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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.

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.
"Search is now available for all users who can make posts."

Are you gonna make search available on the old forum theme, or is this only for the modern themes?
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Edit: OK, so I can search my own posts and others through the 'Find more posts by...' option with the old theme, but shouldn't there be a Search option under the community tab (where I can access generalized advanced search functions)?
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Edit edit: OK OK, so I can access the general search function by using the site map at the bottom that shows up after going to the 'Find more posts by' options.

Or is it just missing in the community tab for me? I know some perms have been fked around with due to lmod and just general messing with me. In any case, add search to community tab pls.
Last edited by Ele; Dec 3, 2019 at 05:46 PM.
Ele: search should be next to community button now

Dark theme is now the new default. If you want to switch to the old theme, choose "Toribash Legacy" option in User CP here: https://forum.toribash.com/profile.php?do=editoptions
Originally Posted by sir View Post
Ele: search should be next to community button now

Dark theme is now the new default. If you want to switch to the old theme, choose "Toribash Legacy" option in User CP here: https://forum.toribash.com/profile.php?do=editoptions

I appreciate the effort sir but thank Hampa I can still use the old layout. I just prefer the old one.
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Originally Posted by Greg View Post
the postbit needs to be revamped imo. Also, the dark theme is just a little bit "too" dark. Is there a reason the user info doesn't float the same way it does on legacy?

Userinfo part, what exactly do you mean? If you have any suggestions regarding postbit, go ahead.

Originally Posted by Ezeth View Post
I think most things that undergo such drastic changes will make you go "I want the old one back" at first, but this is really an amazing change, I really like the modern theme in light mode, great job sir!

Did some fixes to light theme, we never really got to make it good so I'll likely keep tweaking it in future.

Originally Posted by kouta View Post
The new theme won't turn off for me, even though it's off in my settings... Imo the old forum is easier to navigate.

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