Which forum style do you use?

[Xinos]

I am curious about this for very secret reasons.

[poninja]

Retro purple :D

[McMaster]

Forum Default.

The others look a bit difficult to me.

[thomasp]

Retro purple - got to be done the classic way :D

So much nicer and "less bright" than the vBulletin standard. Sel did a great job emulating it from APJs original vB2 design.

[FutureWorm]

rp fluid is the only way to go

[thomasp]

And you have me to thank for the fluid skins - I kept bugging Sel about how space inefficient the fixed skin was and he gave in and made a fluid one :p

[Cyclaws]

I use the Retro Purple Fixed skin.

[Xinos]

I don't like either fixed versions. I can't stand the whole modern thing about making your site fit on a thin cell in the middle of the page. Mah forum goes as wide as my screen lets it!
Having it centered also increases the rate at which you have to scroll since it forces texts to brake line much more often.

[MtlAngelus]

Retro Purple Fixed.
I don't like it when it's as wide as my screen, looks too large. I like it centered in the screen, like a nice, small book. :)

[pilot62]

Retro purple fixed ftw!

[Mr.cosmico]

Retro Purple Fixed. Definately.

[GrimOswald]

Team17 Fluid for me. I find Retro Purple to be ugly as sin and Fixed on this style makes the screen wider.

[Pigbuster]

I find Retro Purple to be ugly as sin
U R DED 2 ME :mad:

[Kelster23]

Team 17 Fluid is what I have.

[Nugget]

Team17 Fluid for me. I find Retro Purple to be ugly as sin and Fixed on this style makes the screen wider.

Completely agree. I also use Team 17 Fluid because it's the most minimalistic and easiest to read. The purple skins are absolutely hideous. I can't believe why you people would use it. :p

[MtlAngelus]

Hideous as YOUR FACE? :mad:


:p

[Pigbuster]

Completely agree. I also use Team 17 Fluid because it's the most minimalistic and easiest to read. The purple skins are absolutely hideous. I can't believe why you people would use it. :p
Them's fightin' words, son.

TO WAR. :mad:

[Cisken1]

RP fluid FTW, period!

[Plasma]

Team17 fluid. I don't like the Retro Purple because it hurts my eyes. It's about as bad as Nugget's face!

[pilot62]

Plasma, what are you talking about? The T17 skin is a hell of a lot brighter than the much darker blues and purples of the RP skin. How do dark colours make your eyes hurt more than bright ones?

For the record, one of the reasons I like RP is because it's much kinder to the eyes.

[Nugget]

For the record, one of the reasons I like RP is because it's much kinder to the eyes.

You people must all suffer from serious, mental illnesses. I bet you have a condition when you are just forced to say the opposite of what you actually mean. At least that would explain a lot of things around this forum. :p

And the record, my face is nice, thank you! :mad:

[pilot62]

You people must all suffer from serious, mental illnesses. I bet you have a condition when you are just forced to say the opposite of what you actually mean. At least that would explain a lot of things around this forum. :p

And the record, my face is nice, thank you! :mad:

No I don't.

Or, does that mean I do? ;)

[SupSuper]

Retro Purple Fluid. Fixed looks tiny on my screen, and I hate vB3's icon style.

[SuperBlob]

Retro Purple Fixed. I don't like having to move my eyes too much :(

[Xinos]

Plasma, what are you talking about? The T17 skin is a hell of a lot brighter than the much darker blues and purples of the RP skin. How do dark colours make your eyes hurt more than bright ones?

For the record, one of the reasons I like RP is because it's much kinder to the eyes.

His eyes are simply more sensitive to esthetics than light. :rolleyes:

[pieman280]

I think everyone loves Retro Purple Fluid because it's cool:cool:

[yauhui]

retro purple isn;t cool, it's WEIRD! its OLD... it doesnt suit its name. "Purple" ...

[Zero72]

...You're familiar with the word "retro," yes?

If I could hug Retro Purple, I would. It's like the good old days, except a lot dumber.

...I think. I was pretty dumb myself.

[Muzer]

Retro purple fluid.

Does anyone actually miss the grey style in between the original purple and the vBulletin default? (Yes, the vB default came before the retro style.)
This (http://web.archive.org/web/20040510125000/http://forum.team17.co.uk/) is from around the time when I joined. Ahh, nostalgia. Incidently, I don't remember the ugly green bar at the top, although I do remember the blue one from the winter.


BTW, I don't actually like the style, just wonderin' if anyone else did.

EDIT: On a vaguely related note, this (http://web.archive.org/web/20010801142519/http://forum.team17.co.uk/) is the earliest archive of the site, with just one broken image, amazingly (archive.org is infamously known, at least to me, for poorly archiving images; in all later archive up until mid-'02 the T17 logo is broken). The new RP stle looks so similar to this, if the T17 logo and post icons were the same, I would swear that it looked like someone had hacked the forum, deleted the posts except a few, and some of the forums, but kept the style.

[pieman280]

retro purple isn;t cool, it's WEIRD! its OLD... it doesnt suit its name. "Purple" ...

there's more blue then purple and I like blue

[*Splinter*]

I didnt you COULD change style so...

