Hi guys! New forum theme is nice.
Though, I have several comments/questions.
About the new look of the list of topics. Topic captions are of the same font and almost the same color as the following line containing author and topic creation date, which makes looking through the list of topics more difficult then it is used to be. Please make topic captions brighter/more standing out.
Where is the ROS code syntax highlighting gone?
What happened to karma?
Also (not related to the new forum theme) since you’ve created a separate forum for announcements, can you please stop sticking topics like “6.22 released!” to multiple forums at once, because this makes some forum functions like links to the first unread post in a topic misbehave badly.
A. Fonts make forum long…it means too many pages to scroll…especially with wide screens.
B. Too light colors = “where is the light gray link on dark white background ?”
C. Real admins use keayboard on real computers, not tablets so please make smaller icons.
Agree about all the above - I really dont like this too light and too bright color scheme.
Also:
“View unread posts” functionality is gone.
All “View x posts” buttons now require one more click. Before they were right at the top.
This is not much, but its an extra click, wait for manu to appear, click again every single time… just wasting time.
With this color scheme, everything seriously blends together…
The link between a post and a user’s signature is too thin - not visible enough.
The “View unread posts” is not gone - it’s at the “Forum” menu on top, renamed to “View new posts” (“unread” is implied).
I don’t mind the color scheme, but the “big”-ness of the fonts and boxes is a little off putting indeed. I like Windows 8.1’s start menu, but even I don’t spend most of my time on it, so…
It is gone.
“View unread posts” and “View new posts” are 2 totally different functions.
“unread” is NOT implied, as “View new posts” shows posts already red.
Oh no, the plague got here too. Well, it sure does look modern, congratulations. Too bad “modern” these days means big, space-wasting, contrast-less, eye-burning, … did I forget something? All in all, nothing positive.
Any chance you could offer an optional alternative look without all these shortcomings? Something like previous one?
+1 for View unread posts. It is the biggest problem for me right now.
Also as other mentioned all can be made smaller. Maybe an option to change font size or other visibility settings.
Please, go back to old fashion look style for phpbb forum, or at least enable the users to set the style individually. This “new” style is wasting the screen space that was used much more effectively before.
And is awful.
The spacing’s all wrong. The horizontal line shows the break between posts where everything’s all crammed together and the arrowed area shows white space I didn’t create which creates a false break between posts.
I enjoyed new forum look. Only problems is lack of contrast, color sheme which doesn’t look like MikroTik.com (where is red and green?) and already reported missing karma module.
I miss the “mark forums read” button on the board index page. It is there under the “forum” dropdown list, but I still miss it as a single click action.
No, normis, not at all. Even the people are not the same, the money paid for their output is the same. If you have money for such things why you do not have money to pay the good and experienced software development quality manager that will take care of your development process to ensure you are not breaking in subsequent release anything that was good in previous release? Why you spend money on the forum look and not on dude, for example?
Do you think that this change will bring new customers and rise your profit? Or how it should help you? I have not seen any reason for such change, so why you did so?
so please make smaller icons.
Well, it sure does look modern, congratulations. Too bad “modern” these days means big, space-wasting, contrast-less, eye-burning, … did I forget something? All in all, nothing positive.