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Nubmer6

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That's all well and good but.....


....I'm using Firefox.
There's Stylish for FF also. Gonna try his skin in a bit.

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OK, just kicked it on. It's definitely MUCH, MUCH better.

If you want to use it in FF, go to add-ons and search for/install Stylish.

Next, click on his link and hit the Install button.

Finally, go to configure stylish and enable the BBA HFBoards style (it only gets applied to hfboards.mandatory.com).
 
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this layout is terrible, but a silver lining is Saugus being listed as a notable member

Now THERE'S a name I haven't seen a LOOOOONG time.
There's Stylish for FF also. Gonna try his skin in a bit.

-edit-
OK, just kicked it on. It's definitely MUCH, MUCH better.

If you want to use it in FF, go to add-ons and search for/install Stylish.

Next, click on his link and hit the Install button.

Finally, go to configure stylish and enable the BBA HFBoards style (it only gets applied to hfboards.mandatory.com).


You are a life-saver, Nubmer6. Now the site is usable again for me.
 

Nubmer6

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Now THERE'S a name I haven't seen a LOOOOONG time.



You are a life-saver, Nubmer6. Now the site is usable again for me.
I think I have a slight problem with the skin. It looks like every thread is bolded, so I don't know what I've already read. I'll have to see if there's a workaround, or if it's just something silly I did.
 

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My biggest issue isn't the appearance, something's different on the new host where now the ****ing site is blocked by my works IT system. Its now considered "mixed use/potentially adult". Been on this site for 7 years at this company without any issue. And I cant possibly be the only one with this problem.

Same here. Now I'm going to have to find some other way to waste time at work.:whatever:
 

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South of the Philly area in Cumberland. Only just graduated sooo Basic IT or Admin IT stuff I dont care :dunno:

sucks I didn't know about this earlier, I work for a benefits administration firm and we just hired some IT help. I'll keep you in mind if we do anymore. I know we're always looking for DEV help, but our IT dep is pretty small
 

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So does this let us go back to a certain period and "like" old posts? I'll have to go back and have some fun here
 

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The old layout was the best forum layout I've ever seen. This is just another shitty generic one
 

Nubmer6

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Ok, I think I have a fix. I'll try to contact whoever made the skin, but until then, if you feel adventurous...

1. Go to Stylish config, go to Manage Styles, find BBA HFBoards, and hit the Edit button.

2. In the resulting edit window, go to line 94. It should say:
a.username.author, .publicControls a, .discussionListItem .title a, .discussionListItem .lastPostInfo .username {
color: #f4f4f4;
font-weight: bold;
text-shadow: 0 0 5px rgba(0,0,0,.9);
}


Replace those lines with:

a.username.author, .publicControls a, .discussionListItem .lastPostInfo .username {
color: #f4f4f4;
font-weight: bold;
text-shadow: 0 0 5px rgba(0,0,0,.9);
}

.discussionListItem .title a {
color: #f4f4f4;
text-shadow: 0 0 5px rgba(0,0,0,.9);
}



The problem is that they're forcing a bunch of things to be BOLD, but the title in the main list (discussionListItem) shouldn't be bold, so I just pulled it out with the same settings except for the BOLD font-weight.

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I just figured out something a bit simpler...

In step 2, instead of inserting all that code, you can do this instead, and threads with unread messages will be larger:

Go to line 157. I should read "font-size: 11.7pt;"
Change the 11.7pt to something larger like 13.7pt.
This will make unread threads have larger titles.

Alternatively, you can add add a line under it:
color: #44f4f4;
This will make threads with unread messages to be teal!
 
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It's SO much better with the Stylish add-on.

Even so, It's a dramatic step down. It's almost as if pointlessly changing classic things that everyone likes and is used to is a bad idea.
 

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Ok, I think I have a fix. I'll try to contact whoever made the skin, but until then, if you feel adventurous...

