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these black and elite themes for this forum need a little work I like dark themes because I'm computing from sofa with my 60inch plasma screen and like the darker themes for my eyes. The black minimal is the best. But would use the Elite one if something was done with those bright hard orange lines. CIG forums are far easier on the eye I think than this Elite theme. Well, to my sensitive eyes on a 60inch plasma screen at least.

I find the hard bright orange lines hard to look at for any period of time. Softer might help and less off them. More subtle softer orange would be good for me. Or an option for that version. Maybe not using black black for the background but follow the extremely dark but not black example set by CIG forums. Easy on the eye for long periods when not using black 255, but rather a color near black, a complementary to the orange maybe.

Overall the styling seems a little 4 years ago, rather than 2014/15 and onwards.


And how to set the default preference to either black minimal, or Elite black and orange? I set it in general settings (and save) and it just changes back to horrid white the very next page.
 
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I think these are red herrings. It seems to be intermittent. I was able to post one minute, then not the next. It may be that it seems to work/not work in particular browser/add-in combinations, but what you're seeing is actually just indeterminacy.

Alas not intermittent for me - 100% fail with Chrome, 100% working with IE :'(

EDIT: On the 'plus side' - I like the new look - much cleaner and tidier - just wish the 'reputation' icon was much more obvious.
 
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I think these are red herrings. It seems to be intermittent. I was able to post one minute, then not the next. It may be that it seems to work/not work in particular browser/add-in combinations, but what you're seeing is actually just indeterminacy.
Intermittent is right - I haven't been able to post for a while, but now I can (I hope).
 
Make sure when you've cleared the cookies that the first URL you visit doesn't have the mobile skin in it.

Thanks noodle... not sure how but I managed to clear cookies and log on... was sent to the 'mobile' forum page as soon as I logged... but found a 'main site' button which worked this time...

Was able to revert my skin settings from there !
 
1. I'll see what I can do with the main forum transparency settings.
2. They should be a click to activate, if not - what theme(s) are you using? Are you using HTTP or HTTPS to access the forums?
3. Will see what the others at Frontier think about it.
4. I'll see what I can do about bringing up the color on the lines for signatures.
5. Yeah... about that little button... ;) It's very low on priority right now to modify and add text to it.
6. That is intentional (there's moderator stuff down in them there spaces!).

Thanks for your feedback, it's much appreciated. :)
Sorry for the delay, for a while there I couldn't post at all - Teething problems, I suspect.

2) Official Elite theme, HTTPS. Now using the new constrained theme of the same, and the buttons do seem to be click to activate now. I'll give the non-constrained version another whirl and report back. [Edit] Nope, fixed there too.

3) Now being on my desktop instead of my laptop, the color looks a bit less harsh. Definitely looks orange instead of red now. Unless you already went and changed something.

6) Sneaky mods stealing our space! That space only seems to be there for users who have a signature though, if you look three posts above this one there's no such gap (or at least it's smaller) [Edit: Or it WAS smaller until he edited his post. Now the gap has appeared again due to the edit notification]. It would be nice if it could be eliminated somehow for a little less vertical scrolling when reading a thread.

Oh, and a quick note: Just in the time it took me to drive home and check back on my desktop, the forums already feel more polished, with lots of little changes I'm noticing. That's some fast work :)
 
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Alas not intermittent for me - 100% fail with Chrome, 100% working with IE :'(

I found how to get it to work for me with Chrome.

Go to settings tab (up right hand corner of screen on forum page).

Inside the settings page go to the general settings sub tab using the menu on the left of the screen...

Scroll down almost to the bottom of the page and select :

Enhanced Interface - Full WYSIWYG Editing

Hope this helps !
 
Having real problems using it on an android cell phone (samsung galaxy s5). I normally use the "opera" browser but that gives me no end of troubles... In "mobile" mode it doesn't give me any buttons eg: page buttons in threads, spoiler buttons etc. If I hit the "full site" link down the bottom it gives me a page not found error. If I change opera's setting to report it as a desktop things seem to work better but the editor won't give me quotes or let me enter text when replying (i tried all 3 editor settings).

Using android's built in browser seems to work better, the full site link works, I can quote and enter text, but so far I've noticed that the " spoiler" buttons don't seem to work in this one.
 
No, wait, I see the user online user list now...


There are currently 17 moderators knocking about...that's not overkill, is it? :rolleyes:
 
Overall, I rather like the new look (teething problems aside) - even the orange outlines.
No 24hr time display option though - damn! Ah well, worse things happen in space!
 
I found how to get it to work for me with Chrome. Go to settings tab (up right hand corner of screen on forum page). Inside the settings page go to the general settings sub tab using the menu on the left of the screen... Scroll down almost to the bottom of the page and select : Enhanced Interface - Full WYSIWYG Editing Hope this helps !
Ah you little beauty!!!!
Perfect all sorted, my only regret being that I can only give you +1 reputation. Many thanks!!!!!!!!!!
Strongly suggest FDev 'sticky' this post on fixing issues with Google Chrome
 
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Ozric

Volunteer Moderator
Hi Brett,

I've just noticed when I made two posts in the same thread in a short space of time, it automatically merged them together.

Is there any way to turn that off as sometimes you would want to distinguish between 2 posts? If not could you tell me how long you have to wait to be able to make a second post without it being merged?

Cheers
 
I think its either too bright or to dark.
would like to see something in between.
especially if you use a full-led tv there only one choice really.
cause the bright one is then blinding for real.
televisions emit far more light then monitors , but its becoming more and more common to play on them.
the stars look awesome on them btw.
 
Help; Can't post on new forum

Have to do this on my mobile phone, text area is not accessible on my pc, using either chrome or ie.

I can put in a title, but nothing else. This just started happening...
 
Trying out different options. I quite like the Hybrid thread display mode but am wondering if the list could stay centered on the currently open sub tree. Bit of pain having to scroll it back to where you were every time you go back to it. Unless some browser respond differently, I am using is Firefox 32.0.3
 
Have to do this on my mobile phone, text area is not accessible on my pc, using either chrome or ie.

I can put in a title, but nothing else. This just started happening...

I had exactly this problem briefly too. I'm using Firefox. I don't know whether it was because I'd tried to change the theme or not.
 
Why are peoples visitor messages being shown under "New Discussions" I would have thought they were messages not public discussions and also maybe private ?
 
There appear to be a few teething issues.

A temp fix is to go to Settings -> General Settings -> Miscellaneous Options and then tick Enhanced Interface - Full WYSIWYG Editing.
 
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