread forum icons are too similar. Clearly, the entire venture has been an absolute waste, and we must now revert to semaphore signals from the mountaintops.
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don't change it
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logo is a bit HUEG
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FUCK NOW WE'RE IN THE MATRIX
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:profit: WAIT SWEET, GUNS :profit:
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I think he broke it...
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I GUESS IT DOESN'T BEND THAT WAY
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Bronto needs hardhat and shovel while site in progress.
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DON'T YOU PEOPLE SLEEP
IT'S LIKE 3 AM
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I think he broke it... (http://tinyurl.com/ykkmvzc)
fify
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Okay well, that's about all I'm going to deal with for today. Everything's up and running well enough so this seems like an alright place to stop at.
I'm starting the list here of Things That Need Fixin':
- The treetops up at the top didn't come out like I'd hoped, so I'm probably going to have to go in there and remove the those so it doesn't look so disjointed.
- The text colors on the control panel are pretty much invisible right now. I'll see if I can find a color that works good on the brown and on the red. Having a gradient background for the CP is an option too.
- Maybe take out the white in the CP text and search bar? I'll have to fool around with that a bit more.
If you see something that's obviously broken or looks awful or seems out of place, let me know here.
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Why is everything white? good lord my eyes!
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Why is everything white? good lord my eyes!
Tell me about it! I wake up, there's a header image, there are GIGANTIC BRONTO-SIZED signatures everywhere, the background is a sold unbroken wall of white, and tiny pterodactyls hover over everything like little stone age buzzards.
EDIT: And quote tags seem to be malfunctioning now too, I see.
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pyramidpyramidpyramidpyramid
pyramid
pyramid
pyramid
Nested quotes may be too subtle.
[spoiler]This is a spoiler[/spoiler], you [spoiler]spoil-sport[/spoiler].
Also, spoiler tags are broken?
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:barf:
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This is the worst dinosaur based forum ever.
(Stegosaurus is a jerk)
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I'm... I'm okay with Agumon. :kowhyee:
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I don't usually mind that sort of thing too much, but, uh, readability has gone down the crapper, and the brontosaurus takes up like a third of my screen.
I can't see how any new visitors with a modicum of taste would stick around for more than 15 seconds. Try again?
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The best solution for the retardedly large header (and I am in 1680x1050) is probably to find some way to split it in half so the volcano part is up top and the dinosaur is in/underneath the Hello XXXX you have 6 messages blah blah blah bar.
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Hello XXXX
Who let Demogorgon in?
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Can we just get rid of the ugly, brown mud lake altogether? It makes everything completely illegible. And Ugly.
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I thought SMF boards let users pick out a template they wanted to use. I can't just pick and use the previous scheme if I want to?
Tell me you saved the previous scheme before you put this up Kabbage. :(
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Can we just get rid of the ugly, brown mud lake altogether? It makes everything completely illegible. And Ugly.
What mud lake? Other than the giant header image and the eeirily floating icons, surfing the forums right now is like wading through a yeti's cumshot in a blizzard.
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Yeah, maybe something is broken on my end, but all I see is the BRONTOFORUMUS picture and everything else is defaulted to white with the default new thread new comment icons.
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I've used both IE and FF to browse the forums with the same result, FWIW.
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I'm on Firefox and yeah, it's a wall of white and half of everything is broken, such as Spoiler Tags.
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I've got the mud lake on Firefox 2.0.0.20, but on Chrome, it's the themeless white. At least on Firefox, quote boxes still work. [spoiler]Spoiler tags are broken on both.[/spoiler]
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firefox 3.5. white.
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I've got the latest version of Firefox. Maybe you guys just suck.
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It looks alright on my end (http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/6070/screenshotka.jpg), and Browsershots gives me it looking fine on everything but Firefox 2.0 (which the site gets blocked by, for being a spambot) and Chrome.
Can we just get rid of the ugly, brown mud lake altogether? It makes everything completely illegible. And Ugly.
Does yours look different than mine (http://img37.imageshack.us/img37/4537/screenshot2yl.jpg), or are you talking about the green hyperlink text for page numbers and such? That much will be tweaked, but as far as the message body goes, it looks fine to me.
So, we've got white background on Chrome and what else? I've got FireFox 3.5 and the things looks fine over here.
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Version 3.5.5 and it's whiter than a flour-covered Klansman chugging bleach for me.
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it's whiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiite
(http://imgur.com/78Zjt.png)
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Whoa!
