Jim Posted January 28 Author Posted January 28 The good news is.....we can make a poll for that :D Quote
aFrInaTi0n Posted January 28 Posted January 28 @SpacePolice89ah dang, where is the like button so I can easily agree on your posting?! Quote
Jim Posted January 28 Author Posted January 28 16 minutes ago, aFrInaTi0n said: @SpacePolice89ah dang, where is the like button so I can easily agree on your posting?! Lol We can save ourselves the trouble and simply NOT implement it. Making a poll is probably not a bad idea. The majority rules :D Quote
Aleh Posted January 28 Posted January 28 Simply we can avoid messages like "Thank you", "Agree", "me too" Quote
aFrInaTi0n Posted January 28 Posted January 28 Yeah, to be honest as I am a still very junior member by joining, I think Eurobricks is an adult community and also the community may have its own preferences which are silently agreed up on just the usage of the platform - I guess young people may be pity with us... But shall they have their fun at TikTok, Instagram and whatnot *giggle - finally starting to feel old :D Quote
Toastie Posted January 28 Posted January 28 34 minutes ago, aFrInaTi0n said: finally starting to feel old :D Welcome to the club - well as a certified late Boomer I say: I agree with your assessment! Here is to feeling old! Best, Thorsten Quote
Berthil Posted January 28 Posted January 28 (edited) 2 hours ago, aFrInaTi0n said: I guess young people may be pity with us... But shall they have their fun at TikTok, Instagram and whatnot *giggle - finally starting to feel old :D It's not you that should feel old, it's the giggling young folks spending (too much) time at whatnot that should feel stupid, or at least are not getting smarter by looking at influencer bullsh*t. On 1/21/2025 at 5:10 PM, 2GodBDGlory said: I use Dark Reader I've installed it and works well, thanks for the tip. EB Dark Mode works better with it, no white flash when loading pages and I don't have to set EB to Dark Mode every new day. Edited January 28 by Berthil typos Quote
aFrInaTi0n Posted January 28 Posted January 28 @Berthil live and let live is the thing I am saying to myself as I feel getting into the period of life where one has "more than enough" expectations. And as those are emotionally bound to the self there may be a strong bias for those whenever we are approached with new possibilities. At least this helps me personally to let go and not concern myself any further.. not always working though.. xD *still learning 23 minutes ago, Berthil said: EB Dark Mode works better with it, no white flash when loading pages and I don't have to set EB to Dark Mode every new day. Oh interesting, is the cookie not working, as you mention '"you need to set it every day again"? if so I may have screwed up in another code place.. :o "working with experts once" Quote
Berthil Posted January 28 Posted January 28 @aFrInaTi0n before Dark Reader I had to set it every morning to dark mode, so it seems there is some cookie that expires in 24h, or it is not part of the set of functional cookies as I generally decline all cookies that are not required. Quote
2GodBDGlory Posted January 28 Posted January 28 4 hours ago, SpacePolice89 said: Please, don't add a like button. Then it will be too much like social media. It is much better to reply and say why you agree or disagree with a post. I would tend to agree. Often I see nice models, and I want to reward the builder for making a nice presentation of it for us, so I make a comment! If there were a like button, I think it would be too easy to just click on that and move on, instead of thinking about the model and coming up with something at least slightly meaningful to say. It's that discussion that a forum is made for, though, and honestly what builders want to see, so I'd be skeptical of something that could tend to discourage it. Quote
Good old Lego builder Posted January 29 Posted January 29 I can’t go to the last post anymore. Is that new? Quote
aFrInaTi0n Posted January 29 Posted January 29 @Good old Lego builder yes unfortunately the vendor of the forum seem to have removed that. Quote
2ndgen Posted February 4 Posted February 4 On 1/22/2025 at 4:35 AM, howitzer said: Wow, there's a dark mode! I didn't even notice before you pointed it out, this is great! Other than that, I guess it'll take a while to adjust to the new theme but there doesn't seem to be any serious problems with it for me at least. The forum appears to be much faster than before the update which is also good. There's a dark mode ? This I have to find. Quote
Ngoc Nguyen Posted February 4 Posted February 4 @aFrInaTi0n can you make the background of unrea dthreads darker? Quote
aFrInaTi0n Posted February 4 Posted February 4 @Ngoc Nguyen In theory yes - but it is intented for helping the eyes to identify unread threads vs already read ones - so don't get me wrong, but this would exactly counter your previous comlaints of unread threads not being distinquishable enough. Possibly I understood wrong, are you speaking just about a very slight shift of the color or a huger one making it much darker? 4 hours ago, 2ndgen said: This I have to find. clicking the moon icon in the Navigation bar, top right Quote
Aurorasaurus Posted February 4 Posted February 4 4 hours ago, Ngoc Nguyen said: @aFrInaTi0n can you make the background of unrea dthreads darker? If you prefer dark mode, just use dark reader. For me, the unread threads are a little easier to identify with it. Up from (IMO) easy to identify to completely clear. The other thing could be to retrain yourself to look at the gear icon, I find that very helpful. Quote
Ngoc Nguyen Posted February 4 Posted February 4 5 hours ago, aFrInaTi0n said: Possibly I understood wrong, are you speaking just about a very slight shift of the color or a huger one making it much darker? I mean just slightly darker, because on my phone screen it's still rather close to the white background of unread threads. On another note, I discovered a funny bug. For the pinned threads, when I hover my mouse over the "PINNED" label, the backgrounds of those threads change to either white or that of unread threads. Quote
aFrInaTi0n Posted February 4 Posted February 4 3 hours ago, Ngoc Nguyen said: I mean just slightly darker, because on my phone screen it's still rather close to the white background of unread threads. White backgrounds? Just for clarification as I thought you were speaking of the dark theme - so sorry but now I am even more confused of which of the two you are speaking - sorry from my side! 3 hours ago, Ngoc Nguyen said: On another note, I discovered a funny bug. For the pinned threads, when I hover my mouse over the "PINNED" label, the backgrounds of those threads change to either white or that of unread threads. There is another magic one: In the forum main view, click the button to mark all read -> their icons will completely vanish until the next reload - I screwed the annotation up a little I reckon - but no critical harm... Quote
