RE: Forum steem

therealwolf (76) 6 years ago (edited)

User @thecryptodrive wrote at 16.06.2019 22:30:54 UTC:

Thanks for your feedback @therealwolf, Battlenet is nice, however we have already commissioned and paid for this theme and we have so many other improvements we need to roll out, fortunately the themes are open source and anyone can develop and theme and sumbit it as a contribution, can even create a business around developing themes for TokenBB customers. We will keep this in mind if no one submits any theme alternatives before we get around to it.

The fact that this forum exists on tokenbb is clearly benefiting your company, so I'm not really sure why the responsibilities to improve the color sheme is not inside your scope. But even if you're commissioning a theme, wouldn't it make sense to ensure it's properly done?

And to clear up a possible confusion point: I don't mean to remove the blue element, but rather make it more enjoyable for the eyes.

For example:

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2 votes

gutenmorganism (53) 6 years ago

Thanks so much for the feedback, @therealwolf!

I'm glad you like the updated mockups. Like I said in the latest mockup, good user interface design feeds off of user input, and I'm glad that you didn't hesitate to tell us what wasn't working.

In addition to being much easier on the eyes, the transparent look helps show off the background: that's the Carina Nebula, thank you NASA.

If there's anything else about the forum UI that doesn't sit right, let us know and we'll see what we can do.

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2 votes

therealwolf (76) 6 years ago

Yes, much better! There is no text in the last screenshot, but it's simply important to have a good contrast between background & text, which isn't draining the eyes too much.

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1 vote

therealwolf (76) 6 years ago

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User @thecryptodrive wrote at 19.06.2019 22:57:10 UTC:

@therealwolf, my eye for graphics is not as good as yours, can you tell me if the text looks okay in the mockup below:

Yes looking great!

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thecryptodrive (70) 6 years ago (edited)

@therealwolf can you let us know if this mockup is more subtle?

if you are happy we will take it further.

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thecryptodrive (70) 6 years ago

@therealwolf what do you think now of the colour fix?

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thecryptodrive (70) 6 years ago

Thanks for your feedback @therealwolf, Battlenet is nice, however we have already commissioned and paid for this theme and we have so many other improvements we need to roll out, fortunately the themes are open source and anyone can develop and theme and sumbit it as a contribution, can even create a business around developing themes for TokenBB customers. We will keep this in mind if no one submits any theme alternatives before we get around to it.

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thecryptodrive (70) 6 years ago

I also think it could be nice if users also have options to choose from a few variations of the same forum theme, as approved by the forum owner as they have to represent the forum's brand properly and not just be any old theme applied.

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8 votes

thecryptodrive (70) 6 years ago (edited)

I gave everyone the opportunity to get involved in structuring and planning this forum in my post and even created a forum planning channel in Steem Devs Slack, very few people engaged and gave input so we went ahead and did it as best as we could and approved the artwork ourselves. As I said we have so much to do to improve this forum including mobile responsiveness, the Ui isn't that bad looking alot of people have said they like it so before we expend more resources on the design we would love to get consensus first from a few more forum users on what they would like to see, some might have other ideas besides going with a theme like Battlenet.

We are not ignoring improvements on the theme, this forum is currently in stealth launch mode and we are taking valued feedback like yours and will see what we can do.

@therealwolf your colour suggestion looks nice, thanks for that screenshot, will see if we get internal consensus to get that amended.

BTW everyone will benefit from this forum not only us, we will be rolling out beneficiary rewards for topic creators likely 5%/5%.