OT: HBoards Migration to Xenforo Software

[Lapa]

A user made a dark theme via Chrome extension here:

http://hfboards.mandatory.com/posts/136137781/

 

[W75]

Still Alive, I survived!

 

[HollaHaula]

A user made a dark theme via Chrome extension here:

http://hfboards.mandatory.com/posts/136137781/

Oh this is wonderful!

 

[Lapa]

Oh this is wonderful!

I tried, I prefer the white theme overall but it looks pretty good too.

 

[Vashanesh]

The option is listed in the Preferences section to change the theme, but there is no other theme yet. I would guess that at some point we will receive more options.

Ah, so the option exists, at least... That's promising.

Didn't notice the link above. That is exactly what I was hoping for.

 

[Lapa]

It made the site pretty slow on Firefox, but I guess it's meant for Chrome or something.

 

[gphr513]

Ohh, I just discovered a new feature I really like. When you highlight a sentence or paragraph in a post, it comes up with a little option where you can click "Reply", and it will quote that person with just what you've highlighted.

 

[Lapa]

@gphr513 Didn't even notice that function yet. Pretty cool.

 

[melinko]

Overall I like the change but I hope they consider styling individual forum posts differently.
It is difficult to tell at a glance when one post ends and a new one begins.

Alternate the posts light-grey and white at least.

 

[Puhis]

Aaaaaaaaah, change!

I don't like change.

But... it's not too bad. I would prefer a dark option to go with Opera better, or at least darker than the current white. But, not too shabby otherwise.

Can we make the Wild section green?

 

[123TripleDoge]

is there a way to manually switch my browser into the mobile mode? I use a shrunken browser at work and it's tough to navigate now

 

[Wabit]

I'm not a fan of the new format. It's hard on my eyes, and I like a distinct break between posts. A different skin, or alternating colors of the posts would be nice from my PoV.

 

[Woodhouse]

No doubt! The whole page seems to force itself needlessly to the left, leaving a ton of open space on the right.

There's a toggle to hide the right sidebar next to those open quick navigation menu buttons.

 

[TaLoN]

There's a toggle to hide the right sidebar next to those open quick navigation menu buttons.

I see no such toggle...

 

[Wabit]

I see no such toggle...

It's small, it looks kind of like a flag: an arrow with 4 lines. It's on the grey bar with the Forum names, far right hand side for the desktop version of the forums. Hover over it and is says "Open quick navigation".

 

[TaLoN]

It's small, it looks kind of like a flag: an arrow with 4 lines. It's on the grey bar with the Forum names, far right hand side for the desktop version of the forums. Hover over it and is says "Open quick navigation".

That's the quick navigation menu. He said there is a toggle NEXT to it to hide the sidebar... I see no such toggle.

 

[Woodhouse]

I see no such toggle...

Ever since I clicked on it though, I haven't seen it return. It was to the far right of "breadBoxBottom". I suppose I could clear cookies and try again, but I like no sidebar even if they're only debugging it or something.

 

[TaLoN]

Since my post about the wasted space to the right side of the screen, they have since started utilizing that space for ads... so I doubt they have an option to eliminate that space.

Of course, my employer wants no adblocker software installed on our work pc's since they haven't vetted it, so I can't block said ads here.

 

[Minnesota]

A user made a dark theme via Chrome extension here:

http://hfboards.mandatory.com/posts/136137781/

100% better.

 

[Woodhouse]

Since my post about the wasted space to the right side of the screen, they have since started utilizing that space for ads... so I doubt they have an option to eliminate that space.

Of course, my employer wants no adblocker software installed on our work pc's since they haven't vetted it, so I can't block said ads here.

It may only be on the Home page, but it's there again even after cookies were cleared:

 

[TaLoN]

@Woodhouse - got it - yup, it only on the home page. I used it when I first opened these boards to get to the Wild boards and have never used the homepage since until now. Toggled it... I came back to the Wild boards and the sidebar space was back on the Wild board, but it still was effective in eliminating said space in the thread! Thank you VERY much!

EDIT: Correction, it was effective on the Wild board itself as well... it just takes a second during the page load for the sidebar space to vanish. I can deal with that extra second in load time to utilize the screen space better!

 

[gphr513]

A user made a dark theme via Chrome extension here:

http://hfboards.mandatory.com/posts/136137781/

The only thing I don't like about this is you can't really tell a thread with new posts vs. a thread you have read. Other than that, yeah it looks awesome.

 

[TaLoN]

For those with firefox, this can be used as well... and it's fricking awesome!

heres a preliminary theme

Install this Chrome Extension

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/...es-for/fjnbnpbmkenffdnngjfgmeleoegfcffe?hl=en

Then install theme from here

https://userstyles.org/styles/148793/bba-hfboards

let me know what you'd like to see changed. Very rough right now, still making some changes and some stuff isn't done yet

Here is the link to Stylish for Firefox users https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/stylish/?src=search

First install the Stylish addon for firefox, then go to the theme noted in the first quote.

@gphr513 - I think it's actually easier to see, as the little blue nub sticks out a lot more IMO.

It also makes the prefixes more noticable... but doesn't solve the problem of most of the prefixes looking similar to each other. There needs to be color differentiation added to the prefixes in general like on the old format.

 

[melinko]

Another thing that would be nice is if the thread page quick links that appear when you mouse over a topic were always visible. They make it easy to see what threads are popular very quickly.

 

[plock]

Ohh, I just discovered a new feature I really like. When you highlight a sentence or paragraph in a post, it comes up with a little option where you can click "Reply", and it will quote that person with just what you've highlighted.

That is super useful,thanks.