Can another theme be added for the forums?

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I'm going to slowly migrate the various guides I've authored over time to the Resources section, now that it's working.

@JoshDW19 - many thanks for getting that thing to work. (Now comes the nitpicking :p). Spacing in the resources section suffers from the same issue as comments did. It just needs a little bit of indent.
 

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on behalf of @Ericloewe im requesting that a *sigh* emoticon be added to the forum
 

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And the search it was replaced with is virtually useless for those of us who knew how to make use of the old search. I shouldn't have to go to one of my web servers and pull referer logs to find old threads I've posted ${something} in.

My experience is that you can't really find things in the forums without voodoo. Just replace $oldvoodoo with $newvoodoo.
 

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on behalf of @Ericloewe im requesting that a *sigh* emoticon be added to the forum
Getting a *sigh* emoji integrated in the next version of Unicode is probably an easier task.
 

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Why not a gif?
SIMON-COWELL-HAPPY-GIF.gif
 

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Things that should be fixed so far on "New Theme":

Added an identifiable div container and text to the search box
Made search box responsive
Fixed signature spacing
Fixed resource section permissions for all users
Added @media query to fix the navigation bar getting shoved under the blue sub-menu bar on mobile devices
Very basic theming of search results landing page - not happy with the way it looks, but I need more time to divide the CSS tags
Adjust font sizes on blue sub-menu bar to the size of the "default" forum theme

I may have missed a few things, but I think that covers a lot of the major things you all were looking for. I'll start working on it again after the weekend (maybe during the weekend if I get bored!). Enjoy the long weekend everyone!

It's probably pebcak, but scrolling in the text editor seems to be hit and miss (mostly miss) in a mobile browser.
 

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It's probably pebcak, but scrolling in the text editor seems to be hit and miss (mostly miss) in a mobile browser.
I used to have that problem a lot.

I can't remember if it fixed itself (presumably due to a XenForo update) or if it was fixed with a browser update...

These days, everything works rather well on my phone, which is one of the features of this forum that enable me to procrastinate so much...
 

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Hello!

I don't know if there are any pcbsd.forums.org users here, but since I managed to create some IMHO nice themes there (pcbsd-duende hues/dark), I figured I could help out over here to do the same sort of work. Xenforo is exceptionally different than myBB so it took some time to understand. However, even with the "encyclopedia-sized" configurator for themes that Xenforo has, I have chosen to do things much more manually. The 'Experimental' theme that is now available is mostly complete, so I have made it available to general users. I will be continuing to tweak and fix any odd-colored things and eventually plan to create variations (dark, blue, green) as I did on the other forum site. Other improvements will necessarily be much less visible but IMHO are even more necessary such as: removing invalid CSS, adding a lot more .class or #id within the templates to greatly ease identfying units for style/color changes, preference of CSS over other methods (such as not using png-gradients), other possible structural changes in the templates, hopefully speeding up load/render time, removing any redundancies or excesses (there are 12 .js files loaded here but only 3 on the pcbsd site).. and so on and on. The hue/dark themes will undoubtedly get completed before any of the other cleanup but just giving you all some thoughts on what I hope to accomplish. Even as 'Experimental' is available, the actual finalized theme will be a duplicate with a different name (eventually- likely after the cleanup is nearly done).
 

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Hello!

I don't know if there are any pcbsd.forums.org users here, but since I managed to create some IMHO nice themes there (pcbsd-duende hues/dark), I figured I could help out over here to do the same sort of work. Xenforo is exceptionally different than myBB so it took some time to understand. However, even with the "encyclopedia-sized" configurator for themes that Xenforo has, I have chosen to do things much more manually. The 'Experimental' theme that is now available is mostly complete, so I have made it available to general users. I will be continuing to tweak and fix any odd-colored things and eventually plan to create variations (dark, blue, green) as I did on the other forum site. Other improvements will necessarily be much less visible but IMHO are even more necessary such as: removing invalid CSS, adding a lot more .class or #id within the templates to greatly ease identfying units for style/color changes, using CSS for gradients instead of loading images (note that the majority of those png-gradients are gone in my theme), other possible structural changes in the templates, hopefully speeding up load/render time, removing any redundancies or excesses (there are 12 .js files loaded here but only 3 on the pcbsd site).. and so on and on. The hue/dark themes will undoubtedly get completed before any of the other cleanup but just giving you all some thoughts on what I hope to accomplish. Even as 'Experimental' is available, the actual finalized theme will be a duplicate with a different name (eventually- likely after the cleanup is nearly done).
Thanks for doing this!
 

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I know it's a bit unusual to have 10 pages of unread posts, but the bottom navigation bar looks a little strange with the arrows inside the number bar.
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Hyperlinks don't show up in the text editor.
The color is very slightly different, I think, but nearly indistinguishable.
 
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