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What primary color scheme should SoylentNews have?
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You know, the difference between this company and the Titanic is that the
Titanic had paying customers.
(Score: 4, Informative) by SMI on Friday February 28 2014, @02:56AM
See this [soylentnews.org] thread. I'm sure it's still possible, eventually.
(Score: 2) by clone141166 on Friday February 28 2014, @03:04AM
Thanks SMI, I didn't realise there were technical limitations behind supporting multiple colour schemes simultaneously.
(Score: 5, Informative) by lgsoynews on Friday February 28 2014, @02:06PM
I think the easiest way is to modify your style-sheet. For a basic example, using the extension "Stylish" in Firefox, I added that :
The result: an ugly blue for the comment titles (tested on the current page).
I'm a heavy user of Stylish, and -to a smaller extent- Greasemonkey. In some cases, I've almost completely modified the UI of some tools (Redmine for instance), to make them more usable. It's amazing what one can do with those tools. I modified Redmine so heavily that my colleagues did not recognize it at once. For instance, I added small icons for each of the people who worked with me (using inline -base64- images).
The only pb is that the site must use CSS in a clever way. Some sites don't and it's painful to change elements, sometimes you have to use the full access path, ouch! And when anything changes in the CSS, agh!
BTW this is how I minimized the pain of the Beta version of a site that shall remain nameless :-)
Given that most (all) people here are quite technical, this could be an efficient intermediate solution. We could even have an area with the schemes downloadable as CSS user-styles...
(Score: 2) by SMI on Friday February 28 2014, @08:17PM
Thank you very much, you introduced me to the solution that I was looking for. Instead of changing SN itself, we should change the way that our browsers display it. That gives everyone the theme-ability without any legal complications for SN. After reading your comment and poking around a bit, I'm now using Stylish [mozilla.org] with one [userstyles.org] of the color schemes available on userstyles.org [userstyles.org].
(Score: 1) by Ryuugami on Monday March 03 2014, @08:14AM
Thank you for that color scheme link, I was thinking of writing a style myself, but didn't yet get around to it.
Seems to require a few tweaks (from my POV, green on red is NOT a good combination for a title - or almost anywhere, for that matter), but it's a decent starting point.
As for the poll, I voted green - with a name like "Soylent", it seemed natural. With the Other Site switching over to white, soon enough there wouldn't be any confusion anyway :) Though a different shade would probably be a good idea.
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(Score: 1) by FakeBeldin on Saturday March 01 2014, @02:37PM
I just tried in Firefox (inspect element), setting background-color to #004488; ;-)
That's starting to look in a direction I'd like even better than the current red. (Yes I voted blue
(Score: 2) by maxwell demon on Sunday March 02 2014, @10:40AM
I just tried it and found I don't like that blue ;-) However playing a bit with the colours I found #aa9933 gives a nice green which is far enough from the Slashdot green that I doubt it would generate any trademark problems.
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(Score: 1) by FakeBeldin on Wednesday March 05 2014, @01:27PM
I tried your color, and I'm pretty sure our monitors happen to fall on different ends of the calibration spectrum.
Which indicates a problem: how to pick a color that looks acceptable on most default-calibrated monitors?
(For simplicity's sake, we can reduce it to "looking acceptable on both Maxwell demon's monitor and on FakeBeldin's monitor)
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Friday February 28 2014, @12:41PM
I guess I'd have to look at the underlying code, but couldn't there be a variable chosen by the user, held in a cookie, that would point to the right stylesheet? Why would it need separate instances of Apache?
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(Score: 2) by Khyber on Sunday March 02 2014, @04:05AM
What cluster-fuckery is it that one can't just put a simple hexadecimal color identifier in their preferences section?
If you need to spawn multiple instances of Apache to handle something so basic and fucking trivial, that section of code needs to be abandoned ENTIRELY.
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(Score: 2) by FatPhil on Sunday March 02 2014, @02:45PM
Perhaps |. had the right idea - slashcode was the one which was designed to throw away.
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