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Do you like the new "look"?
Yeah! It's great, I'm sick of subSilver
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It's better, but could be better yet...
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Doesn't matter to me
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I liked subSilver better, how do I change back?!
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What's all this talk about a new "look"?
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 4:04 am    Post subject: New "look" -- whata ya think? Reply with quote

Figured it was appropriate to start a new thread to see what others think of the new "look".

Comment and vote.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 4:19 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

i like it a lot, but i think there still something to make it better, hmm i just dont know what it is.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 4:22 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Very nice!
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 4:33 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

The style is o.k., but the violet coloured text is not eye-friendly imho.


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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 4:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Is it just me, or does the Quick Search not work (yet)?
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 4:38 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Well, it's somewhat more consistent with the rest of the site, which is good, but not quite consistent enough.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 4:45 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

karmakillernz wrote:
Is it just me, or does the Quick Search not work (yet)?


Umm, whoops. I forgot to edit the template and the form didn't have an action. All better. :) Try it now.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 5:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Why not make it copmpletely consistant w/ the rest of the site. The purple isn't the best color, imo. the quick search is nice.
The topic review is still the old style.

So are the buttons.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 5:25 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's really nice, especially because I've seen SubSilver in so many other places (heck, even the phpBB I run uses SubSilver), and I'm definitely sick of it. It's nice to have a distinctive, original look for the Gentoo Forums.

One thing: when I'm replying in a thread, the messages in the topic review still look the way they did in SubSilver.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 5:42 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Nitro wrote:
karmakillernz wrote:
Is it just me, or does the Quick Search not work (yet)?


Umm, whoops. I forgot to edit the template and the form didn't have an action. All better. :) Try it now.


Ahh very nice! :D

Great work to everyone involved, I like it a lot.

Edit: With the Quick Search, it shows the results as posts. Is there any way to get it to show them as threads? :)
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 8:16 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

with phpbb's great customization features, it's a shame no one puts them to use.. glad to see our forums finally got a face lift!
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 9:21 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

This isn't really important, but it's almost frightening how the new color scheme is almost identical to that of my avatar...
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 10:13 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Excellent choice of colours. This is especially great for BBCoded URLs, it's almost impossible to accidentally overlook links now. Great job, nice artwork, too, and thanks for the quick search function... :)
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 10:36 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Soo...can you make the rest of the site (www.gentoo.org) have that nice banner up top too =)
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 1:48 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

nice indeed.

althou the color of the background behind this text coule be changed to something more like the textlink color :)
and make it a litle bit less wider
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 1:51 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It definately was a pleasant surprise.

I just came from another forum which changed its look, and this was the last thing I expected. But I like it. 8O
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 3:02 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I voted "It's better but could be better yet..." because it _is_ better but nothing is perfect, so ;)

But it's nice, really
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 3:34 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Ah, the quick search function... moderators love it 8)

plate wrote:
Excellent choice of colours. This is especially great for BBCoded URLs, it's almost impossible to accidentally overlook links now. Great job, nice artwork, too, and thanks for the quick search function... :)

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 3:35 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I love it, though every post on the board is marked as read... while I haven't read most of them :(

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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 3:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great new look.... One problem though : when I do reply to a message, past mesages appear at bottom with the old style (subSliver).

Happy new year to all gentoo-ers !
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 4:06 pm    Post subject: I'm in shock. Reply with quote

fuck man...I'm in shock...damn, after I opened the forum I though I got into in a wrong place...but this is the right one :-)
I'm in love with the new "face".

Thanks for the gift.
Happy New Year
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 4:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Carlos & pascall wrote:
One problem though: when I do reply to a message, past mesages appear at bottom with the old style (subSliver).

I knew when I left last night I had to do some more CSS tweaking, but I figured the only noticable problem was with the PM pop-up. Guess I was wrong. It is fixed now, but the CSS style sheet still needs to be tweaked for size a little more (remember our 56k buddies :)).

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I'm in shock, after I opened the forum I thought I got into in a wrong place...but this is the right one

lol, think about the 30 or so people that were browsing the forums when I flipped the switch. Some were in the middle of a post. :lol:
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 5:03 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

The new theme looks sharp. Two quibbles:

  • Useful links (www.gentoo.org, etc.) have now moved to the bottom of the main page. There is a lot of "unused space" on the right of the gentoo image at the top. I think the links can be moved there. The old theme was better in this regard.
  • Text in the "FAQ|Search|Memberlist..." bar does not stand out very well against the dark background.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 5:38 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I like it, but the postreply etc. buttons are still in old style colors, I don't really like that combination. Also this may be a good time to change the charset to charset=iso-8859-15?
I'm also in favor of copying/moving ( I prefer copying) the "links:" section to the top (but not to the right of the logo, the way it is now attracts more attention to the quicksearch button, which is a good thing (tm) IMHO.
Last and probably least, I think that the FAQ, Search etc. line and even more the "Links:" line should be centered.
Not sure if it's better yet.
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PostPosted: Wed Jan 01, 2003 5:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

I accidently double posted just know and I noticed another bug kinda thingy. The "delete this post" button isn't lined out properly here, I'm using "Mozilla 1.2b - Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Win98; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021016" in 1024*768
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