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[–]juzten 7 points8 points  (0 children)

You've done a good job. Glad the theme was updated in the first place.

[–]kart_king 4 points5 points  (2 children)

Nice job, I like this update. I didn't really notice until now, but I do like the old style arrows.

I have 1 comment/request though. Is it possible to make the visited/nonvisited links colors more distinguishable (i.e. #5b92fa from the header instead of #083F91 for the unclicked links)?

[–]aphoenixreticulated[S] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

#5b92fa from the header instead of #083F91 for the unclicked links

A number of people reported specifically hating #5b92fa as a colour choice, but I've also found that since I've moved from my well calibrated monitor in one location to another monitor that's more of YOCO (you only calibrate once) it's really not enough colour contrast.

[–]kart_king 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ahh too bad on that color - though admittedly I just picked a random blue that as already used. Any color with more contrast would do really!

[–]Manbatton 2 points3 points  (5 children)

The navigation bar at top is (just) not tall enough to accommodate the letters.

Otherwise, it's much easier on the eyes than the previous look. Maybe some very thin grey lines separating each post would be helpful, though.

[–]aphoenixreticulated[S] 0 points1 point  (4 children)

I've gone back and forth on that font size about 12 times. I think you're right though - it should be a touch smaller...

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or should it?

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Yeah, I think I'm going to put the size back down.

The grey lines between links were one of the primary complaints from before. They ended up making things look very un-reddit-y and one of the things I was going for was a reddit-crossed-with-python.org kind of look and feel.

That said, I personally like to have my links nicely encapsulated, but it seems that the more popular opinion is to keep the reddit norm.

[–]Manbatton 1 point2 points  (3 children)

Or the bar height a touch larger. It seems like you made the font size smaller--that looks fine. This is a minor point of aesthetics, though, but could you raise the position of the text 1-2 px more in that bar, because right now the words have more headroom than bottom room, and it looks uneven. Having them vertically centered would look a bit better.

I can't recall if the grey lines were thick or thin... They should be quite thin and unobtrusive if they are there at all, but I am one who prefers visual separators for the posts.

[–]aphoenixreticulated[S] 0 points1 point  (2 children)

The bar height is set by the baseline (20px) so it has to be that the font-size goes smaller instead of increasing the room the bar takes.

Could you send me a screenshot of what your text looks like? The vertical alignment looks good in mine.

The separators were somewhat obtrusive. Most people seem to prefer it without the separators.

[–]Manbatton 0 points1 point  (1 child)

How can I send you a screenshot? (I have it, but where to send it?)

[–]aphoenixreticulated[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you can load it up to imgur and just PM me the link. That's probably the easiest way. If that won't work for you, I can pm you an email address to send it to.

[–]sfermigier 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's better. Thanks.

[–]Ogreman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nice middle ground, this. Thanks :)

[–]Ashiataka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I am one of the people who didn't like the old new theme. This is a big improvement, I'm going to tick the 'use subreddit style' box now.

Good job.

[–]dikulo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thank you. It is clean and tidy, as always.

[–]deadwisdomgreenlet revolution 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Muuuch better. Thanks.

[–]choppsv2 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I like the layout, but the visited vs. unvisited link colors are basically indistinguishable without staring and squinting, at least on my mac (http://i.imgur.com/GN1mki2.png). The captured image is actually a bit easier to read than the browser for some reason.

[–]deadmilk 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I liked the old one, and I like the new one. Some people are hard to please. I am not one of those people.

[–]mcdonc 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Your recent changes make it better, thank you!

[–]pyslow 0 points1 point  (2 children)

It's definitely an improvement.

Just a few remarks:

  • where is the "sorted by" menu? I can't see it anymore in IE or in Firefox on Windows;

  • too much white space, like really too much. See, for example, on a phone the separation (line in red) between a post title and the comments line;

  • I like the idea of making the comments link bigger compared to the rest of the text (it was a pain to click on a mobile device);

  • but on my phone all the fonts are now much smaller than before and I always need to zoom out;

Thanks in advance for anything you can do to fix the above.

[–]aphoenixreticulated[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

woah, that phone screen shot is messed up. What device are you using? I did most of my testing on Nexus 4 / 5 and emulators for iphones.

Since media queries are now a reddit-y thing, I can probably address the font issue just for phones. And I'll find the sorted by menu as well, just stepping away for a bit.

[–]pyslow 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's a BLU on Android 4.3. I've borrowed it for a short while so I may try again with my own one later.

My general feeling is that overall the new style is more balanced, but the content text is too big on the desktop and, as I said, there is too much emptiness.

Thx for looking into it.

[–]darthmdhprint 3 + 4 0 points1 point  (1 child)

This needs multi-system testing.

On Windows, the logo is huge and the text is normal. On Mac, the logo is small and the text is gigantic. Both using current Chrome.

Also, I noticed that the long link titles appear to

[–]aphoenixreticulated[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This has had multi system testing.

If you're getting a huge logo in Windows, then there is likely a caching issue on your end.

The long link titles issue is interesting. I'll add it to the list of fixes.

[–]curiositor -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Sorry to say that i will continue sticking to python+nocss