Update the forum to a dark theme. Additionally the "post new thread" and thread tables in general are toooo wide especially on a widescreen monitor. vbulletin updated this years ago. One line in a post or sentence is 32" long.... literally. I don't own a single book that a sentence runs on that long..... if so there are carriage returns and paragraphs.

 

We're actually on the way to exploring a dark theme, but I'm not entirely clear on the timeline of when it will launch.


......how big is your screen?

 

Not taking away what Jose said, but a good browser has the ability to provide a "dark theme" already. Firefox can do this with their built-in settings. Chrome has the ability to do it with an add-on. This means not having to rely on every single website you visit to have a dark theme.

Regarding the too wide comment, I'd like to see an example, such as an example showing how you believe it should work, to make sure I understand your concern. To me, it's taking advantage of a widescreen. Otherwise, you're going to have wasted blank space and not benefit from the widescreen.

 

It's just an addon in the theme directory, literally takes less than 5 minutes.

 

The problem is it's not an efficient way when you only need a minor appearance change as the styles are a way to change the entire layout. It's a second set of styles to maintain with overhead - just to simply change a few colors.

 

Not even close. I used to administrate and design forums. Also a retired system and network engineer. There is no overhead, especially with darker themes.

Adding a plugin to someone's browser causes more problems than anything else. Additionally, people need to be worried about privacy concerns due to ****-for-brains developers injecting spyware in their applications. do not mention stylish or other crap extensions.

 

As I said, you need a separate style, which comes with its own set of templates, just to change some colors. So I stand with my personal comment of considering that as "overhead" and that it's not an efficient way. Don't know what you mean by dark themes especially having no overhead. They still have the same amount of templates and structure involved regardless of the color.

 

How you administered and designed forums is probably different from how we do them. Despite the plain appearances our forums colors are coded in color percentage ratios of each other, so it's not a quick "make it dark" fix, and we wouldn't be just offering a dark theme here on F150Forum, but across every single forum in our network, which currently is 130 of them. A lot of our users also associate the colors and the "look" of the site a part of the brand, and any dark theme we build would have to respect that as much as possible.

Again, we're not against building out a dark theme--we already are working on it, just takes longer than you'd expect for us to roll out a feature to our entire network.

 

If by "dark" theme you mean a black background using white lettering, no thanks.

 

Most forums that offer a change is done by the end user so it's not one for all. You could select a light theme, and I might select a dark theme. It's not blanket coverage, at least it shouldn't be.

The last forum I ran I had multiple themes each user could choose from. And it is as easy as @barium describes, when it's done on a one web site/forum basis. I can imagine it might be a little more extensive a change spread out over 130 forums.