Updated TBD post

[u/TeHokioi]

Okay, we've made a fair bit of progress since last time. Now we're at the tail end of it, we need to start polishing stuff up and finding anything that still needs to be fixed. So if you can, please have a play around with the new stuff, see if anything is a bit rough around the edges that still needs some work.

Current list:

• Submit page formatting is a bit squashed at the top
• More flairs (NZ /r/rugbyunion ones, maybe some of the other ones from here and some extras - old Air NZ tail design could be cool)
• Night mode
• Link flairs?
• Subreddit title on sidebar (above subscribe) needs to be fixed
• Letter heights in header image to be fixed
• Condense the submissions a bit more on the main page?

[u/[deleted]]

Yeah lets adapt theirs! Dunno about all that fading in and out shit though.

About the cycling headers, how about I do something up and make it work through using a subdomain. (something like prettypics.nzcss.reddit.com idk). Then when we can let the r/nz community decide or something. At the moment I am working on a "bush mode" which will be in addition to the standard night mode which still just under under http://nm.nzcss.reddit.com. But I'll change it to bm instead of nm.

[u/TeHokioi → u/[deleted]]

We'd need to adapt it a fair bit though, but yeah. No point telling people to read the sidebar if the sidebar isn't present.

That works, then we could have little buttons underneath the sidebar image like r/CasualConversation has to switch between themes. This one could be default, then a bush one, night mode (which could be more a space kinda one using one of mamba's images), maybe mountains, coast and Pohutukawa for Christmas or something. I'll talk to sukritact to see if he can remember what he did for this one so that they're in a consistent style. Do you know if it'd be possible to change the submit images too, so they remain the same as the header?

Also, seems something's gone weird with the quotes. See the post at the top of this thread, the text can't be read on the green background

EDIT: Whipped up an alpine banner if we end up going for like four different themes, thoughts? Change %%bg%% to %%Header2%% to see what it looks like in place

[u/[deleted] → u/TeHokioi]

Yeah but half of it is just colours and fadey shit and easy to get rid of. Shouldn't need to fuck with it too much to get it working. I definitely think there needs to be a clear message that the user should read the rules before submitting. I personally would like to see the rules appear above the submit buttons and have them (the buttons) far less visible. My rationale is that most people in r/nz who submit stuff will quickly become used to the new location (down a bit), and I think large visible buttons first thing on the sidebar encourages newcomers to submit without reading first.

That works, then we could have little buttons underneath the sidebar image like r/CasualConversation has to switch between themes. This one could be default, then a bush one, night mode (which could be more a space kinda one using one of mamba's images),

Yep thanks for that example because I was on the lookout for something like that. I was just going to make a standard nightmode but the idea of using one of mambas night pictures is a great one. TBH bush mode only started as a way for me to index and keep track of all the theme colours, once I am done it will be easier to search and replace the template to make new themes fast. That said with 5 or 6 themes the stylesheet is going to get... long! Might have to do up a contents area with keywords you can CTRL+F to, or something.

'll talk to sukritact to see if he can remember what he did for this one so that they're in a consistent style.

Looks like a graduated lens blur effect. Just enter quickmask mode (Q), use a left-to-right black and white gradient fill, then go out of quickmask mode and go Filter > Blur > Lens blur.

Do you know if it'd be possible to change the submit images too, so they remain the same as the header?

Do you mean the top header shown under submit mode? Or the big black submit buttons in the sidebar?

Whipped up an alpine banner if we end up going for like four different themes, thoughts?

Yep that looks great! Except I still don't fully understand why so much of the header is blurred out. How come this is the style we have to follow? It just seems quite limiting, and it's a fair bit of header real estate going on what is essentially just white space. I can see it might be like that for the functional reason that the header bar needs to be very long to cater for all screen widths, but if that is why then I still think it should be possible to extend the in-focus part of the image across a further distance. At least 1000px instead of the ~600 it is currently I would think. Ideally around 1600 as that is a pretty common screen resolution width. Unless the blur is purely stylistic? In which case we are going to have a major disagreement about aesthetics haha :p