1. Go to Stylish config, go to Manage Styles, find BBA HFBoards, and hit the Edit button.

2. In the resulting edit window, go to line 94. It should say:
a.username.author, .publicControls a, .discussionListItem .title a, .discussionListItem .lastPostInfo .username {
color: #f4f4f4;
font-weight: bold;
text-shadow: 0 0 5px rgba(0,0,0,.9);
}


Replace those lines with:

a.username.author, .publicControls a, .discussionListItem .lastPostInfo .username {
color: #f4f4f4;
font-weight: bold;
text-shadow: 0 0 5px rgba(0,0,0,.9);
}

.discussionListItem .title a {
color: #f4f4f4;
text-shadow: 0 0 5px rgba(0,0,0,.9);
}



The problem is that they're forcing a bunch of things to be BOLD, but the title in the main list (discussionListItem) shouldn't be bold, so I just pulled it out with the same settings except for the BOLD font-weight.

Many thanks sir!
 

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It's SO much better with the Stylish add-on.

Even so, It's a dramatic step down. It's almost as if pointlessly changing classic things that everyone likes and is used to is a bad idea.
Naaaaaw...everything's fine. Just give it time. You'll loooooove it and soon you won't even recognize that the old was just perfect and accept the downgrade as inevitable. I'm sure some of this basicness is in tribute to one of the first hockey discussion boards online :laugh:
 
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Oh no. Oh yes.

Also quoting people is a pain now..

Edit: I saw that Nico Nico gif

I decided that would be too much. I will save all Yazawa Nico gifs for Nico goals only. But I may need to find some other anime gif. Though I found a good Hischier gif.
 

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Naaaaaw...everything's fine. Just give it time. You'll loooooove it and soon you won't even recognize that the old was just perfect and accept the downgrade as inevitable. I'm sure some of this basicness is in tribute to one of the first hockey discussion boards online :laugh:

Yeah, whoever owns HFBoards needs to get hockey players and hockey media to make coordinated tweets and FB posts timed for release within a few hours of each other, all telling everyone how "great" the new HFBoards changes look.
 

NJDevs26

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Honestly I think there are things that can be improved and things that are better about the new version, I don't think it's as black and white as saying it's clearly worse or it's clearly better. And some of it is still a work in progress.
 

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The place needed a social media update (no links to Reddit but inline linking to Digg and del.icio.us? come on lol) but the default white style takes away a lot of the uniqueness and makes it look like any other message board from the early 2000's. It's much better with the Stylish theme but still.

I don't know about the 'likes' and 'trophies' either. It has the chance of encouraging cliques, etc. It's really up to the userbase to make sure it's not misused. Also, do we get alerts when someone replies to one of your posts? That was probably one of my biggest frustrations with the old system.

HFBoards does need to compete with Reddit before it loses more of its userbase. I've found myself reading both the main subreddit and the team subreddit a lot more. I still like going back here because the in-depth discussion is much better. As someone who is a casual/lurker poster though, it does get frustrating never getting my posts replied to and receiving no feedback.

Edit: The ability to find my posts on my user page seems to be a lot better. I'm hoping the search function is much better too. The quality of life changes seem to be a big positive, but I would personally move closer to the old graphic design and bring back the shattered glass logo.
 

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Is there a quick way to make the board barebones too (no signatures, no avatars, etc)? With the last one, I would go back and forth with the 'Mobile' theme. I like browsing this board at work and that Nico gif is gonna get me some looks.
 

Blender

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Honestly I think there are things that can be improved and things that are better about the new version, I don't think it's as black and white as saying it's clearly worse or it's clearly better. And some of it is still a work in progress.
Xenforo is clearly better than VB, but the style used needs work. There are a lot better styles available, and Xenforo is fairly easy to customize.
 

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Is there a quick way to make the board barebones too (no signatures, no avatars, etc)? With the last one, I would go back and forth with the 'Mobile' theme. I like browsing this board at work and that Nico gif is gonna get me some looks.

Hover over your username, select preferences, then uncheck "Show peoples signatures with their messages"

I was just going to delete it because it's already annoying me, but the option to edit or remove it is suddenly gone.
 
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