So basically the original coders went ape and raped their own software design? That's actually worse to know.
This time, rather than using the
default theme, we made our own. Developers who spent about a year on it are reading this thread. You're welcome to criticize it, but you need to do so in a professional manner. I did repeatedly warn the developers that they would receive a lot of harsh words no matter what they did, but I didn't expect anyone to go so far as to say they "raped" the design.
Yes it's one click, old one used to be zero
Only on devices which lacked a touchscreen, which posed a problem given that many laptops these days have touchscreens. For those of us with multiple devices, it was a serious consistency issue: the method for viewing your alerts varied depending on which device you were using, and buying a new laptop meant that the method might change. We received complaints about it. We've now made it consistent across devices: one click, or zero if you enable push notifications.
Suggest to open poll to determine how many members want dark mode vs light mode and make it permanent once poll ends.
No, we will not be forcing one or the other. In addition to being a matter of personal preference, for some people it's an accessibility issue. For example, as I've gotten older, I've found it increasingly difficult to read dark-on-light text for extended periods of time; for other people it's the opposite. All mainstream operating systems now allow users to choose between dark and light themes, and NamePros has joined them. What we will likely do in the future is enforce a minimum contrast and adjust the color of text if it doesn't meet that threshold.
That being said, your example red text looks quite eye-catching to me on the dark theme--more so than on the light theme. It's probably just a difference between our monitors.
Another thing: ITALIC font is now so bad that many times it looks like it's joining with the next word as you can see in this sentence. This new default font is awful.
With the old style, the font face you saw depended on the device and browser you were using, which wasn't ideal. That being said, on my current device, the kerning at the boundaries between italic and non-italic text is slightly worse with the new font face:
Top is with the new theme, bottom is with the old theme.
Wouldn't this make sigs smaller? More damage to sig value.
If someone chooses to zoom out on their device, that's their prerogative, and they were able to do that on the old theme.
Thanks & Agrees however doesn't add value, however I can thank/like+agree and still burn people with downvotes 3x until it's -1, and I can dislike+disagree and still upvote 4x until it's +3.
That's manual mode. Established members now have a lot more control over the points they assign to any given piece of content. However, if you don't wish to use it, you don't have to; you can continue to use automatic mode, which behaves mostly the same way it always has.
Also after migration some Likes/Thanks/Agree disappeared at all, I must have above 11K as of now or up to 1XX more (including the disappeared)...
OR somebodies already started to decrease this stats by hitting the downarrow button many times...
That's likely just a consequence of how we're calculating impact. It's not a 1:1 match with the old algorithm.
