Feedback for the forums?

[Aile~♥]

^ what Role said.

[Atrius (He/They)]

 

*Part of the problem has to do with how SMF's admin system handles allowing you to change images for themes, or rather that it doesn't.  It's one of many things I need to look into.

[Rolina]

Well, that's great and all, but...

I was asking Charon.  The one who's supposed to be in charge of cosmetics so you can focus on the editor.

[Atrius (He/They)]

Who decided that?  You?

Besides, if she can't change the images, how could she even do it properly?

[Rolina]

I thought you did?  I could have sworn you gave Charon admin powers so they can help out with the Forum Admin duties, such as cosmetics, new forum categories, etc... so you could focus on the editor more.  Was I wrong?

[Atrius (He/They)]

They way you're saying it is rubbing me the wrong way, like it's the only reason she's here for, but she's not doing it.

[Rolina]

Ah, then you're hearing me wrong.

It's not that she's not doing it, so much as she's not only unfamiliar with it and is having connectivity troubles.  I'm asking her how well she's been able to familiarize herself with it so that things can get back up to speed.  Not everyone has leet programming powers like you, y'know?

[Charon]

Yay!



We now have a new Venus theme, as well as a new Forum Default theme. You can thank Atrius for giving me a copy of the Jupiter theme, so I could edit and upload it. now stop complaining

[Rolina]

Venus theme needs a few kinks worked out - click on a forum when you're in the skin.  See the symbol legend below the topics?  See how a good solid half of it is purple, which is NOT a color attributed to venus?  Yeeeeeah...

I'll check around in the default theme to see if I can find anything on it.

[Hoopa]

The bottom half of the symbols guide in the unread topics section is also purple in the default theme

[Rolina]

The same thing is in the default theme...

He's right.  It's the exact same thing.  So... yeah, verification, GET!  It's not just one person! \o/

Also, the default theme is REALLY bright.  Instead of yellow, why not make it gold?  Remove a little bit of green from it and it should work.  I think the Hex Code for gold is F7DD00, if memory serves correct.  Also, dunno if this is intentional, but... the quote box in the Venus theme is yellow... seems a little off, but not by much.

[Charon]

I'll look into it during lunch today. (scratch that stupid 1000+ student English class had to kick me out) I might also redo the yellow bars in the default theme.

I'm thinking about changing the default's colours monthly, to give us a bit of variation. So around the end of June, expect a new colour scheme.

[Rolina]

So, you mean a kind of seasonal thing?  That'd be kinda cool.  I can see pale blue for January, pink for February, light green for March, etc...

[Charon]

Yup, although the logo will stay the same.

[Charon]

Default theme was upgraded a bit - will work on the Venus theme later.

[Rolina]

Is there a way to have multiple colors for each position, depending on which clan the position holder is in?  It'd be nice if all of Jupiter was various shades of Purple, you know?

[Atrius (He/They)]

It would be nice to separate the clan system from the regular user positions, and have it do something different like put the symbol ( ) beside your name, or something like that.

[Rolina]

Well, I figured that we could do it like this:

For the color of the user title, it looks at the three positions of a member...

Position 1 being their rank (Admin, GM, CH Leader, CH Main Staff, Member)
Position 2 being their clan (Deity, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars, Venus, Unclanned)

Position 1 determines the shade, Position 2 determines the color.

Something like that.  Dunno what the third position's even there for, though.  Perhaps that's what's looked at for Post count, and thus the Count Title (where my Miracle Member status comes from, I guess).

[Atrius (He/They)]

The "Forum Member" user group is just to make handling permissions easier.  This way if the default permissions that everyone has change for whatever reason (like adding a new sub forum that everyone should be able to use) we don't have to fiddle with settings for every single special user group since they get inherited from the "Forum Member" group instead.

[Rolina]

Ah, so that's what the third one is for.  Still, I think my idea for determining color could work well.