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Post by Cuz05 on Oct 28, 2014 20:59:29 GMT
Ah, Thun, yeah I can imagine. Was hoping it would be more SFW that that. What I can do (and so can you) is copy the light theme into a new one and change everything to B&W for true SFWness. I'll have a look at that in the very near future, if you don't get to it.
I've made a few basic changes to the boards already, so you can get a taste of what's to come. Nothing we actually use too much, so far. Actually a decent time to switch recruitment as we have none pending...
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Post by SPEEDSTER0595 on Oct 28, 2014 22:30:56 GMT
light theme default for work, black, burgundy for home. was never in favour of the single recruitment thread tbh. individual threads make it easier for new recruits,and my self, to check back in on pending FR, vouches and crew acceptance confirmation. but if you feel the single thread is fine, then go for it cuz  as for pics and video, maybe put them in the creation station? just a thought |
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Post by SPEEDSTER0595 on Oct 28, 2014 22:34:48 GMT
and how to join and pending requests should be merged, with the how to join thread pinned followed by requests
while who we are should be merged with the crew section with gentleman guidelines pinned
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Post by kidovey on Oct 28, 2014 22:35:30 GMT
In light of recent events I would like to formally withdraw the offer of my services. Thank you.
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Post by Cuz05 on Oct 28, 2014 23:33:39 GMT
In light of recent events I would like to formally withdraw the offer of my services. Thank you. I'm totally open to your input, any and all suggestions you can make would be great, I was hoping you'd be able to help out with the ugly background on the light theme, at the moment I'm leaning towards making it plain. Thing is, I'm just not too comfy with opening up admin privileges, no offence. This is in an open thread for good reason, it could've been admin or staff only but I want it to be a group effort with continued feedback. More or less on the same page as you there Speed, I'd held back from merging on that set of boards till we decided which approach to take. Was more a quick experiment to see how some of the other admin options worked. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2014 2:27:02 GMT
was never in favour of the single recruitment thread tbh. individual threads make it easier for new recruits,and my self, to check back in on pending FR, vouches and crew acceptance confirmation. 100% agree with this! I like being able to use the recruit thread as a post for each member's driver profile too. I like how we can all talk about this and work on this together too. So far I like the SFW as the best theme. It looks good but yet doesn't scream, "HEY LOOK OVER HERE AT ME!!!" when your work bosses are near. |
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Post by kidovey on Oct 29, 2014 2:35:01 GMT
In light of recent events I would like to formally withdraw the offer of my services. Thank you. I'm totally open to your input, any and all suggestions you can make would be great, I was hoping you'd be able to help out with the ugly background on the light theme, at the moment I'm leaning towards making it plain. Thing is, I'm just not too comfy with opening up admin privileges, no offence. This is in an open thread for good reason, it could've been admin or staff only but I want it to be a group effort with continued feedback. You've misunderstood, it's got nothing to do with that. I used to be an administrator for a real life car club and I'd never let anyone have access to the admin panel, even the guy who ran the club itself! As I said before I will make a collage as I originally set out and mentioned in the original thread. I think there's plenty of input within the longer standing and more regular users of this forum to come up with some ideas for you to freshen the site up if you so desire. If you need help down the line implementing those ideas into the coding of the site then we can deal with the best way to do that then. |
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Post by SPEEDSTER0595 on Oct 29, 2014 3:19:55 GMT
the how to join thread needs a makeover, aesthetics, not overhaul changes, a sprucing up in other words, not erasing or changing anything this is me requesting permission to make it more "appealing" so to speak |
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Post by Cuz05 on Oct 29, 2014 7:20:35 GMT
You've misunderstood, it's got nothing to do with that. I used to be an administrator for a real life car club and I'd never let anyone have access to the admin panel, even the guy who ran the club itself! As I said before I will make a collage as I originally set out and mentioned in the original thread. I think there's plenty of input within the longer standing and more regular users of this forum to come up with some ideas for you to freshen the site up if you so desire. If you need help down the line implementing those ideas into the coding of the site then we can deal with the best way to do that then. Ah, ok. Thanks man |
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Post by Cuz05 on Oct 29, 2014 20:58:35 GMT
Ok, so I've had a major condense of the boards, let me know what you think, there's still plenty of scope for merging and moving as well as undoing anything I've changed for the worse.
