Anime Your test site sucks

[samuraigaiden]

RIP

 

[luj1]

Looks great

 

[Duraframe300]

Before you all harp on too much, be aware that DU is jumping between 2 basically incompatible versions, and so he basically has to redevelop the entire style.
Give him some time.

LOL no

Those rounded corners and a lot of other shit that looks ugly aren't enforced. I've already posted examples of forums that updated Xenforo also:

Just to give examples here's a few I found by a few seconds of searching.

https://localsearchforum.com/
https://arsenal-mania.com/forum/

Somehow these sites didn't have to go full web 3.0 design like rpgcodex did.

Also what is it with the avatars moving when scrolling down threads?

Very much this. Who the fuck comes up with this shit.

They also don't feature this, so worst case this was done on purpose by DU.

 

[Absinthe]

Notice that the first one has a "design adapted by" and the second has "design by" at the bottom of their pages. They modded the UI until it stopped looking like complete shit. You're welcome to try to find a xenforo style/theme that helps, but I think in the end this is going to be a lot of manual fixing.

 

[Ranselknulf]

Notice that the first one has a "design adapted by" and the second has "design by" at the bottom of their pages. They modded the UI until it stopped looking like complete shit. You're welcome to try to find a style that helps, but I think in the end this is going to be a lot of manual fixing.

If it's God's will, then so be it.

 

[Hirato]

Before you all harp on too much, be aware that DU is jumping between 2 basically incompatible versions, and so he basically has to redevelop the entire style.
Give him some time.

LOL no

Those rounded corners and a lot of other shit that looks ugly aren't enforced. I've already posted examples of forums that updated Xenforo also:

I mostly said that because I'm sure there's a lot more wrong with the new site than just the style,
and if everyone is hyper-focussed on the style, all those things are going to be missed, and the dex will be even bitchier than usual.

 

[Rincewind]

Fans of tiny fonts will love this. It's a most prestigious website, but I must view it at 150% zoom otherwise I feel physical pain in my eyes from trying to focus. Very 90s design!

https://hol.abime.net/

 

[SerratedBiz]

So... each post has the username UNDER the text, so you don't realize how shitty the take will be until after you've read it.

I'm in favor of this change.

-Qwinn

 

[GhostCow]

Fans of tiny fonts will love this. It's a most prestigious website, but I must view it at 150% zoom otherwise I feel physical pain in my eyes from trying to focus. Very 90s design!

https://hol.abime.net/

I'm now convinced that we need a fundraiser to buy glasses for all the codexers who can't see shit

 

[Gastrick]

The test site fucking sucks, whoever thought of it should off themselves.

 

[Rincewind]

Fans of tiny fonts will love this. It's a most prestigious website, but I must view it at 150% zoom otherwise I feel physical pain in my eyes from trying to focus. Very 90s design!

https://hol.abime.net/

I'm now convinced that we need a fundraiser to buy glasses for all the codexers who can't see shit

I have glasses already 10 or 20 years ago I would've found that tiny text easier to read (without glasses), but I never liked too small text to begin with, even when I was 20 and I could read it without much trouble.

Like I said, it's only a matter of time you'll need to use your browser's zoom functionality. Like my wife, she used to have 20/20 vision in all her life, now she's unable to read the fine print on packaging without glasses... It pisses her off, but that's life for you. Usually the decline happens quite abruptly, it's quite surprising, really; a month ago you could read everything with ease, now you can't anymore.

 

[GhostCow]

Fans of tiny fonts will love this. It's a most prestigious website, but I must view it at 150% zoom otherwise I feel physical pain in my eyes from trying to focus. Very 90s design!

https://hol.abime.net/

I'm now convinced that we need a fundraiser to buy glasses for all the codexers who can't see shit

I have glasses already 10 or 20 years ago I would've found that tiny text easier to read (without glasses), but I never liked too small text to begin with, even when I was 20 and I could read it without much trouble.

Like I said, it's only a matter of time you'll need to use your browser's zoom functionality. Like my wife, she used to have 20/20 vision in all her life, now she's unable to read the fine print on packaging without glasses... It pisses her off, but that's life for you.

I have bad astigmatism and my implant was set for long distance vision so I'm actually using progressively weaker reading glasses as time goes on. I was using +2.0 7 years ago and I'm down to +1.50 now. If I had the opposite problem I'd just get stronger reading glasses. Time to update your prescription grandpa!

 

[Rincewind]

Time to update your prescription grandpa!

I'm -1.00 and it hasn't changed over the last 10 years. But focusing on too small text still causes eyestrain.

Anyway, the font size "issue" is largely a moot point, I actually don't care much about the default font size, everybody can adjust it to their liking using the zoom function. Just make the new design a fluid layout, so it can better adapt better to font size changes (that's a prerequisite for mobile anyway).

 

[Ismaul]

This is not the first forum update where the whole thing has to be redesigned. The first version close to the default always looks like shit, but it is not its final form.

Just give it time. Mods hate the Xenforo look just as much.

 

[Melcar]

Looks too stale. Like it's too afraid to offend someone. It's shit.

 

[Roguey]

This is not the first forum update where the whole thing has to be redesigned. The first version close to the default always looks like shit, but it is not its final form.

Just give it time. Mods hate the Xenforo look just as much.

Always remember https://web.archive.org/web/20120101175516/https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php

 

[Tavernking]

This is not the first forum update where the whole thing has to be redesigned. The first version close to the default always looks like shit, but it is not its final form.

Just give it time. Mods hate the Xenforo look just as much.

Always remember https://web.archive.org/web/20120101175516/https://rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php

That looks better than what you're currently planning.

 

[Gastrick]

This is what it actually looked like originally:

https://web.archive.org/web/20050211072616/http://www.rpgcodex.com/

 

[Modron]

I had forgotten about this variant
https://web.archive.org/web/20021127140229/http://rpgcodex.com/

here in its earliest colors
https://web.archive.org/web/20021021165250/http://www.rpgcodex.com

 

[Gastrick]

The funny thing is, is that the current codex site looks better on mobile than on PC, and better than any "mobile friendly" website. So making it look more mobile-like has the opposite effect.

 

[KörangarTheMighty]

https://web.archive.org/web/20030528121827/http://www.rpgcodex.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?t=62

This actually looks fine. I don't even mind the colors really.

 

[Lacrymas]

The new site really is terrible, both on mobile and PC. There's so much wrong about it that it's better just to scrap it. The current one is fine.

 

[Tacgnol]

The current one is fine.

XF1 is end of life. So no it isn't fine.

Generally not a good idea to run end of life webapps that don't get security updates, especially with all the butthurt individuals we have out for blood.

 

[Grauken]

The current one is fine.

XF1 is end of life. So no it isn't fine.

Generally not a good idea to run end of life webapps that don't get security updates, especially with all the butthurt individuals we have out for blood.

yup, someone getting his hand on all user email addresses is probably not something most of us would like, even if its burner accounts

 

[NJClaw]

I still can't wrap my head around how bad the new look is. The only thing that gives me strength is the hope that everything might be in such a "pre-pre-pre-alpha" state that the final result won't remind this mess in any way, shape, or form.

What hurts me the most are the omnipresent rounded edges. Why. Why would you do this to us, DU? Around posts, around reactions, around profiles, around profile stats, around profile pictures, around menus, around numbers. There are rounded edges fucking everywhere. God, I love rectangles so much.