Postmortem Blinded by the Light

Mobile Brave browser dark mode actually slaps now, thanks Null. Leave well enough alone.
 
Ngl this is day has been funny as shit.

New Theme ideas
  • State of Israel theme for stealthing in America
  • Islamic Halal theme for stealthing in European countries
  • Web 1.0 style, there's a cool Linux one floating around where everything looks retro. It will encourage users to remember the good times and give you new payment processors.
Reinstated themes
  • CCP theme
  • Halloween theme
 
Five-Minute Rule Edit: On light stealth you can't see the CDS logo:
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Yeah. the hyperlinks on the bottom of the site are hard to see.
 
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I'm using the Tor Browser on Windows, with me trying both the onion and clearnet links.

I've noticed that while not logged in, some of the formatting looks incorrect, such as the featured section and on the bottom of posts (it's especially noticeable with the stickers).
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However, after I log in, those formatting issues are gone.
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I've also tried copying and pasting in the last two images, but for some reason it didn't work, although saving and uploading them as attachments worked, along with me noticing some of the other wonky formatting with the buttons that others have pointed out here.
It had been like this all day for me and up until this post I thought that it was intentional.
 
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the border needs to be darker imo or split off into separate boxes
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Make the background darker for the selected page or way brighter. Its way too close for my old man eyes as is. I'd prefer the selected page to be a lil more apparent. Be it darker or brighter. Probably way darker is best.
 
what the fuck did you do (mobile)
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the top navbar is center aligned but the page is wide as fuck now on mobile for some reason
I think it's because of the random.txt at the top. It seems to size the page based on the length of the random.txt. I had a short one and the page was normal sized. I refreshed and got a long random.txt and the page stretched out to fit it.
 
I have conducted routine maintenance. It went pretty well, all things considered, until I accidentally deleted the Dark Theme. So now I have to redo the themes. A good excuse as any to freshen things up a bit, it's been like 4 years since the last time i updated the theme.

If anything is BROKEN (as in, does not work) please let me know. If things are so ugly it's literally unusuable, also let me know. If things are just ugly -- trust me, I know.

P.S. You now see DMs in people's profiles. These DMs are DMs you can see. This is not leaking to the public.

P.P.S. XenForo stores themes in the database without version control. It is not possible to Git themes. It is not possible to restore them. Only a database rollback was an option and I'd rather just fix it.



Please DO NOT make a post about an issue until it exists for 5 minutes.

Thank you for all that you do for the site!

I know doing something like this is probably taxing, but thank you for making the effort.
I actually really like the blue&gray theme and how it looks now. I used that Purple and dark theme a lot, and while I liked it, I have always wished for a black and gray/silver/white theme like the dark theme but with gray instead of a color. I am a monochrome-enjoyer.

Edit: Made a quick mock-up of what I mean. Would something like this be feasible? Darkening the background gray of the site to a charcoal gray/black and make the lettering white and gray?
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Make the background darker for the selected page or way brighter. Its way too close for my old man eyes as is. I'd prefer the selected page to be a lil more apparent. Be it darker or brighter. Probably way darker is best.
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The KF logo changes sizes/disappears depending on how long the random.txt message is on mobile. Pls fix nool
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@Null Could the next halloween theme have purple and orange instead of just orange?
Also, while we have dumb and dislike stickers, what about retard and fatass stickers?
Edit "AND BR*TISH STICKERS FOR SUPERBLY RETARDED TAKES!
 
If we can ask for features as well as themes, can we get an toggle or checkbox to always open chat when we go to a board? When you made the change where people are no longer automatically thrown into the chats, it kinda killed the board specific chats, this would allow people who want to be in there be there, while people who don't don't have to.
 
This one is tiny, priority wise for user end experience but is important for site donations.

The donation links (various crypto wallets) are no longer at the bottom of the page on Brave browser, mobile atm, currently using dark mode purple.

Will check out if they show up on TOR later, once home.

I like how the new dialogue/ reply to post, boxes look. There’s a darker background in the space to type a post & it really pops. The highlights feature looks great now too, with a fully colored box. I’ve checked out the OG Kiwi Green & Purple themes both so far & like what I see.
 
I use the chameleon user agent switcher extension, and with user agents for tablet devices and android firefox, the top of the site draws fine. It's broken for all other mobile user agents

(edit) nope, I'm wrong. It'll happen randomly on refreshing. Must be based on the random.txt length

also, sometimes when opening a notification link in a new tab, the relevant message isn't automatically scrolled to
 
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