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Arbe
Posted on 11-08-08 02:23 PM Link | Quote | ID: 93872

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I've been looking through them a little more lately, because I get bored of the same thing quite fast, and I'm pretty sure I settled on one. I didn't make this a poll, because polls really just negate posting in favor of blind opinion, which is stupid. Also, if you don't like any of the themes, what sort of theme are you looking for?

Anyway, my favourite (right now) would be blue storm. It's .. appealing.

Kawa
Posted on 11-08-08 02:24 PM (rev. 2 of 11-08-08 02:25 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 93873


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I'm on Standard. I like it. Even so, let me try Blue Storm for a bit...

Hah, it's like a more saturated version of standard, turned 90 degrees XD

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Posted on 11-08-08 02:26 PM Link | Quote | ID: 93874

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I know! It's everything I thought standard was missing. It's got more of a futuristic edge. Also, guys, on the other end of the spectrum, you could also give the theme you dislike the most. Mine? Grape Vineyard.

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Standard: Super awesome, cool colors, faded, easy on the eyes, technically perfect
Alternate: Too hard
Everything by KP: Just a bit too bright... Best of the bunch is probably Blue Storm, that's pretty tolerable even if it is designed just like a more bad Standard.
Fish: Distracting
Minus World: Very nice, actually. My only complaint is that table borders are a bit bright, so it's not quite Standard level.
Acid: Clearly not meant to be used by administrators. Those dealies on the bars cover up Edit User. I'm not okay with that. (Also, they're ugly.) And it screws with the formatting for lots of layouts.
Daily Cycle: Usually not too bad. But, it's honestly really bland.
Fragmentation: Well-concieved. I like this one, too. It's very nearly as good as Standard, but some of the concepts are just... Not as calm. Also, near as I can tell, there's no difference between cold water and laggy cold water.
Desolation: It would be the one I use if it wasn't incredibly laggy.

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Standard: Somewhat too bright, to the point of lacking contrast between the table header pieces and the white text on them. Somehow bland, too, but it might be because I never liked that shade of blue.
Alternate: Overloaded, too heavy textures, hard on the eyes.
KP9k's schemes: Miner's Lament is quite good, followed by Blue Storm (a tad too oversaturated).
Acid: Not bad-looking, but not feeling like an Acmlmboard scheme at all. Plus the smaller font setting interacts with my own option to somewhat downscale the fonts (68, so as to undo the boardwide font enlarging Xk pulled at some point) to make some pieces of text too small.
Daily Cycle: Nostalgic and clean, sure, but having the whole board rendered in Arial just doesn't feel good anymore...
Fragmentation: My personal favourite. Dark hues of blue that contrast to text nicely, sufficiently subtle but still interesting textures.
Desolation: Not bad, but I find the transparency of the table cell backgrounds to be a bit too high.

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Posted on 11-08-08 04:35 PM Link | Quote | ID: 93877


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Standard: Cool colors, which are nice; but the scanlines (interlace, whatever they are) are too thick and the color isn't my favorite.

Alternate: A different twist to Standard. It has a number of textures that seem to come together nicely, but it is indeed harder on the eyes.

Fish: A good fad theme. I wouldn't recommend it for anything else due to the fact that trying to read posts on it makes you want to stick a fish up someone's nose.

Acid: It's a well done theme, but like Stark said, it's not being used because of the green horizontal line graphic covering up column descriptions. Other than that it's a nice dark futuristic theme.

Minus World: It's a little too dark for me, and also a little too purple. I agree with Stark here too on the fact that the lines are a bit bright and I found it to be hard on the eyes.

Fragmentation: Not bad at all. I'm considering this as my next theme for a while. It's easy on the eyes, not dull at all. Very appealing.

Desolation: Nice idea here, however its main usability here is killed by the choppy/laggy scrolling.

As for my themes, I use Blue Storm and Miner's Lament the most. There was supposed to be a green one, much more mild and desaturated, but since they didn't get uploaded right, I just tossed it aside. Most of mine are meant to be bright because there seemed to be a lack of bright themes prior. I wanted to cater to everyone's favorite color (whoever the hell is using Arabian Gold, please post and tell me WHY, your data might be interesting to scientists) and give a larger choice to the userbase.

I've got another one I haven't released yet, let me know if you want it. I call it "Nostalgia".

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Posted by KP9000
I've got another one I haven't released yet, let me know if you want it. I call it "Nostalgia".

As far as I am concerned, I do.

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Sukasa
Posted on 11-08-08 06:05 PM (rev. 2 of 11-08-08 07:38 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 93884


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I like Minus World myself I guess I just like the design, heh. I don't like Standard too much, I put put my finger on it, but I find it kinda ugly

EDIT: Scratch that, I like Nostalgia better.

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Posted on 11-08-08 08:25 PM Link | Quote | ID: 93897


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Nostalgia is awesome.

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Posted on 11-08-08 08:54 PM Link | Quote | ID: 93902


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Arabian Gold. It's totally Arabian Gold.

Mine is set to fragmentation. It's the only theme I've ever really taken to besides Standard.

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Posted on 11-08-08 11:17 PM Link | Quote | ID: 93912


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I was using fragmentation for ages, but I like the simplicity of daily cycle

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Posted on 11-08-08 11:18 PM Link | Quote | ID: 93913


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It used to be Desolation, but now....

Nostalgia. Nothing else is as good.

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Posted on 11-08-08 11:20 PM (rev. 2 of 11-08-08 11:24 PM) Link | Quote | ID: 93914


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I just set it to Nostalgia for evaluation. By itself, it looks good. Subtle shading and all, fits in with the logo...

There's just one problem: being darker than Default, a lot of post layouts are suddenly brighter. MY EYES!!

Edit: Okay, that's it. Eval over. Unless it somehow includes a mandatory Jedi Helmet or something.

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Posted on 12-03-08 07:51 AM Link | Quote | ID: 95475

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Mine's been fish for a while now, what's everyone think about Diet board2?

Kawa
Posted on 12-03-08 08:04 PM Link | Quote | ID: 95506


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Unnervingly bright, but it works out nicely.

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Posted on 12-03-08 09:22 PM Link | Quote | ID: 95518


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Nostalgia here. I used to use Daily Cycle but I switched.

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Posted on 12-03-08 10:05 PM Link | Quote | ID: 95525

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I tried out some themes other than standard, and I wasn't really impressed. Half of them were oversaturated. Seriously KP900, is something wrong with your monitor?

Sukasa
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Still on Nostalgia here; I still like it.

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