DEFAULT FTW! :rolleyes:

[Muzer]

I didnt you COULD change style so...

Spot the missing word!
Also spot the missing apostrophe!

[Xinos]

I didnt you COULD change style so...

DEFAULT FTW! :rolleyes:

It's not like you're missing anything ;)

[*Splinter*]

It's not like you're missing anything ;)

Badum! Tch!

[Cisken1]

Retro purple fluid.

Does anyone actually miss the grey style in between the original purple and the vBulletin default? (Yes, the vB default came before the retro style.)
This (http://web.archive.org/web/20040510125000/http://forum.team17.co.uk/) is from around the time when I joined. Ahh, nostalgia. Incidently, I don't remember the ugly green bar at the top, although I do remember the blue one from the winter.


Yes! I remember that style too! I joined the forum in that style *wipes away a tear* where are the times...

[thomasp]

I remember all the tonnes of threads we'd get four times a year asking why the bar at the top has just changed colour :D

[pilot62]

I remember disliking that style when it first came, but looking back at it it doesn't look bad at all.

[Xinos]

I remember disliking that style when it first came, but looking back at it it doesn't look bad at all.

Of course you don't think it looks bad, considering what style you are used too now.

I need to stop doing that, but you are such easy targets I can't resist ;D

[SupSuper]

I remember disliking that style when it first came, but looking back at it it doesn't look bad at all.You sure did! (http://forum.team17.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18624)

[Muzer]

Na, that's disliking the top bar. Read the rest of the thread.

[pilot62]

Damn, I was hoping no one would bring that up. (Generally, old threads where I was a poster never portray me in a good light)

Although it has to be said, I wasn't the only one.

[*Splinter*]

eww... Without the benefits of nostalgia, retro purple is pretty fugly :(

[Melon]

Retro Purple is one of the nicest forum colour schemes I've ever seen.

So I decided to vote for the default in the poll up there because I wasn't paying attention and now I look like a traitor. Ooopps.

[Xinos]

Heh, I noticed that bright text is quite visible on Retro Purple. Not on default where you have to pay attention to notice something in bright.

Which totally sucks because bright messages are supposed to be semi secret

[SomePerson]

...I think. I was pretty dumb myself.

As was I...

EDIT: On a vaguely related note, this (http://web.archive.org/web/20010801142519/http://forum.team17.co.uk/) is the earliest archive of the site, with just one broken image, amazingly (archive.org is infamously known, at least to me, for poorly archiving images; in all later archive up until mid-'02 the T17 logo is broken). The new RP stle looks so similar to this, if the T17 logo and post icons were the same, I would swear that it looked like someone had hacked the forum, deleted the posts except a few, and some of the forums, but kept the style.

Oh how I miss that menu bar at the top!...

[Shockdude]

retro purple fluid
:p

[pieman280]

Heh, I noticed that bright text is quite visible on Retro Purple. Not on default where you have to pay attention to notice something in bright.

Which totally sucks because bright messages are supposed to be semi secret

Well I can see the so called secrets very well, just PM whoever you want to share a secret with.

[Plainplane]

I use the default - Team17 Fluid.

Plainplane :)

[Zero72]

this (http://web.archive.org/web/20010801142519/http://forum.team17.co.uk/)Man, that's a good sight. :(

[Plasma]

This (http://web.archive.org/web/20040510125000/http://forum.team17.co.uk/)
Ah, I really miss that one! Good times... good, confusing times...
And cheers for capturing the announcement thread for the User Mod introduction there!

When I first joined, the forum was in the Retro Purple stage. I can still remember not liking it back then either.

[Star Worms]

Retro Purple Fluid, but I've always hated how the posts don't slot together (there's a gap in between each one). It just doesn't look right - before one of the vB updates, one post joined onto the next with alternating colours. Oh, those were the days...

[Xinos]

Hmm, was that this forum that used to put a slightly darker shade of blue as background color on every-other post?

[AndrewTaylor]

I think we did that once, yeah. That was the fashion, way back then. These days it's all about the separater bars.

[Paul.Power]

Retro Purple Fluid, taking you back to 2002 since 2005

Heh, I noticed that bright text is quite visible on Retro Purple. Not on default where you have to pay attention to notice something in bright.

Which totally sucks because bright messages are supposed to be semi secret

Bear in mind that the original job of bright was for highlighting purposes in the way that highlight is now. It was only after the switch to a white background that it lost its original function and became a "hidden message" thing.

[shadowman]

This (http://web.archive.org/web/20040510125000/http://forum.team17.co.uk/)

I remember that. Good times, those.

Cept I was a total idiot then.

[SomePerson]

I do miss our [note] tags we had way back when... Do any of you remember that?

[pilot62]

Yea, I was going to mention that too, they did the same sort of job as bright does now.

They haven't worked for years though.

[SomePerson]

Oh, but it was so much better! It was a kind of grey that make it less noticeable, and thus more of a sidenote, but it was still easy to read.

Now the bright tag stands out like crazy but is very hard to read...

