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grazr

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Whilst i was always a fan of darker forums (reading in the dark, on my monitor, was a frequent if bad habit, and dark forums helped relieve the pain of black on white forums). TF2maps was one of the few sites that did light colours well. The baje-orange colour was enough that the light and/or saturation didn't obliterate your eyes.

This forum didn't need to turn to black, it's a forum design fad that we have no need to follow.

edit: Also, clicking someones name brings a drop down menu of avialable actions (PM, view public profile etc). It still appears in the original forums colour.

edit2: Also, someone mentioned the sig space is actually larger with that hider icon. This is too true. Posts also arn't actually smaller as a result of the lacking sigs, it's just small-to-moderate posts with large blank spaces underneath. Or large posts with the "hidden" icon and a blank space where the sig would have been.

edit3: also also, i find my eyes drawn to the space between the avatar and the post contents/under post contents. Rather than the posters name and then post contents. Which is just odd.
 
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tyler

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Could the default avatar size go from 75x75 to 100x100? It's kind of annoyed me forever. I can't crunch my avatar that small and have it be recognizable and I hate going without. It's a small complaint, but I think a lot of people would appreciate it.
 

RavenStryker

Former Alias: †Blade†/Xi.Cynx
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Could the default avatar size go from 75x75 to 100x100? It's kind of annoyed me forever. I can't crunch my avatar that small and have it be recognizable and I hate going without. It's a small complaint, but I think a lot of people would appreciate it.

This was brought up by me a little while ago and nothing was done with it.
 

Acumen

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I activated the User Signature in the Options and it still don't show. Kinda not good.
But the login works now for me !

On the dark forum part. Polycount has a kinda similar theme as well. And they did the avatar section in a darker color then the actual post, so you have a visible border.
example:
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=68762

I'm confident in the statt to give us the option of using the new or old theme :)
You got my votes !
 

lana

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Hey look it's that guy that doesn't play TF2.

If you don't like the dark theme go back to the light one. I like this one.
 

mdawgmike

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It looks very nice overall, but two things that are bugging me:

a) Where did the big "Download this map" button go for the map threads?

b) Dark text on a light background is almost always easier to read and reference than vice-versa...would be nice if you gave an alternative that offered this
 

lana

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The download button is broken for the time being, but still works, and the dark text on light background isn't as easy on the eyes as you may think it is. That said, the dark on light version is available through that link I just posted.

Also how is the featured maps thing going to work?
 

Acumen

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Me, personally, I can't access that style9"-thing. It just redirects me to the frontpage and the forums look the same.

Also I tried to disable and enable the signatures in my profile and still I can't see them at once.
 

EArkham

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Me, personally, I can't access that style9"-thing. It just redirects me to the frontpage and the forums look the same.

Also I tried to disable and enable the signatures in my profile and still I can't see them at once.

Same here. It does nothing different.

Kep
 

StickZer0

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No, it still works, Nerdboy just posted the wrong link.

I won't repost it though as I see it as pretty disrespectful to drp and all who made the new forum style
 

Owlruler

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I still don't have the new style >.>
 
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Glacier is listed as CTF at the top.

And can you please remove VIP threads from the recent threads for non-VIP members?