New forum theme testing

[Feallan]

Hey everyone.

As you probably already know, the forum really could use a modern, responsive theme that works correctly on mobile devices. I've tried several over the years but everything I found had many problems and requires annoying changes, which I couldn't easily carry over multiple version updates. MyBB version 1.9 is supposed to bring modern responsive themes but its development already takes many more years than originally claimed, so we we're in kind of awkward situation. What we have is usable on mobiles, but not particularly good in my opinion

Recently I learned about Curves UI project (https://community.mybb.com/mods.php?acti...w&pid=1594). The author wants to bring modern looking UI to MyBB 1.8.x. It looks the best of any MyBB "modern" themes I've seen so far, so I decided to try it out on our forum.

At this point it's pretty much the stock theme with barely any changes. It needs many tweaks to functionality (e.g. it doesn't display the thanks button and thanks given area, some buttons are not properly styled etc,) and colors. But it seems nice and I wanted to know what you think, before I do anything else with it

So far I restricted the theme to power users group and above, because it's not ready for a "wide release" so to speak. You can change the theme in User CP -> Your Profile -> Edit options -> Board Style: Fanrestore responsive theme (Curves UI). If you check it out, please report any report issues you find in this thread

Once this new UI is patched up for our uses, I'd like to set is as default for the forum, and the old theme would remain as an option - but I will be removing the current mobile theme (MyBB Go Mobile)

I also added a plugin that displays user avatars in more places than before (last poster avatar etc), along with this new theme

[MrBrown]

So far, I only noticed one small (optical) issue:
On mobile phones, in private messages, the list of messages has the Senders name next to it. But longer Usernames tend to leave the framing (at least the thought framing) of the whole design to the right. Looking a bit odd and messy, compared to the overall very sorted design.

I know, this is just a very minor issue, and if there is no way to fix it, thats fine, it just caught me totally by surprise, and it just looks "odd" and "bugged" that way.

EDIT: Also some of the shortened hread titles on the main overview in the desktop theme have their '...' leaving their framing bounds to the right.

[alleycat]

It looks like I've lost the ability to like a post under the new layout - is that intended?

[Feallan]

It looks like I've lost the ability to like a post under the new layout - is that intended?

No, it's because the theme doesn't support most plugins by default, so I'll have to fix it up for likes, alerts etc

[velocity]

I'm not a power user, so I'm not able to test the new theme, but the avatars on the old theme (Fanrestore theme auto) do look quite out of place.

[Feallan]

I'm not a power user, so I'm not able to test the new theme, but the avatars on the old theme (Fanrestore theme auto) do look quite out of place.

I'm afraid you're right, I disabled it for now until I can figure out a way to better integrate it. Disabling the avatars also messes up the new UI a bit, because you can't use the plugin for just one theme... There are always problems lol