Postmortem Blinded by the Light

Mobile: Long-pressing to access the comment sticker selection just automatically likes the comment instead of bringing up the selection pane with all of the ratings.
 
I feel like "update on production" should be banned.
Honestly @Null, would it hurt to make an "alpha" test version (like alpha.kiwifarms.st for example) of the forum for all the autists here to chime in and make the update as seamless as possible? You have enough fanbase to make the testing phase incredibly fruitful with no additional cost, other than time.
Still, shine on you crazy diamond.
 
Purple Man said:
I feel like "update on production" should be banned.
Honestly @Null, would it hurt to make an "alpha" test version (like alpha.kiwifarms.st for example) of the forum for all the autists here to chime in and make the update as seamless as possible? You have enough fanbase to make the testing phase incredibly fruitful with no additional cost, other than time.
Still, shine on you crazy diamond.
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Alternatively, couldn't a dummy HTML test file (or files to test other aspects linked) just be distributed as well?
 
Thanks for the flashbang, Null.

Also I can't see half of the buttons anymore, at least on the dark theme. I'm not going to try checking the light theme, I value my eyes. And no, I'm not going to check the 7 other pages to see if this has already been reported.
 
Null said:
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.
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Could light mode be a little grayer/darker on the background?
 
From my experience, I encounter the "An unexpected error occurred. Please try again later." page on every log in attempt, except for when I toggle the device to responsive in the developer tools of my browser and log in using the log in form below the interior boards.
 
Purple Man said:
I feel like "update on production" should be banned.
Honestly @Null, would it hurt to make an "alpha" test version (like alpha.kiwifarms.st for example) of the forum for all the autists here to chime in and make the update as seamless as possible? You have enough fanbase to make the testing phase incredibly fruitful with no additional cost, other than time.
Still, shine on you crazy diamond.
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Then one-man-band Null would have to keep 2 sites running.

Real men always push to production 1st. That way they only have to fix what gets reported.
 
Seventh Star said:
The report, like, quote, and reply buttons are white instead of green, so if I can't use them I wouldn't be able to tell because... they'd turn white. Which they already are.
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If you hover over them you can see if they show up as clickable or not, they'll get a little underline under them, if you can't use them they'll just show as plain text instead.
 
Purple Man said:
I feel like "update on production" should be banned.
Honestly @Null, would it hurt to make an "alpha" test version (like alpha.kiwifarms.st for example) of the forum for all the autists here to chime in and make the update as seamless as possible? You have enough fanbase to make the testing phase incredibly fruitful with no additional cost, other than time.
Still, shine on you crazy diamond.
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I literally do not have the disk space on the database to duplicate on main or copy to my desktop the kiwi farms database. I did as much testing as I could with the files, but themes are database records. Upgrading the server is the first goal I have if I can get income for the forum again.
 
Absolutely and utterly petty, but I'm not a fan of this piece of the layout:
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I think it would look better either as a single line or with the stickers above. The Report, like quote and reply buttons could use not being the same color as the rest of the post text.
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Floating black line on the lower end is also ugly, but not unbearably so.

You might already be working on those anyway, if so ignore.
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Null said:
I literally do not have the disk space on the database to duplicate on main or copy to my desktop the kiwi farms database. I did as much testing as I could with the files, but themes are database records. Upgrading the server is the first goal I have if I can get income for the forum again.
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What if it were a tiny beta test forum with maybe a small board? a single thread? or would that be a waste of time.
 
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I like some things about the new dark theme. Feels way more consistent. There are a few issues I did notice, though, and I'll list them because I'm autistic as fuck
  • The "Attach files" button is colored the same as the background and looks really weird with the border. It would probably be fine if the border was removed and the color kept the same, or just changing the color.
  • The "Post Reply" and "Post Comment" buttons are also colored oddly. The "OK" button in the text color picker, "Insert" button in the Insert Link tab, and "Continue" button in the Spoiler tab and Insert Media tab also have the same issue.
  • Links in boards are colored green, even if the board's theme is different.
  • Q&A and A&N icons are broken.
I probably missed some things. I'll update it if I feel like it.
EDIT: Oh yeah, the Save button when editing a message also has the same issues as Post Reply/Post Comment, and the Report, Edit and Delete icons also have missing icons and are colored incorrectly on forums, but not profile posts.
 
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