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Forums Visual Overhaul
Hi, we're currently working on visual overhaul for forums and would like to gather some of your thoughts / showcase what we've got so far.
This thread (and this post in particular) will be receiving updates as we add more stuff.
You can also try it yourself by enabling "Modern" forum skin in User CP options: https://forum.toribash.com/profile.php?do=editoptions
Base theme will be dark but we'll also be making a light one based on it once it's finished.
You'll still be able to use current default styling (forums only) if you wish.
Some misc info:
- New visuals are built with Bootstrap.
- All pages scale accordingly to your device screen size. On some pages, that would also hide less important information for devices with smaller screens (see screenshots below).
- Fonts we use are Roboto, Roboto Condensed for top navigation and Badaboom.
- We want to bring back post voting/rating system.
- Search is now available for all users who can make posts.
- Social groups and Competitions modules have been disabled due to their redundancy.
Some details on breadcrumbs:
Breadcrumbs (top dark bar with "Toribash Community / Toribash / ..." text) is always visible and will stick to top of your screen both in desktop and mobile mode. In mobile, it's also used to hold a button to open main navigation menu.
Quick search will search for threads or posts within forum section, board or thread you're currently viewing. For example, searching "Overhaul" from forum home, News board and this thread will give you three different results. If you want to apply custom search settings, choose "Advanced search" option from the right breadcrumbs dropdown menu. When viewing user's page (member.php), it will search for the user under specified name.
This thread (and this post in particular) will be receiving updates as we add more stuff.
You can also try it yourself by enabling "Modern" forum skin in User CP options: https://forum.toribash.com/profile.php?do=editoptions
Base theme will be dark but we'll also be making a light one based on it once it's finished.
You'll still be able to use current default styling (forums only) if you wish.
Some misc info:
- New visuals are built with Bootstrap.
- All pages scale accordingly to your device screen size. On some pages, that would also hide less important information for devices with smaller screens (see screenshots below).
- Fonts we use are Roboto, Roboto Condensed for top navigation and Badaboom.
- We want to bring back post voting/rating system.
- Search is now available for all users who can make posts.
- Social groups and Competitions modules have been disabled due to their redundancy.
Forum Home
Board view
Thread view
Member.php
User CP
Some details on breadcrumbs:
Breadcrumbs (top dark bar with "Toribash Community / Toribash / ..." text) is always visible and will stick to top of your screen both in desktop and mobile mode. In mobile, it's also used to hold a button to open main navigation menu.
Quick search will search for threads or posts within forum section, board or thread you're currently viewing. For example, searching "Overhaul" from forum home, News board and this thread will give you three different results. If you want to apply custom search settings, choose "Advanced search" option from the right breadcrumbs dropdown menu. When viewing user's page (member.php), it will search for the user under specified name.
Last edited by sir; Sep 26, 2019 at 12:11 PM.
Originally Posted by Wounder
Not sure if it's sjust me but when i'm typing like righjt now the text is all black, and the forums are also black, which means I can't see my text when I type
You need to disable WYSIWYG editor in control panel, it's likely set as default for you (and well, everyone else who's getting the same issue). It used to be disabled for almost all modern browsers as vB backend we use doesn't know Chrome / Chrome-based browsers exist.
I'll make it work properly tomorrow, now it uses default black text / transparent bg combo that makes it unreadable on dark theme.
WYSIWYG editor would also be the reason for error 500 when entering advanced post edit mode, that will also get fixed next week.
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Originally Posted by Sora
Can we get the upvote and downvote buttons? I think it would be fun to watch reactions
Yes, but a bit later. Plan is to make it somewhat similar to reddit's upvote system.
Last edited by sir; Sep 29, 2019 at 08:11 AM.
Reason: <24 hour edit/bump
Display post backgrounds setting appears to have the descriptions flipped (Enable disables, Disable enables)
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Another suggestion I made a while ago, what about making Toribash Staff list with each staff title/charge matching with its color? (Sorry if I shouldn't be suggesting ideas in this thread, but im availing the forum update)
I know it is supposed to be intuitive but I always think about newcomers possibly getting confused with some mingled colors, like Market Squad for instance
I know it is supposed to be intuitive but I always think about newcomers possibly getting confused with some mingled colors, like Market Squad for instance
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