Cyan: What happens when you go Tools -> Clear Recent History and then refresh?
I downgraded to 2.0 to double check and it looked alright there, now I'm at 3.5.5 and again, no problem. I'll see what I can dig up on this.
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Okay, when I logged out it was fine, and looks like your screenshot, but when I logged back in it went white again.
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Getting the same result in firefox and chrome.
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I think you need to go to the admin panel and set everyone's themes to the new theme. or reset everyone to default.
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Cyan Prime is correct. Testing in chat determined that it's the color schemes that are to blame. If you had the default Red scheme, you should see the forum normally. If you had any of the other color schemes, you'll probably see the forums with a white background, regular blue and purple hyperlinks, etc. I'd been rotating color schemes every month, so I was using the rightmost bluish purple scheme.
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And is there any way now to fix that?
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Oh. That explains it.
I thought the previous dinosaur looked bad with the red!
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Huh. I had mine on dull green, and I didn't have any problems.
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Mine was green and all I have is white. It WAS brown and green lastnight... for a few minutes.
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Huh. I had mine on dull green, and I didn't have any problems.
It's possible we're wrong about which color was the default; I know it was red when we first started, but it may have changed during the last Bronto-theme update. I was just going by what drethelin said he remembered his color as being.
In any case, if you have the white background, you should be able to log out and see what the theme looks like ordinarily. Logging back in returns it to themeless, though, and I don't know how to reset your color scheme preference.
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Dull green was the last default colour. That's the way it looked when you were logged out on the old version.
And yeah, most of us are seeing exactly what Cyan's screenshot displays and it's TERRIBLE.
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Just allow us to change our themes again so we can go back to the one that works... If its that easy.
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For me, it looks KINDA better now, but there's no background behind "you have 80 messages, 0 are new" etc etc
No more OH GOD WHITE EVERYWHERE
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Fixed now? I see the theme now.
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Just allow us to change our themes again so we can go back to the one that works... If its that easy.
Maybe? I understand folks want the option to switch back to basics, it's just a little project in itself to get that working like it oughtta. Lemme get this sorted out, and then I can see to adding the original theme where the color bar used to be.
Anyways, whitewash should be better now?
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Well hey! It's fixed! Awesome.
And I love the new Favicon.
:perfect:
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For me, it looks KINDA better now, but there's no background behind "you have 80 messages, 0 are new" etc etc
There's no background to that profile area right now, I wanted to keep it open and uncluttered. Obviously the dark green text doesn't work on brown, but I'll get to that once spoiler tags are fixed.
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Seems like the header hyperlink color would be better if it were switched with the mouseover hyperlink color. It's kinda dark.
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<Joxam> Oh kabbage, you misunderstood me.
<Joxam> I didn't mean go back to the theme of old.
<Joxam> I meant that, if you build the new theme on only one of the boards themes, we could switch to that one.
<Joxam> I wasn't bitching about the new AWESOME boards theme
<Joxam> Its great.
Of course, it probably isn't that easy...
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The green text/brown background is pretty awful to read, so you may want to tweak both those shades a little.
Header image is still enormous on a good-sized monitor and absolute hell on a mobile device.
Ability to disable theme would be pretty awesome so I could ever check this at work again.
Pretty good start, though.
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Yeah, I'll get the older theme up as a color change for folks with mobile browsers after I get all the kinks worked out with this one.
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Well, that's better than it was before at least.
Agreed on the not-so-hot green-on-brown action, but we're getting somewhere!
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I like it (http://suckramento.org/forums/Smileys/default/dc_trex.gif)
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Digimon sucks. Maybe use real dinosaurs for icons.
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Actually it kinda bugs me that the pterodactyl is smaller than the other thread icons/no icon and it makes the table rows an uneven height.
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That should just encourage you to make more thread icons.
Right? That'd solve TWO problems.
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Digimon sucks.
doom has never been more wrong
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That should just encourage you to make more thread icons.
Right? That'd solve TWO problems.
I... kinda don't like the idea of thread icons at all!
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but reading is hard
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no
reading is FUNdamental
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Digimon sucks. Maybe use real dinosaurs for icons.
They're placeholders until I can figure out a way to get Frocto's drawings (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=19.msg115039#msg115039) into vaguely attractive icons. 45x45 pixel dimensions limits what I can do, though.
Still figuring out thread icons, rather, how to add new ones. I like them well enough and I wouldn't mind finding new ones for each thread.