Note text was also slightly smaller. We also had a [small] tag if I'm not going crazy which made text the size of note without changing the colour.


edit: Aha, http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=65526&postcount=20

[Plasma]

edit: Aha, http://forum.team17.co.uk/showpost.php?p=65526&postcount=20
Although, we can still make things ｓｌｉｇｈｔｌｙ ｓｍａｌｌｅｒ ｔｈａｎ ｎｏｒｍａｌ.

[MtlAngelus]

Although, we can still make things slightly smaller than normal.
ORLY?
http://img210.imageshack.us/img210/7024/orlywthkv5.png
Doesn't look smaller to me. Instead, it looks all spaced out and fugly.

[SupSuper]

It looks even worse with ClearType.
http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/5224/fuglyhw2.png

[Zero72]

Doesn't look any different at all on this end. :p

[MtlAngelus]

Looks even worse in IE. :p
http://img463.imageshack.us/img463/2646/worserng8.png
But it works in Firefox apparently.

[SomePerson]

Meh, my Firefox doesn't show it very well either.

http://img299.imageshack.us/img299/8554/plasmabi4.gif

(it got grainy because I saved it as a gif in Paint)

Maybe it IS a little smaller, but it looks like something that should be flushed...

[McMaster]

What are the changes in Fluid and Fixed forum styles?

Also the Retro Purple forum style sucks!!!

The worst forum style in the globe!

The Team17 Default is 10000000000x better than Retro Purple.

Also the retro Purple doesn't show you if a member is online in his/her posts.

[Plasma]

Ｓｗｅｅｔ，　ａ　ｆｏｎｔ　ｔｈａｔ　ｈａｓ　ａ　ｎａｔｕｒａｌ　ａｂｉｌｉｔｙ　ｔｏ　ｓｃｒｅｗ　 ｕｐ　ｅｖｅｒｙ　ｔｉｍｅ！

[McMaster]

Ｓｗｅｅｔ，　ａ　ｆｏｎｔ　ｔｈａｔ　ｈａｓ　ａ　ｎａｔｕｒａｌ　ａｂｉｌｉｔｙ　ｔｏ　ｓｃｒｅｗ　 ｕｐ　ｅｖｅｒｙ　ｔｉｍｅ！

In which country do we use language "ａ"?

[thomasp]

What are the changes in Fluid and Fixed forum styles?

Also the Retro Purple forum style sucks!!!

The worst forum style in the globe!

The Team17 Default is 10000000000x better than Retro Purple.

Also the retro Purple doesn't show you if a member is online in his/her posts.
You do realise T17 default is actually vBulletin default with practically no modifications - so its what almost every vB forum uses when they can't be bothered to create a skin. Plus, the buttons (New thread, edit, quote, etc) are too big and ugly on the default vB skin. I much prefer the vB2 buttons used on the retro purple skin.

And Retro Purple does show if someone is online/offline. Right next to the report button.
Offline: http://forum.team17.co.uk/images/retropurple/statusicon/user_offline.gif
Online: http://forum.team17.co.uk/images/retropurple/statusicon/user_online.gif

[SomePerson]

I agree entirely about the vb3 buttons. I hate the 3d perspective effect they tried to do. I prefer my buttons flat, thank you.

[MtlAngelus]

Sweet,　a　font　that　has　a　natural　ability　to　screw　 up　every　time!
Well, if you look at it that way, then it definitely fits you.
:p

[pieman280]

does anyone know what the fixed ones do?

[SupSuper]

The Fixed skins have a fixed width while the Fluid ones fit to the size of the browser window.

[Muzer]

Slightly offtopic, but do you remember the time when everyone put "<<<LINK" in their posts because the links just didn't show up well in the style?

[Cisken1]

Slightly offtopic, but do you remember the time when everyone put "<<<LINK" in their posts because the links just didn't show up well in the style?

Yup, that was amazingly funny at some point, can't remember WHAT point exactly

[Basti@n]

I use the default forum style. Retro Purple looks too dark to me.

And Retro Purple does show if someone is online/offline. Right next to the report button.
Offline: http://forum.team17.co.uk/images/retropurple/statusicon/user_offline.gif
Online: http://forum.team17.co.uk/images/retropurple/statusicon/user_online.gif

The default forum style also shows it.

Offline: http://forum.team17.co.uk/images/statusicon/user_offline.gif
Online: http://forum.team17.co.uk/images/statusicon/user_online.gif

[thomasp]

I use the default forum style. Retro Purple looks too dark to me.



The default forum style also shows it.

Offline: http://forum.team17.co.uk/images/statusicon/user_offline.gif
Online: http://forum.team17.co.uk/images/statusicon/user_online.gif
I know it does - I was responding to somebody's comment that RP does not show the online/offline status.

Anyway, I think the RP online/offline display is much more subtle and less "eyeball-offensive" than the vB default version.

[Basti@n]

I know it does - I was responding to somebody's comment that RP does not show the online/offline status.

Oh well... Sorry. :o


Anyway, I think the RP online/offline display is much more subtle and less "eyeball-offensive" than the vB default version.

Well. Many got used to it. ;)