[Rules/Moderator] What color should we use for our forum?

[noa]

Your approach is one of trolling and being a know it all. #justsaying
and VERY matter of factly. IF you want someone to listen to you. Talk to them not AT them .

Power to you to interpret my posts as you wish I guess.

 

[ScottulusMaximus]

@ScottulusMaximus We've changed the background to something a little more uniform and muted. Does this make it more "readable"

Way more! Looks awesome actually.

 

[DeathTap_ZA]

I do like the green theme, looks funky and new,

Great work on the new forum guys! love it

 

[RexTrueform]

The background is 1000x better now

 

[iamgigglz]

Yep, gotta say I though people were bitching way too much but this new background is definitely an improvement.

 

[Derpy_Lily]

New background is a winner

 

[noa]

Much better background.

 

[MellowYellow]

I hate everything #runsAwayInJapanse

 

[MellowYellow]

The new colour on tags also looks great. No more unicorn puke everywhere

 

[PHalanKS]

Just enable all the colours and let us select our favourite (blue).

 

[ian_stagib]

Added a single colour option as vote

 

[AceSwiftShooter]

background is ubercool! blends in so well. Goes epically with Purple!

 

[wisecrack]

The red and black theme looks quite nice

 

[Ageless_ZA]

Added a single colour option as vote

Addendum to this. Updated to include single colours per vote.

 

[Rivesh]

Currently liking this color scheme.

 

[willem119]

Like the new background...voted for the Blue by day and Purple by night option. The green looks awesome as well.

 

[Sp1dr]

Really in favor of the colour by day and night functionality. It will help me know when it's time to leave work.

 

[RexTrueform]

As much as I like the green with this background it seems to remind me of Nvidia too much.

 

[∀Z‾soʇɐuɐɥ┴]

As much as I like the green with this background it seems to remind me of Nvidia too much.

So make it red and support AMD

 

[IOmegaRED]

nothing stops them doing a 6 hour cycle blue > red > purple > green

or even allowing people to choose what theme when,

 

[iamgigglz]

nothing stops them doing a 6 hour cycle blue > red > purple > green

RGB fans
RGB AIOs
RGB ram
RGB peripherals
RGB motherboards
RGB cases...
ok I see how RGB Carbonite makes sense.

 

[∀Z‾soʇɐuɐɥ┴]

RGB fans
RGB AIOs
RGB ram
RGB peripherals
RGB motherboards
RGB cases...
ok I see how RGB Carbonite makes sense.

Gotta get that extra fps out of the webpage you know.

 

[Off-The-Chart]

Asks for feedback
Gets feedback
Doesn't like feedback

Why even ask.

wait, shouldn't that be:
Asks for change
Gets change
Moan about change

Why ask for change

 

[SynicalFox]

Lovely background.

Maybe could there be a option for the ability to change between light and dark theme as well.

Not sure if some may still want the option for a light theme (white background with black text).

Will VIP be able to customise the themes possibly?

Then you could have more than 1 then for non VIP and Customisable and VIP exclusive themes for VIP?

Then if someone doesn't like one of the non VIP themes they can try another (eg light vs dark and blue vs purple)

 

[DeityRaid]

Red. Close thread

 

[SauRoN]

Anything without a black background and white text on top.

Or even just an inverted option for the current colours.

 

[SCHUMI4EVER]

Green all the way, it's the least loud somehow. Red thereafter. The other colours bug me/my eyes more for some reason.

 

[daelm]

personally i don't see the issue as one of colour scheme - it's a usability/readability/legibility problem that's created by things like:

- the bolded sans serif font that's harder to read than a smaller (unbolded) serif font,

- the choice of light grey (font) on dark grey (site background),

- the multiple clashing colours and icons that range across user identifiers, post categories, and user statuses (like resellers and so on) without a coherent and systematic classification schema that makes scanning and selecting content massively more difficult,

- unclear differences in font size between things like the navigation bar, the thread headers, the recent posts window and so on.

there are a lot of other potential problems, and they basically highlight the need for a simpler UI information architecture. the colour usage plays a part in either helping or hindering our ability to easily identify and access the things we're interested in, and colours that help group parts of the site or common functions are a good idea. but the fundamental breakage is structural in the way the site now presents information, at least to me.

unrelated, but trying to type this post was really difficult - not sure what the problem is, but the text field jumps around and resizes, and the text field response to keystrokes is really slow. not having the same problem anywhere else.

hope it helps.

regards


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[daelm]

Yes, "It's too loud, it's not simple like it was", which makes it difficult to use and read. Considering a forum is based entirely around the posts it holds, making it difficult to find, read, enjoy and respond to those posts is a problem.

i'm with Scott on this and he might have framed it even more clearly than i thought i did.


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[IOmegaRED]

i'm with Scott on this and he might have framed it even more clearly than i thought i did.


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softer colors

you cannot soften RED.. you just end up with pink, but the others can be toned