Love the Forum Features

KrunchTime · 2015-09-29 08:01:43

Two things I've noticed in my short time using the forums:

01) You are told how many seconds before you can post again instead of just being told you can't post more than once within a 60 second period.

02) Ability to change forum GUI.

Very, very nice. Hats off to whoever worked on getting the forums up and running.

20151001-01 edit: Just noticed the list of moderators for each forum. Nice touch!

Last edited by KrunchTime (2015-10-02 02:41:45)

Narmo · 2015-09-29 12:47:25

Yep but we have also a green theme *.* Love green things

nore · 2015-09-29 12:50:45

And there are contrasted themes too.. if you can see, where to choose them. 8) Air2 is my favourite.

nore · 2015-09-29 13:26:29

Defaults are often practical, no-nonsense design. Hipsters can squint with their light-gray-on-bright-white if they like.

hhh · 2015-09-29 16:39:20

I am also loving the new forum software, it's fantastic. So much faster, I'm finding the Earth theme ultra-calming, and the preview button takes you to the preview!

Sector11 · 2015-09-29 17:08:22

I'm using Cobalt - I like the blue.

pingu · 2015-09-29 17:49:29

the cobalt is just what I have int the arch forum too

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redcollective · 2015-09-29 23:02:38

I couldn't help but revert to the crunchbang forum theme.

Red

photonucleon · 2015-09-29 23:17:22

I'm sticking with the Hydrogen theme.

I'm such a rebel.

lowrider · 2015-09-29 23:22:24

redcollective wrote:

I couldn't help but revert to the crunchbang forum theme.
Red

yes, me too

ututo · 2015-09-30 00:42:46

lowrider wrote:

redcollective wrote:
I couldn't help but revert to the crunchbang forum theme.
Red
yes, me too

I think I'll follow you

...naaahh

I'm sticking with the Hydrogen theme too! Loving it!

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-09-30 07:02:03

photonucleon wrote:

I'm sticking with the Hydrogen theme.

+1

It's fresh.

redcollective · 2015-09-30 11:22:37

Just putting in a pitch here for the CB theme being the default in the bunsen forums (not suggesting for a moment that you take away any of the lovely themes a user could choose to switch too btw):

Continuity and familiarity: having the CB theme as default in the bunsen forums would provide comforting reassurance for folk coming from the old crunchbang forums that they'd entered a place rooted in the history, philosophy and espirit de corps of Crunchbang.

There ends my pitch - short and sweet.

red

Zill · 2015-09-30 11:49:03

hhh wrote:

I am also loving the new forum software, it's fantastic. So much faster, I'm finding the Earth theme ultra-calming, and the preview button takes you to the preview!

Maybe this is just me being daft but what preview button? On my Profile>Display page I can only see a "Submit" button.

Sector11 · 2015-09-30 11:55:37

redcollective wrote:

Continuity and familiarity: having the CB theme as default in the bunsen forums would provide comforting reassurance for folk coming from the old crunchbang forums that they'd entered a place rooted in the history, philosophy and espirit de corps of Crunchbang.

That makes for a very strong argument. And I understand the logic. There is another train of thought though.

All of the regular #! users know about BunsenLabs. So these people already know that they have "entered a place rooted in the history, philosophy and espirit de corps of Crunchbang".

BunsenLabs must learn to stand on it's own merit, grow, change and look ahead, not back. corenominal gave us a template that stemmed from #! rooted in Ubuntu, then Debian and each release brought changes, and a fury of tweaking by the users themselves. Some just superficial changes they can see on the monitor, others deeply rooted changes to the system itself.

In the near future, we will have new users that have never experienced #!. They will think of BunsenLabs in the way I originally though of #!.

YEA! This is for me!

Or I should say, that's what I like to think.

MAC the Bloody · 2015-09-30 12:14:26

I have to go along with what redcollective said about the forum theme. (even though it's easy enough to change)

I understand "BunsenLabs must learn to stand on it's own merit" and it will, but honouring it's roots in #! with the #! theme as default would not take anything away from that.

Food for thought.

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redcollective · 2015-09-30 12:22:19

Sector11 wrote:

BunsenLabs must learn to stand on it's own merit, grow, change and look ahead, not back.

Yes, very true - and another compelling argument well said.

hhh · 2015-09-30 12:50:46

redcollective wrote:

Just putting in a pitch here for the CB theme being the default in the bunsen forums

In terms of finding out that this forum has multiple themes, this isn't a great idea. You come here from the #! forums, "Agg! Bright!", you search for or ask about the preference.

phle · 2015-09-30 21:05:36

hhh wrote:

In terms of finding out that this forum has multiple themes, this isn't a great idea. You come here from the #! forums, "Agg! Bright!", you search for or ask about the preference.

Also, the BunsenLabs Forums not per default being a more-or-less exact copy of the CrunchBang Forums is a neat reminder that it's not a CrunchBang copy - but rather a CrunchBang successor based on the ideas of tinkering-happy #! Forums members.

(Btw, did I tell you that I like the tint2 & Conky Choosers? They're great for experimenting! )

Sector11 · 2015-09-30 22:23:50

phle wrote:

(Btw, did I tell you that I like the tint2 & Conky Choosers? They're great for experimenting! )

You can thank damo for those.

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