Posted August 19, 20204 yr comment_2781783 Why is the forum background now (as in, up to a day ago) blindingly white? My only recourse is to use a Firefox add-on called "Dark Reader".
August 19, 20204 yr Author comment_2781805 The text that I am currently typing is impossible to see unless highlighted. Is this what it feels like to be a drow on the surface?
August 19, 20204 yr comment_2781814 I caught it in the middle and went huh? I like it, though yes I agree it could be more of an off white.
August 19, 20204 yr comment_2781859 The site is also super slow right now. It takes several seconds to load/navigate to any page.
August 19, 20204 yr comment_2781885 I'd also like to turn the sidebar off. And a font size option would be very helpful. As would the ability to change the colors, but that can be more problematic.
August 19, 20204 yr comment_2781886 I suspect the theme was reset due to a software update. Perhaps Simon will have to re-customize it back to where it was?
August 19, 20204 yr comment_2781888 Ah....histrionics. OH GOD....MY EYES! The goggles -- they do nothing! The background went from slightly grayed white to white. Why...it's like nothing I've ever seen before! No other place on the internet would EVER do this kind of thing. Well...except for Facebook, Twitter, Reddit.... Stop griping.
August 19, 20204 yr comment_2781892 I tried Dark Reader for Chrome for all of about 2 minutes. Unwanted side effects galore with other things, such as my themes for my GMail pages, and with a dark theme I was using on a different site. And it slowed initial page display down a bit. Simon...I went to a dark theme for FB because the white was too much. And we are your customers, we have the right to gripe. I've NEVER liked pure white as the dominant color.
August 19, 20204 yr comment_2781893 Wait...you're paying for access to the site that I admin for free? Really? How dare I update the site, including modifications to the default theme. Why...it's downright dastardly. Likely intended just to piss you off.
August 19, 20204 yr comment_2781902 And we have to blithely approve of the changes? We're pointing out aspects of the change that raise issues...not that you tweaked things in the first place. Seems like you're taking this personally; it's not.
August 19, 20204 yr comment_2781904 In a word: yes. In more words: think of it as being in someone else's house. If you want to raise issue with their choice in wallpaper or change in paint color, you likely want to be at least somewhat circumspect in that. Histrionics do not benefit anyone.
August 19, 20204 yr Author comment_2781917 Thankfully, I have a page open that displays the forums before the alteration; I'll see about uploading a comparison. The difference is virtually night and day. Edit -> The previous forum color scheme was an unappealing glare (though not quite this bad). I turned to a Firefox add-on called "Dark Background and Light Text" that ended up being useful not only for this HERO haunt, but also other forums that (for whatever reason) have embraced emulating snow blindness. For the longest time, this bit of software worked just fine without my intervention; I never had to adjust it or otherwise engage in any sort of regularly occurring maintenance. It appears the add-on stopped functioning here about two days ago. I revisited those previously mentioned forums to ensure that the add-on hadn't failed completely. "Dark Background and Light Text" is still functioning properly on other websites. Strange... (In case anyone is interested, you can alter the background color and text color with the aforementioned add-on.)
August 19, 20204 yr comment_2781921 Ragjitu I personally hate black backgrounds. I can’t read anything on it. 😂
August 19, 20204 yr comment_2781923 Yeah...black text on white background....it’s unheard of. Blinding. Unusable. Realizing that histrionics won’t help your cause yet?
August 19, 20204 yr comment_2781925 How much of this is about disliking change of ANY kind as opposed to an actual problem with the new format? Meanwhile, thank you Simon for your hard work maintaining this joint in the first place.❤️❤️
August 20, 20204 yr comment_2781940 The only thing I don't like is the new two-colum format for topics, with the summary info at top, and the text boxes for the posts being narrowed. Once you scroll past the right hand content, you get a ton of white space. That's relatively easily fixed from my end, though. Oh! I see that's already gone! Oops, not gone. Just not on all post. Maybe it's just a stat block for popular posts? 🤷♂️ I do prefer black letters on white text. This gray text fad over the last few years infuriates me.
August 20, 20204 yr comment_2781941 In reading Ragitsu's post, I think it is about disliking a change that lost functionality/compatibility (with an addon he uses) that was previously present and working without issue. I think the issue is that forum software can't be expected to work with every third-party addon out there in perpetuity. And just because said addon works with other sites doesn't obligate this site to maintain compatibility with it as a priority.
August 20, 20204 yr comment_2781942 Just a side note: As I pointed out in my first post in the thread: Every time this forum software gets updated, the theme seems to get reset. You guys should be used to this by now. I can see how Simon's annoyed by the tone of some of the responses. Given that Simon's been keeping our little hangout running through the apocalypse here, and tensions are high due to 2020 being a suckfest, we should probably cut him some slack. I've been on the board since like 1999 or 2000, and it's not been as well-run as it has been under Simon. Let's all hold hands and sing kumbaya, now. At least we can still asynchronously communicate.
August 20, 20204 yr comment_2781945 33 minutes ago, Pattern Ghost said: The only thing I don't like is the new two-colum format for topics, with the summary info at top, and the text boxes for the posts being narrowed. Once you scroll past the right hand content, you get a ton of white space. That's relatively easily fixed from my end, though. Oh! I see that's already gone! Oops, not gone. Just not on all post. Maybe it's just a stat block for popular posts? 🤷♂️ It looks like it'll be present on posts that exceed a certain number of pages over a period of time -- a way to keep track of potentially useful/popular/interesting posts that may otherwise get lost. Edit: I've changed it so that it should show under the first post in a thread rather than as a sidebar.
August 20, 20204 yr comment_2782079 Hmm..."I dislike this issue and here is why" receives a polite response and a change. "AAAAAHHHHH The sky is falling! THE SKY IS FALLING!!" is received with a more dismisive tone. Go figure. It took me a couple of minutes to find "mark forum read" after the change. It's perfectly readable. I am pretty sure either Windows or my monitor, maybe both, can adjust brightness, if the light from your monitor is scorching the wall it faces.
August 20, 20204 yr comment_2782143 19 hours ago, Pattern Ghost said:asynchronously communicate. For the dum-dums like me that means “sing like a bag of cats on fire“? Or a Justin Bieber concert?
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