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I don't dislike them enough to complain forever. I just don't care if they never come back.
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Well, in any case, fixed the 'dactyls
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Pfft. Keep Agumon. He's awesome.
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for god's sake at least let me choose my own template, digimon is terrible
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Oh pshaww, don't get all up in a tizzy. I picked them because Agu's a orange dinosaur and the animations looked awesome. If you can find me something that goes as well with the color scheme, is a dinosaur, and is under 64x64 pixels I'm open to suggestions.
I honestly did not expect most people would recognize the guy.
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Fixed.
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Workin' pretty well here.
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digimon is terrible
he just keeps raising that bar!!
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They're placeholders until I can figure out a way to get Frocto's drawings (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=19.msg115039#msg115039) into vaguely attractive icons. 45x45 pixel dimensions limits what I can do, though.
(http://www.nikumatic.com/images/froctoraptor.gif)
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The new theme is pretty okay but please let us choose our own theme, so that we can have a "boring, not-doing-anything-fun" theme for when we're reading the forum at work.
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Okay, this is much better. It's a shame about how the first post on any given page is below the fold though (in 1280x1024).
And I got some weirdness with the treeline too.
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The new theme is pretty okay but please let us choose our own theme, so that we can have a "boring, not-doing-anything-fun" theme for when we're reading the forum at work.
dinos are nsfw?
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[spoiler]Trees and spoiler tags fixed[/spoiler].
They're placeholders until I can figure out a way to get Frocto's drawings (http://brontoforum.us/index.php?topic=19.msg115039#msg115039) into vaguely attractive icons. 45x45 pixel dimensions limits what I can do, though.
(http://www.nikumatic.com/images/froctoraptor.gif)
YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
oh god yes
Alright if you can do the sleeping one for "no posts here" we'll be in business.
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MUCH BETTER!
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(http://www.nikumatic.com/images/froctoraptorzzz.gif)
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Right now it's like Agumon is digivolving into Greymon. :kowhyee:
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(http://kazz.rooms.cwal.net/BrontoTheme/images/lightolive/new_none.gif)
This is pretty much the best forum skin ever now
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About the only thing I'd change with the new post icons would be a slight coloration difference. But that's probably because I've got the visual acuity of a photosensitive microbe with a single-celled eye.
Otherwise, :scanners::perfect:
Also, OH GOD I FORGOT EVERYONE LIKES USING SIGNATURES BIGGER THAN THEIR ENTIRE POSTS :ohgod:
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Forums now rule. The orange on brown text is much more pleasant to read. Well done!
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About the only thing I'd change with the new post icons would be a slight coloration difference. But that's probably because I've got the visual acuity of a photosensitive microbe with a single-celled eye.
Dunno if I'm up for tweaking the icons right now, but if someone wants to take them into photoshop and futz with the hue/saturation, BY ALL MEANS, just post it up here and I can host them up.
Also Doom you gotta get on the sig train dogg
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I'm fond of this layout.
So fond!
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dinos are nsfw?
Perhaps you have never had a job job, but, as clearly stated by the post you quoted, anyone within 100 feet of your monitor will know you're not working if this theme is up.
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I'm in agreement with what Rico said. I'd like to be able to read the forums while on break without pretty colors drawing attention.
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dinos are nsfw?
Perhaps you have never had a job job, but, as clearly stated by the post you quoted, anyone within 100 feet of your monitor will know you're not working if this theme is up.
I'm in agreement with what Rico said. I'd like to be able to read the forums while on break without pretty colors drawing attention.
Yes, this is exactly what I was talking about.
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Maybe there should be a mobile skin with little to no images/fancy colors that phones and whatever can default to, and if you're at work you can type in m.forumurl.com to go there on purpose.
No avatars, signatures, images are clickthroughs, etc.
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i would love an actual mobile forum
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SMF forums are actually fairly mobile friendly to begin with, unless the header has a huge image in it. For some reason it tries to draw the whole page default width the same as that header, but all the content such as posts will fit just fine on the screen.
So yes, alternate theme would rock. Not that the dinosaurs aren't neat, it's just some of us can't be hardcore dinosaur enthusiasts 24/7.
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Actually the old forum looked hideous on the iPhone. Had giant white streaks running down the side.
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Could you make the orange links glow a little so they don't clash as badly?