A few extra possibilities-
RRR Videos could be merged into discussions or sub boarded in creations, as suggested by Speed, instead of where I've put it. Personally, I prefer the former with Swiftys thread pinned. So it's 1 v 1 there, another opinion or several could see it anywhere.
If vids wasn't a sub board in discussions then events could be. I'm not too keen on having a lot at the top of a thread page but it's either that or having the larger category on the Home page. I did think they could work merged with discussions, pinning active ones, but I'm not so sure now.
Who We Are could be a sub board in How To Join. Luaps initial placement of it was to ensure that it was read by potential applicants, a reasoning I completely agree with but at the same time, I don't think there's much we can do to make that happen outside of requesting it in the How To Join OP. As such I don't feel it needs to be majorly flagged on the Home page. It could be the other way round but that would rather hide How To Join.
How To Join does need an edit still. If nothing else, yellow text is terrible on the light theme.
Edit. Just noticed you've given it a makeover Speed. There's a couple points I'd make. The recruiting board doesn't really exist as a seperate entity now, they create their thread with a click of the button top right of the How To Join post following my rejig. The colours really don't work with the light theme and I'd say there's too many of them for the understated nature of it as well. It's a difficult one that, because we're now looking at colours that go on both black and near white. If the light theme is gonna be default then I think 'official' posts should be created on that one to make sure they work.
Speaking of which, I'm gonna make that theme default if people are happy with that? I'm just plucking up the courage to do it, lol.
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Post by SPEEDSTER0595 on Oct 29, 2014 22:00:45 GMT
is the light theme gonna be default?
ill change it to dark colors to help and reformat it for the lighter theme and changes lol
id prefer a redder theme, light is to "bright" for me lol
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Post by Deleted on Oct 29, 2014 22:19:27 GMT
Looks more user friendly now. Im on my phone and its goimg to die ill have a better look later
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Post by coach_wargo on Oct 30, 2014 3:14:16 GMT
I like the changes. The SFW theme looks great on my phone. Still not a fan of the shout at the bottom though.
Overall it's good. Nice job.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 3:35:15 GMT
I see some changes were made to the forum. I haven't had time yet to read the entire thread for what went and what was added. I did notice rather quickly that the pending request thread is gone. Its probably been put some where else. Its good to see a fresh take in here and will always be on board for improvements.
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Post by SPEEDSTER0595 on Oct 30, 2014 3:51:12 GMT
I see some changes were made to the forum. I haven't had time yet to read the entire thread for what went and what was added. I did notice rather quickly that the pending request thread is gone. Its probably been put some where else. Its good to see a fresh take in here and will always be on board for improvements. pending requests have been moved here redrumracing.freeforums.net/board/22/join |
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Post by SPEEDSTER0595 on Oct 30, 2014 3:53:40 GMT
just noticed others can see my sex, i feel very uncomfortable about this...
ontopic, could we maybe tune down the white? opt for a light grey?
then again the red theme is always avaliable so ill mostly use that
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Post by Cuz05 on Oct 30, 2014 7:27:04 GMT
Can certainly tone down the white. Do you mean the background or the text containers? If I do one, I may do all 3 to maintain a balance.
The SFW theme is almost identical to the light theme tbh. The latter initially had that collage background but that's gone, it's also had a little more fine tuning on small details so might be better overall.
It will be default Speed, I always hated the vibe from the black theme and the red one didn't go far enough imo. I think a forum colour scheme needs to be light, friendly and open, I find the other 2 kind of oppressive. It's mainly a 1st impression thing for newer members but hopefully it'll be refreshing for others too.
