UEMB Skins/Themes

[Raptorpat]

OK EVERYONE

@viperxmns is working on skins because I am terrible and he is a (f)artist. He has a draft for the default skin and wants people to prove input so he can refine it to the extent capable. After that, maybe tuning up the ASMB theme is on the list too, maybe even additional themeses if he enjoys it who knows?!

If willing to humor us, scroll to the themes tab at the bottom of the page and click on the new UEMB copy test and poke around, let him know what you think etc. Goal is a dark-themed site that is easy on the eyes but also looks good and easily identifiable.

mucho gracias to anyone willing to help out. (that means "much gracias" in spanish)

[Raptorpat]

Also direct and theme-related visual problems here instead of the Town Hall thread.

[viperxmns]

I am a noob at editing these sorts of things so bear w me, changes to the theme are subtle, wanted to avoid eyebleed so nothing too crazy. Def open to the people's thoughts on wat colors they might like to see used as a theme

Edited November 2, 2023 by viperxmns

[rpgamer]

I've been on the ASMB Vibes 2.0 theme, switching over to make notes.

Personally, more a fan of the lighter grey for post backgrounds, a la ASMB. The black-on-almost-black is a bit much.

On the other hand, the ASMB theme has the awful greenish yellow color for things like the top banner, new reply circles, etc. Literally anything is better than that.

Blue thread title font is ok, think it's same/similar on all themes? But the green-on-hover is kinda clashy.

Square vs circle avatars, not a huge difference, personal opinion and all. There's probably some design philosophy that says circles are more aesthetically pleasing or something. I'd probably lean more towards squares.

[Doom Metal Alchemist]

16 minutes ago, rpgamer said:

I've been on the ASMB Vibes 2.0 theme, switching over to make notes.

Personally, more a fan of the lighter grey for post backgrounds, a la ASMB. The black-on-almost-black is a bit much.

On the other hand, the ASMB theme has the awful greenish yellow color for things like the top banner, new reply circles, etc. Literally anything is better than that.

Blue thread title font is ok, think it's same/similar on all themes? But the green-on-hover is kinda clashy.

Square vs circle avatars, not a huge difference, personal opinion and all. There's probably some design philosophy that says circles are more aesthetically pleasing or something. I'd probably lean more towards squares.

Circle avatars started because the intentions were for the avatars were to be the users' faces, nothing more, nothing less.

But we don't like that shit here and most of the Internet other than the really huge social media sites don't foster selfie avatars.

[discolé monade]

new uemb copy test is nice. 

is there a difference btwn the old and new version? i can't tell. 

not a fan of the default and test. 

 

 

[The_annoying_one]

I think Copy Test looks great, but I also really like ASMB Vibes 2.0. I honestly don’t know how to pick between the two.

[viperxmns]

1 hour ago, rpgamer said:

I've been on the ASMB Vibes 2.0 theme, switching over to make notes.

Personally, more a fan of the lighter grey for post backgrounds, a la ASMB. The black-on-almost-black is a bit much.

On the other hand, the ASMB theme has the awful greenish yellow color for things like the top banner, new reply circles, etc. Literally anything is better than that.

Blue thread title font is ok, think it's same/similar on all themes? But the green-on-hover is kinda clashy.

Square vs circle avatars, not a huge difference, personal opinion and all. There's probably some design philosophy that says circles are more aesthetically pleasing or something. I'd probably lean more towards squares.

updated based on this feedback, see what yall think, can adjust ofc

Edited November 2, 2023 by viperxmns

[rpgamer]

Hm, yeah, I'd stick with it. I don't really interact with a great deal more of the site, so not much else to give input on.

[Raptorpat]

ISP4 Dark is the pre-update skin, if there's anything there that looks better color-wise. Some of that is manually coded though, like the alternating light/dark.

[Raptorpat]

hey @[classic swim] do you have any input on tweaking the asmb theme? you are our resident asmb theme expert

[[classic swim]]

1 hour ago, Raptorpat said:

hey @[classic swim] do you have any input on tweaking the asmb theme? you are our resident asmb theme expert

Honored to have the title.

Just what I mentioned before with the lining of the quote boxes and whatnot. I’m not that critical of it otherwise as my main thing was already resolved within quick time.

[Otakuninja9000]

Why not some kind of black/red/white/gray emo theme?

Edited November 6, 2023 by Otakuninja9000

[Raptorpat]

1 hour ago, Otakuninja9000 said:

Why not some kind of black/red/white/gray emo theme?

Once we lock in these two "main" themes, we can make more themes to the extent that viperxmns enjoys doing it.

[UwPp]

I still hate the spaceships 

[UwPp]

Sooo for the ASMB 2.0

This color scheme needs to change. 
The green is so bright my retinas burn.

Need to make UEMB stand out a little bit more. And the grey on grey when replying isn’t very aesthetically pleasing. 

[Raptorpat]

I changed the editor to the one other available without having to involve KN to download/install/build anything.

[rpgamer]

1 hour ago, UnDeRwOrlDpRiNcEsS said:

Sooo for the ASMB 2.0

This color scheme needs to change. 
The green is so bright my retinas burn.