I don't know what the CSS looks like, but just add
text-shadow:0px 0px 1px #fff;
to whatever the link code looks like and it'll add a small glow. Maybe change the color. It basically takes away the sharpness of the letters.
maybe ?????
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Also I have come to love the giant image, because on my new tab page the forums are just the dinosaur. $$$
Which reminds me. If this used to be WFE, what is it now? BF?
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Who cares?
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+ Agumon
- Frocto drawing
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+Frocto drawing
-Cyan Prime
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Wow, coming back to six pages of new posts is kind of a new thing for me. Thanks, guys.
I kind of have little hope of ever being able to browse this site at work given that I now have the dreaded job job job (TRIPLE JOB!!!), so yeah good work coming up with a theme colorful enough to let me know that if I am seeing it, it is now okay to take off my pants.
Also had this sig before the theme change, just sayin'.
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+ Assrape of Lottel
- condom
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Shut up, CyanPrime.
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Shut up, CyanPrime.
He started it...
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:mahboi: YOU KIDS SHUT UP OR I'M TURNING THIS FORUM AROUND AND WE'LL GO TO GAIA INSTEAD
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Could you make the orange links glow a little so they don't clash as badly?
maybe ?????
I will do this at some point in the near future
Perhaps you have never had a job job, but, as clearly stated by the post you quoted, anyone within 100 feet of your monitor will know you're not working if this theme is up.
I'm in agreement with what Rico said. I'd like to be able to read the forums while on break without pretty colors drawing attention.
Yes, this is exactly what I was talking about.
I understand folks want the option to switch back to basics, it's just a little project in itself to get that working like it oughtta. Lemme get the main theme sorted out, and then I can see to adding the original theme where the color bar used to be.
Yeah, I'll get the older theme up as a color change for folks with mobile browsers after I get all the kinks worked out with this one.
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Waiting for an Alloforumus option. Jus' sayin'.
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more like alloborums
(http://brontoforum.us/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=1315;type=avatar): more like aloe vera
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Look, you can go fuck around on your iguanoborum all you want, but I'm sticking with the hueg possibly carrion eating dinoforums.
... And the brontoforumus, they're cool. I dug The Land Before Time.
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BRONTOSAURUSES NEVER EXIST'D
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dinos are nsfw?
Perhaps you have never had a job job, but, as clearly stated by the post you quoted, anyone within 100 feet of your monitor will know you're not working if this theme is up.
No see I've had a job, it's just anyone who was within 100ft didn't fucking -care-
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I dug The Land Before Time.
(http://judithbarsi.dc-lundberg.net/img/judith_headstone.jpg)
:;_;:
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dinos are nsfw?
Perhaps you have never had a job job, but, as clearly stated by the post you quoted, anyone within 100 feet of your monitor will know you're not working if this theme is up.
No see I've had a job, it's just anyone who was within 100ft didn't fucking -care-
If anybody has a job that does care, then they probably shouldn't be on forums at work anyway.
On the other hand my coworkers think I'm insane so it is totally reasonable in their eyes for me to have a giant dinosaur on one screen.
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If anybody has a job that does care, then they probably shouldn't be on forums at work anyway.
I like doing things on my breaks that generally permitted to do. Only without drawing a lot of attention.
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Hey, it's the Bronto!
*zip!*
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Okay, but it needs more tits.
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Well, if this new theme is indeed NSFW I suppose I can have tits in my avatar now. Where's a picture of that Sillage girl?
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Well, if this new theme is indeed NSFW I suppose I can have tits in my avatar now. Where's a picture of that Sillage girl?
??? Wake? You read Wake? :hi5:
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No. I want to, though.
ANYWAY: Kabbage, can you make it so that when there are new posts on a board, the little orange T-Rex would wag his tail?
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Okay, but it needs more tits.
The internet has you covered, my friend.
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It's amazing what modern science can teach us, isn't it?
Dinotits.
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My goodness, they're as big around as Dinosaucers.
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DI
NO
SAUCE
EEEEEeeeeeEEEEERS!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjhJSD8RU4k
THE DINOSAUCERS ARE LEAVING BOSSASAUR!!!
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Is there a way to make link-text more distinctive? It's far too similar to regular text colour.
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Okay, changed the link-text around so it should be more visible.
Could you make the orange links glow a little so they don't clash as badly?
I don't know what the CSS looks like, but just add
text-shadow:0px 0px 1px #fff;
to whatever the link code looks like and it'll add a small glow. Maybe change the color. It basically takes away the sharpness of the letters.
maybe ?????