zoo Posted February 4 Posted February 4 (edited) On 1/22/2025 at 12:59 AM, aFrInaTi0n said: To get it correct: For mobile or desktop view & if the text too small or too big? Sorry for the late reply. Desktop view. I am using Edge browser. What I mean is that if text and other features on the site grow further apart, while size of text and features remain unchanged, I believe it affects readability in a negative way. The only thing it does is to force additional eye movement of the viewer in order to register the same information. I think the hight of each row in the topics table could be decreased quite a bit. I am no developer but I believe it is an easy adjustment that would increase readability a lot. Edited February 4 by zoo Quote
aFrInaTi0n Posted February 4 Posted February 4 Just ramped up Edge in my Windows Host and logged in, created a video of me doing zooming functions of the browser (CTRL+ Mousewheel or +/- Keys). Two questions @zoo: Is the behavior replicating the behavior in your browser? If the 1st question can be answered with "yes": For me everything is looking fine from what I expect of the zooming function. What would be your expectation? Possibly I overlooked things, please dont hesitate to tell me "nahw you moron, you overlooked the issue which was in your view" to give a simplified example :D Working in the other browser threw me off track.. xD To add... For the last sentence you refer to those gaps, right? I personally agree on them being "a big larger then i would think it is needed" - on the other hand for this righ now falls under "sorry to tell, but we are expectating the next big major version from the software in the next 1-2 Month to be released and this would render any work we would spend right now obsolete". After giving their release some little time to hang and observe if other communites can verify the product is stable enough we would like to test and possibly upgrade soon to the new version to create us a new foundation for long lasting new & fitting themes. Quote
zoo Posted February 4 Posted February 4 (edited) 1 hour ago, aFrInaTi0n said: Two questions @zoo: Is the behavior replicating the behavior in your browser? If the 1st question can be answered with "yes": For me everything is looking fine from what I expect of the zooming function. What would be your expectation? For the last sentence you refer to those gaps, right? I personally agree on them being "a big larger then i would think it is needed" - on the other hand for this righ now falls under "sorry to tell, but we are expectating the next big major version from the software in the next 1-2 Month to be released and this would render any work we would spend right now obsolete". Not sure what could differ regarding the zoom function. I tried it out and looks to behave the same for me as for you in the video. So I guess it's working as intended? I didn't take different screen resolutions into account before, but I realize that it affects the way the forums are displayed. Though again, it looks like some amount of gaps and "textless" areas, for lack of a better word, could be reduced no matter the screen resolution the site is viewed in. If that makes sense? :) Yes, those gaps in the picture is what I am refering to. I understand that it might take quite a bit of tinkering plus trial and error to get things close to 100% and that there might be more updates and features you want to add at a later stage that unintentinally could affect other parts of the site. But it sounds like you recognize the problem I was trying to describe, so all good then. :) I also have some concerns with the lack of contrast between borders/frames and posts in the forum threads, as well as background colour of read and unread thread titles in the topics table. The very subtle blue hue is too close to white in my opinion. But I have also noticed that this is less of a problem for me on my work computer, so it might in part just be a screen deficiency rather than a Eurobricks deficiency. :) Edited February 4 by zoo Quote
aFrInaTi0n Posted February 4 Posted February 4 Ok, then I am happy I lately underestood correctly :D For the themes not being 100% clean, not allowing for very well contrast everywhere in detail and the eyes easily identifying differences (read/unread for e.g.) and other things like possibly missing / not well visible border, I also agree. Unfortunately this still goes into the same category of "Main consideration from our side was having a fresh & secure server operation system beneath & have the product updated to the latest stable released version of the vendor to increase security of the platform and also allow us to keep your user-data safe. Missing themes were considered not the main priority" so -> makes only sense to wait for the next big major release to work on the good foundation of a well defined theme afterwards. So also for the huge free spaces I got another feedback of "meh, on a mobile device I basically can just read the top 2-3 topics without scrolling" and I also agree on their current designs not being very content friendly on mobile devices. Quote
2ndgen Posted February 7 Posted February 7 On 2/4/2025 at 12:49 AM, aFrInaTi0n said: @Ngoc Nguyen In theory yes - but it is intented for helping the eyes to identify unread threads vs already read ones - so don't get me wrong, but this would exactly counter your previous comlaints of unread threads not being distinquishable enough. Possibly I understood wrong, are you speaking just about a very slight shift of the color or a huger one making it much darker? clicking the moon icon in the Navigation bar, top right Oh wow this is great thanks. Quote
Ngoc Nguyen Posted February 8 Posted February 8 On 2/4/2025 at 11:53 PM, aFrInaTi0n said: White backgrounds? Just for clarification as I thought you were speaking of the dark theme - so sorry but now I am even more confused of which of the two you are speaking - sorry from my side! I'm talking about the background of read and unread threads in the day light theme. I don't use dark theme. Back to the topic, what I meant was that at the moment the background of read threads is white, and the background of unread threads is a shade of dark gray, which look different enough on my laptop, but still kinda close to the white of the read threads on my smartphone. Quote
aFrInaTi0n Posted February 8 Posted February 8 @Ngoc Nguyen we can Stop here - I wont do any more theme work for the current v4 as v5 was released by the vendor beginning of the week. Quote
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