looks like something is messing up the API page CSS
That happened because of a āfalse startā with the new forum yesterday night, mentioned by jules here: Welcome to the new forum and JUCE 4.2
Maybe two themes could be provided and each user may choose which one to use?
Donāt think it supports that AFAIK
Ah sorry, I confused that with the āLanguageā setting while quickly updating my profile details.
I saw a combo and automatically thought ācool, multiple themesā. My fault!
My desire for a dark theme would be if the site could support multiple themes, rather than radically changing the design for everyone. The white doesnāt bother me too much since at night I use f.lux to prevent eyestrain from bright colors.
Sadly, I think itās hard to please everyone because weāre a bunch of programmers who get stuck in our ways and complain either way. Think like when Facebook was changing the user home page every so often and the whole world would complain for a month and then accept it. We see the flaws with the old things and complain about how we think they could be done better, then when they change based on our feedback we see the smallest details that are wrong (in a still changing platform) and continue complaining.
Like I said, I think overall this new forum is a massive upgrade to the early-2000ās look of the old one.
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One thing I would definitely recommend is that dates include the year.
I searched for a post and did not know what year it was from.
A jump list does not solve the problem of navigating. Maybe making it full width is what I am missing. Heck I have a high res monitor and the forum is only using half the screen
Am I missing something?
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I think that the year is not mentioned when the post is in the current year. For older posts, you get Month and 'year, for example Dec '13 (but, I agree, thatās easily misunderstood for 13th December rather than December 2013)
Thanks, that explains the year confusion although I wish it were obvious.
The font sucks 
Too thin and big?
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Better in Helvetica, or Open Sans?? e.g. 
The good news is that image paste is GREAT 
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Yeah, the font seems to be top of the āmoan listā! We hear youā¦
Probably looks great on the right retina macbook 
But on my old cinema display itās super-fuzz and thin with a lot of the verticals being antialiased into a blur! Not sure whether the screenshot will do the effect justice, but as itās easy now to paste one in:
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Actually I like it the way it is, font and color scheme. Some things to get used to, but I trust in our abilitiesā¦
Just missing the tags, eventually instead of the categories. Doesnāt need to be creatable by everyone, it could start a hash-tag-mania, but tags like āMultiBusā, or āOSCā or āMIDI eventsā would help to sort things fasterā¦
Nice work as usual! My congratulations to all Juce/Roli people.
Of course, something flaws has to be pruned, but happy to belong to this community!
Gabriel
Ok my 2 cents:
- overall more āmodernā, but do we care ?
- Donāt really care about the font, but Bazrushās remarks (among others) seem reasonable
- I hate the ā¦ in the dropdown menus, there should be enough room to list the complete submenu titles. That would be my main criticism
- I will answer my own post (this one) when I use this more and find other relevant issues
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I really wish you guys had gone with ProBoards or SimpleMachineForums instead of whatever you guys are using nowā¦ This new forum interface is probably gonna make me use the forum even less because itās harder to find anything. At least turn on a global navigation header that isnāt hidden behind some dropdown hamburger thing.
Also, all of our private messages were not imported when you changed forum software.
I like the new forum including the theme, the font is ok, it does look nice on hi-res displays, but for big chunks of text there indeed are more readable and space-efficient (less wide) fonts including the ones that have been mentionned above. Thanks for the bright background. If someone really dislikes the font/bg, then thereās always the option of override the css file in your own browser.
I would really appreciate a dark themeā¦ I canāt look at this bright theme for more than a minute or two without getting a headache.
If you dislike bright backgrounds in general, try the āCare your Eyesā addon for chrome. It allows dark bgs on any webpage and works nicely with the juce forum.