Gave the text shadow a shot, but it looked pretty awful with a white glow, and a dark glow just make words look out-of-focus. Let me know if this is alright or not.
Perhaps you have never had a job job, but, as clearly stated by the post you quoted, anyone within 100 feet of your monitor will know you're not working if this theme is up.
I'm in agreement with what Rico said. I'd like to be able to read the forums while on break without pretty colors drawing attention.
Yes, this is exactly what I was talking about.
Added the color change bar back, but right now, only the following colors change it back to Old And Crappy:
Trying to figure out how to change the values on the dropdown, then I could expand the colors out more. If anyone had any specific color requests, I could swap out one for the other.
The title image is going to be an issue, though. It gets called outside of each color's individual stylesheet, so I can't change it without changing all of the themes.
Is there some sort of image-blocking solution that might work maybe?
Fixed.
(http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/4575/basket25.gif)
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Any thoughts on making a small dino-style icon beside the color schemes; something small as a dino-eye to switch to the dino theme? It was pretty rad for when reading at home.
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Annoyingly enough, I can't change the color icons. I can change it to a dropdown menu, which might work, but I still haven't figured out how to alter the names of the color themes from the default. If I can do that, I can just have "Brontoforumus" at the top of the dropdown, and the rest below it.
Anyways if you want to change back to Bronto as it is, just click on any color that isn't silver, red, brown or blue.
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Spoiler tags seem to be broken.
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[spoiler]Working now[/spoiler]. Accidentally reverted the style.css file when I was adding the old theme back in.
(Of course, now the button is gone. But that'll be up in a jiff)
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Okay, changed the link-text around so it should be more visible.
Gave the text shadow a shot, but it looked pretty awful with a white glow, and a dark glow just make words look out-of-focus. Let me know if this is alright or not.
It does look a lot better. Or maybe I got used to it. Either way I am fine now.
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I appreciate being able to choose between boring old style and sexy bronto style.
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This is a link (http://kazz.rooms.cwal.net/oberon.swf)
can you tell
i can
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Thank you Kabbage.
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Yay! It's pink again!
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Verra nice. The new theme is really cool and well-done, but after a while I just want things to be easy to read.
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I kept the forum on silver before the theme change, so I thought you'd just fucked it up when I opened the page today.
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Was the volcano always erupting?
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Yes. Yes it was.
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Preview text box is fucking TINY.
LP forum still displays the Sharkey icon.
LP forum is not inviting me to party.
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Was the volcano always erupting?
If it wasn't you might not realize that we are in dinosaur times. That is how these things work.
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[17:01] Lee-Ham: but yeah, like whenever I drew a dinosaur picture as a kid
[17:01] Lee-Ham: I always made sure to have at least one volcano in the background
[17:02] Lee-Ham: so you could tell it was dinosaur times
that's what I hear
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Not everyone's seen Fantasia.
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volcano is in a perfect place. When one of my backgrounds comes up it looks like the volcano is shooting rainbows.
Don't move it ever
:perfect:
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Yesterday, when I was getting lunch at a Sonic (drive in burger place), their in-restaurant radio thing played Walk The Dinosaur.
:perfect:
I even waited until after the song was over to leave.
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I just like posts using the perfect emoticon and triplets.
:perfect:
So yeah, I'm good as gravy now.
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You know what's better than three?
:perfect:
Four.
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::(:
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Right after the theme was working I downloaded the song and hosted it up on Kazz's webspace (where it now resides)
:hi5:
Unfortunately I guess we don't have the thing necessary to embed a player in the newsbar. I can only link to the download of the file itself, which is geh. I will probably fix this when finals are over but I PROMISE NOTHING.
Also I wanted to do the same with Niku's sig in implanting a streaming MP3 of the following right above godzilla:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1A1Zp25dhg
(or better yet make it autoplay somehow when someone scrolls over it)
These are of course empty promises until such time as your minds are blown
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If only there was some way to make the theme play only when Niku's sig is on screen, and then stop when it's not, so even glossing over it to read the next post results in a second-long DUNNUNAH DUNNUNAH DUNNUNAH DUNNUNAH DUNNUNAH DUNNUNAH DUNNUNAH DUNNUNAH and then back to Cannon talkin' bout vidgamez
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Kabbage, I take back what I said earlier about not wanting music playing in the LP forum. I favour it being as hard to use as possible, soooo yes, if you have it open it should be blaring PARTY HARD at all times.