Need to make UEMB stand out a little bit more. And the grey on grey when replying isn’t very aesthetically pleasing.

These are probably largely fixed in the "New UEMB Copy Test" theme, which seems to be the one made for making changes to nail things down without constantly changing things for users still on one of the older themes.

Pretty sure the spaceships aren't so much a theme thing as a site thing, requiring digging into actual site code, if they can  be removed at all.. (much like how I hate the sidebar creating a ton of empty space in large threads..)

[viperxmns]

can vouch, the spaceships aren't something I have any control over seemingly

[André Toulon]

The only thing I can ascertain about the rockers is it's rankable but nothing changes. 

Like in my profile it says I have 22/22 achievements but I'm still monster mutant.

[Otakuninja9000]

On 11/6/2023 at 3:05 PM, Raptorpat said:

Once we lock in these two "main" themes, we can make more themes to the extent that viperxmns enjoys doing it.

Really? Or are you guys really saying you can't make more themes?

[Raptorpat]

We can make more themes. The immediate job is to tweak up the two main ones, and then it's just a function of time/energy to whip more up beyond that.

[molarbear]

On 11/2/2023 at 2:53 PM, Raptorpat said:

OK EVERYONE

@viperxmns is working on skins because I am terrible and he is a (f)artist. He has a draft for the default skin and wants people to prove input so he can refine it to the extent capable. After that, maybe tuning up the ASMB theme is on the list too, maybe even additional themeses if he enjoys it who knows?!

If willing to humor us, scroll to the themes tab at the bottom of the page and click on the new UEMB copy test and poke around, let him know what you think etc. Goal is a dark-themed site that is easy on the eyes but also looks good and easily identifiable.

mucho gracias to anyone willing to help out. (that means "much gracias" in spanish)

Ranked Choice voting format

1.New UEMB copy test

2.ASMB Vibes

3. New UEMB (Default)

4.ASMB Vibes 2 (It was awesome at first)

-10000000000000000000000000000000000000000 Default and test

-Denada Pat

fixed it

Edited November 9, 2023 by molarbear

[Raptorpat]

I switched viperxmns' version to the default

now people will be forced to engage mwahaha

[Raptorpat]

did that change people's theme or do i have to manually reset it

[The_annoying_one]

I haven’t noticed anything different on my end.

[André Toulon]

21 minutes ago, The_annoying_one said:

I haven’t noticed anything different on my end.

Me neither...but I just got here

[Raptorpat]

ok now

[The_annoying_one]

Affirmative.

[Raptorpat]

ok so direct all complaints to viperxmns, he's our artistic visionary

[The_annoying_one]

I actually kinda dig this one.

[Raptorpat]

direct all compliments to him too

[The_annoying_one]

I’m sure he’ll see this whenever he comes online.

[André Toulon]

Yes, I see it and I'm depressed now.

[Raptorpat]

you can select the other one again from the themes, I think it's "new uemb old"

[Top Gun]

Not really a fan of the more washed-out blue-gray on this one for unread post icons. They don't draw attention as much as they should.

[viperxmns]

12 hours ago, Top Gun said:

Not really a fan of the more washed-out blue-gray on this one for unread post icons. They don't draw attention as much as they should.

brightened it up a bit, more similar to the text color now

[Insipid]

I tried messing around with them, and when I thought default would take me back to default . . . my eyes.

 

[Raptorpat]

Yeah that's the actual Invision default, some of the difficulty is that some things can't be easily inverted when you make a dark mode and require manual coding.

The skin we had on the previous version was a preset customized dark mode option that I manually tweaked. But it worked because there were already things that were manually coded to work.

[Still Me]

Tldr

tile this mother fucker I say 

[Juice McKenzie]

Being able to change the theme is a cool option. I went with asmb 2.0

[rpgamer]

I only just noticed that the thread preview (when you hover over a thread title) has a weird very faint mis-aligned bubble around it. Has that always been a thing?

 

Oh wait, it's actually two bubbles. There's the thread preview box, then right around the edges is a rounded border that's just a few shades darker than background, and around that is another larger rounded border that's closer to the background grey bit still just slightly off.

[Raptorpat]

sorry @rpgamer I totally missed this, but I am not sure what in the image you're pointing out

[rpgamer]

S'ok. Nothing truly concerning, more a curiosity. There's just the faintest of gradients around the thread preview box. I can't even really show it off any better, it's so faint. But if you look close careful at the right side of that image, especially around the corners, you can see some rounded off not-as-blackness just outside the preview box (almost touches the corners, and just a bit outside that is another rounded region of slightly-not-as-dark.

Maybe probably a desktop-only thing? I have no idea how/if thread previews work on mobile.

[Raptorpat]

I'm looking from my PC and I can definitely see it now. I thought there was a smudge on my screen but you're right. Weird.

[rpgamer]

Oh hey, it looks like it also happens to the little pop-up when someone replies to a thread while you're reading it? That's just multiple concentric rings around the pop-up.. almost makes me want to hunt down some other boards that use whatever we're on and see if they have similar things happen..