Forum Theme

[ucjohn]

Seeing what type of theme you would like to see the forums. I know some people saying they like the default Invision Theme or this white one, but I want to hear the community opinion and poll.

Dark/Grey

Light/Blue

I want this to be something the community will enjoy for a long period of time, lets make this the best TCAdmin Forums possible!

[Dennis]

The default theme is the best of the two currently available. There are too many design flaws with the 'TCadmin_2020' theme.

The obvious answer for this poll is both - there's really no reason to just go with one if it's possible to get both

[DeteCT0R]

There is a "default" dark theme.

https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/9377-dark-theme/

https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/9383-night-mode-theme/

 

Both free. The white is burning my eyes. 

Nowdays everyone using dark theme   

Edited March 1, 2020 by DeteCT0R

[ucjohn]

4 hours ago, DennisMidjord said:

The default theme is the best of the two currently available. There are two many design flaws with the 'TCadmin_2020' theme.

The obvious answer for this poll is both - there's really no reason to just go with one if it's possible to get both

How is there many design flaws? As it's a professional paid for theme that I made edits to in order to follow tcadmin colors.

[ucjohn]

46 minutes ago, DeteCT0R said:

There is a "default" dark theme.

https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/9377-dark-theme/

https://invisioncommunity.com/files/file/9383-night-mode-theme/

 

Both free. The white is burning my eyes. 

Nowdays everyone using dark theme   

I'm gonna put the night mode on active, a toggle switch will appear in top corner. 

[Dennis]

1 minute ago, ucjohn said:

How is there many design flaws?

1. The color pattern couldn't possibly get any worse. Without navigating away from this page, I see 3 different shades of green and  4 shades of blue.
2. Adding to that, some text are hard to read. Either dark text on dark background or light text on a light background.
3. The author pane color doesn't match anything on the website
4. Text in the menu shouldn't be green - would look best as white
5. Overuse of box-shadow

Mostly, it all comes down to colors - they're really poor and makes the theme look bad. Having different colors for everything is just a very bad idea for design.

It also seems like the default theme has seen some changes, unfortunately. It looked better when it was 100% default.

[ucjohn]

2 minutes ago, DennisMidjord said:

1. The color pattern couldn't possibly get any worse. Without navigating away from this page, I see 3 different shades of green and  4 shades of blue.
2. Adding to that, some text are hard to read. Either dark text on dark background or light text on a light background.
3. The author pane color doesn't match anything on the website
4. Text in the menu shouldn't be green - would look best as white
5. Overuse of box-shadow

Mostly, it all comes down to colors - they're really poor and makes the theme look bad. Having different colors for everything is just a very bad idea for design.

It also seems like the default theme has seen some changes, unfortunately. It looked better when it was 100% default.

I'm working on a custom theme, so I appreciate the feedback, I've changed some settings to reduce the color palette as the theme TCADMIN 2020 isn't my theme it's a paid theme I'm constantly trying to adjust it.  I've enabled the dark mode which doesn't have any changes made to it refresh top corner you'll see a moon that'll toggle it. 

[ucjohn]

I've revised the theme now.

Removed the shadow boxes

Put a 1px border and removed some of the rounding.

Fixed the blue to match across the entire theme.

Fixed the footer colors.

Fixed Poll colors.

Adjusted a few other elements to make it a better viewing experience.

Only for Day Version of theme.

[Adam]

Changes to the dark theme for the header i think this looks better https://gyazo.com/e4fcbfb500a65bc6209b5ef911170156

[ucjohn]

Unfortunately I'd have to recode the entire header so that the dark logo is used in dark mode. It's not a huge deal the current way, until I get time to recode it. 

[Dennis]

@ucjohnit only requires very little CSS.

.ipsaXenTheme_Dark #ipsLayout_header > header {
  background: #0c0c0c !important;
}

 

[Bubka3]

Looks like the default theme has been disabled. How disappointing.

[Adam]

Unfortunately I'd have to recode the entire header so that the dark logo is used in dark mode. It's not a huge deal the current way, until I get time to recode it. 

Cant you just inject CSS?

Ill give you all the lines i changed so you can copy paste?

Sent from my SNE-LX1 using Tapatalk

[ucjohn]

10 minutes ago, Bubka3 said:

Looks like the default theme has been disabled. How disappointing.

I have cleaned up the theme alot and I can enable default theme. I'm curious for input, what makes the default theme better than the TCADMIN theme? 

As they both are equivalent and both clean looking. 

[Dennis]

In my opinion, the default theme is just more clean. The only thing the two themes share is that they're both light themes - but the default is just so pleasing to the eyes

[Bubka3]

They are not equivalent....

[ucjohn]

13 minutes ago, Bubka3 said:

They are not equivalent....

Anyways refresh its been turned back on.