Also, flashing red and blue. If you flat out do not know how to do this stuff, I will just go ask terra.
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how will we hear your LPs if there is music playing Frocto
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(http://brontoforum.us/index.php?action=dlattach;attach=2124;type=avatar): Forget it, forget it!
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Please make a:visited look less like non-link text.
Thanks in advance.
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The error page for going to a thread that doesn't exist still uses the old favicon.
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Pretty much every page is using the old favicon right now
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THE ENTIRE BOARD IS LP DUNGEON YES YES YES YES YES YES
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YOU BASTARDS
YOU BLEW IT UP
YOU BLEW IT ALL UP
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was uhh
was trying to figure out how to set thread icons again
might have broken something
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I'm pretty sure I need full FTP access to set those things.
god damn you arc RELEASE YOUR POWER TO ME :MENDOZAAAAA:
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The favicons should be fixed now.
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:itsatrap:
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Frocto wrathfix is still IN PROGRESS I haven't forgotten but it's gonna be a bit of a pain in the ass so I've become pretty good at putting it off
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Is anyone else getting yellow text down here in the quick reply box? Is it supposed to be yellow?
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Is anyone else getting yellow text down here in the quick reply box? Is it supposed to be yellow?
It's in the normal reply box too! I'm peeing all my posts! WHEEEE
Actually the form inputs and buttons look odd, too. I bet Kabbage broke something! Or he's being avant-garde! PEEING MY POSTS IS KIND OF EXCITING
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Peeing? Really? I thought most of your posts were shit!
:nyah:
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oh jesus WHAT HAVE I DONE
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Alright, should be the color of black pee now.
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You should probably get that checked out. [/obligatory]
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Pee-plying sounds fantastic and makes me sad that I'm stuck on a browser with no actual color at the moment.
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Not to rush you, and I am not saying this with the expectation that I will see it next week or even next month, but I hope you didn't abandon the concept of FUTURE MOUSE entirely. Since it was pretty awesome.
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Not to rush you, and I am not saying this with the expectation that I will see it next week or even next month, but I hope you didn't abandon the concept of FUTURE MOUSE entirely. Since it was pretty awesome.
I'm still planning on going with some kind of sweet Daft Punkish retro-80's-futurism (http://psdtutsarticles.s3.cdn.plus.org/interview_Sakke_Soini/7.jpg) thing with FutureMaüs and make it an alternative skin, but I have no idea when exactly I'm going to hunker down and get that done. I've got some other things I wanted to get out first, like Geo's game graphics and maybe some fiction alongside Eva.
It'll eventually get done, just not in the next few months. I've also got another sweet theme with a magic whale BUT LATER, LATER
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Aside from the terrible text input, having to delete your cache every now and then, and a crawling load speed, viewing this forum on a PSP works better than I thought it would. With avatars and signatures off, anyway. Which is nice for when your pc won't boot.
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(http://bayimg.com/image/baknmaacf.jpg)
Pink huh?
THAT'S new.
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HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY
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What th
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Mine isn't pink...
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What th
Mine isn't pink...
:wat:
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:>_>:
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Mine isn't pink...
I'd recommend seeing a gynaecologist.
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I'd rather do that than see a dentist
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I'm still planning on going with some kind of sweet Daft Punkish retro-80's-futurism (http://psdtutsarticles.s3.cdn.plus.org/interview_Sakke_Soini/7.jpg) thing with FutureMaüs and make it an alternative skin, but I have no idea when exactly I'm going to hunker down and get that done.
80s futurism, mmmmmmm, I love you Kabbage.
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(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v316/buge/reaction/daftpunk8.png)
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Made some tweaks to fix a bunch of those little annoying cutoffs and color issues. Stuff like reply preview and the newsbar background should look better now.
Right now I'm aiming to get Futuremäus out the door before Tron Legacy hits PROMISE TOTALLY
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no no no I love dinosaurs
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbfMLE4De2s
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Heeeey. Dinos and retro-futurism can totally live on the same boards.
have some of the colorschemes be dinos and the rest be Futuremaus.
Then everyone can fight because half are Futurenauts and the rest are BronotoBros. And we all love that!
:perfect:
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(http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/4329773/2/istockphoto_4329773-robot-dinosaur-vector-illustration.jpg)
Is this what you want, Lotton Brown? You'll damn us all.