I could copy this theme again and make another red theme that is brighter than the old one but duller than this one... It's quite interesting to do. I won't be in a hurry to do it tho.
So, when I get back from work, I'll fiddle the white/grey balance and set it to LIVE!
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Post by Cuz05 on Oct 30, 2014 8:33:57 GMT
I see some changes were made to the forum. I haven't had time yet to read the entire thread for what went and what was added. I did notice rather quickly that the pending request thread is gone. Its probably been put some where else. Its good to see a fresh take in here and will always be on board for improvements. pending requests have been moved here redrumracing.freeforums.net/board/22/joinI think I need to change the title there so it's clear that's where they'll be. Extra note for Grassy. Very, very little has gone and nothing has been added to the forum content, it's all mergers and reduction of boards. If you do find anything missing, it's in storage and can easily be brought back, just let me know. |
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 11:01:10 GMT
Touching on something that has already been brought up is the background colors and text that doesn't appear properly. Having both light and dark themes I don't see how we can be sure that the text will always be visible short of only using black (default) text color and that makes for a very boring board and post.
I'm now thinking that we have only 1 option along with a SFW option if that is possible. I know that some of us like to use color text and if we make it look good on the black background then on the white background it might not be readable such as any lighter shades of colors. I personally HATE the red option and find that a red background makes all color fonts (except black and white) look like horse manure.
My suggestion is to use a light gray or white theme for the main (default) and then use the same theme minus heavy graphics for the SFW option. If we do use a red option then it needs to be only the background and not the text boxes.
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Post by SPEEDSTER0595 on Oct 30, 2014 14:53:24 GMT
i dont mind the shoutbox is on the bottom, with the condensed boards its not that far away. its just needs a background image for the light theme, maybe not even a collage, just a pattern or something cool. the reason im hesitant about the light theme is because the KAPE boards are too bright, doesnt look too great :/ can we please keep the red? looks like im the only one whos gonna use it, even if it looks like horse manure lol  |
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Post by SPEEDSTER0595 on Oct 30, 2014 14:54:39 GMT
i like the color of the of the grey cuz, makes it look much better |
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Post by SPEEDSTER0595 on Oct 30, 2014 15:26:47 GMT
just noticed, the division threads for NA and Xbox need reformatting, light colors are not showing on the light theme.
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Post by Cuz05 on Oct 30, 2014 19:35:43 GMT
Aargh. The Xbox one isn't in default text colour so if I change it to black on here, it also changes to black on the black theme :?
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Post by SPEEDSTER0595 on Oct 30, 2014 20:15:10 GMT
Aargh. The Xbox one isn't in default text colour so if I change it to black on here, it also changes to black on the black theme :? correct, maybe a blue? tho i'd hate to use colours on it. A grey? |
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Post by Cuz05 on Oct 30, 2014 20:18:04 GMT
Yeah, went grey. No other choice really, it works.
Still not keen on my purple name. Was very used to yellow.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 20:25:43 GMT
tbh, I'm not keen on the girly purple either. Maybe Red? I don't think it'd blend in too much and if it did we can always change it back to girly purple or try another color. |
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Post by SPEEDSTER0595 on Oct 30, 2014 20:34:13 GMT
could give other crews purple, and use red, itd match the new theme imo
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 21:06:44 GMT
Muscle would be better red
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Post by Cuz05 on Oct 30, 2014 21:22:25 GMT
Ah, that's a good point Swift, there's me just changed us to manly red.
and... ahem... silver stars.
I dunno if I wanna be green...
Done anyway. I'll see what it looks like after a nights sleep.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 30, 2014 21:33:45 GMT
Ah, that's a good point Swift, there's me just changed us to manly red. and... ahem... silver stars. You've gone absolutely power mad hahaha fucking silver stars |
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