A fresh lick of paint for the forum

[freddiewrites (Freddie Harrison)]

This is a little meta, but for the regulars around here, you may have noticed the forum’s theme got an update during the last week.

The reality under-the-hood was that this was a significant, from-the-ground-up rewrite by our very own @Keir — improving the colors and styling (they’re a bit brighter and more in line with our most recent web app UI update) and fixing a lot of hacky CSS.

It’s a huge effort that you’re hopefully all benefitting from in ways that may not even be obvious, so I didn’t want it to go unnoticed.

Great job @Keir!

[Keir (Keir Ansell)]

ahh thanks Freddie!

There’s a few small things on my list to fix but if anyone spots anything else misbehaving or that doesn’t look quite right then do drop me a note!

[Xhaust (Christian Meyer)]

i like the changes. i would love to have a dark mode

[freddiewrites (Freddie Harrison)]

With @Keir’s rewrite — we’re a lot closer to that than we were before! When we could do it largely depends on bugs we need to fix with the light theme and time among other projects. So…what this space, but at the same time, no promises

[leohans (Leonardo Hancevich (Leo Hans))]

@Keir
There is a glitch at the bottom for some cases where “Solution” is present.
Speaking of the overall look & feel, nice work, btw!

[rodionovd (Dmitry Rodionov)]

Thanks for the polish, @Keir, the forum looks greater than ever

Here’s a few minor nitpicks for the mobile version (Safari, iOS 18):

1. The post actions container looks like it could use some left padding (might be relevant to the issue @leohans has reported above):
   

   

2. The font size for list items in posts differs from the rest of the text:
   

   

[Keir (Keir Ansell)]

@leohans @rodionovd ahh thank you for pointing these out!

It’s a bit of an ongoing battle but I feel that I’m winning overall but I’ll certainly get these bits resolved!

Any other issues you come across, do feel free to post