Hey Desslok you back! There was some goit named Kabong using your pic a few pages back but I showed him, won't be having any trouble with that sort any more....

Hey, why are you calling Kabong Desslok? The real Desslok won't like that one bit. Not one bit!

9 minutes ago, Stan Fresh said:

Hey, why are you calling Kabong Desslok? The real Desslok won't like that one bit. Not one bit!

Wait wait wait... THATS Kabong? Then who did I.... oh boy....

Well, looks like the secret is out. . . .

(subtitle: Mild Mannered Reporter Clark Kent removing his shirt and tie)

Well, it only took 22 hours and half a dozen emails, but I'm back from oblivion.

I think.

Seems like just a few hiccups in what was likely a major IT project for their team, I say good work. There's always something in a migration; if computer worked the way we expected I'd be out of a job!

Looks like we can see who likes again.

On 24/01/2017 at 4:20 PM, Desslok said:

The up side is now it looks like we can upload our own avatars.

How? I just have a list of preset ones like before.

Edit: Although they are all very slightly larger, so by re-selecting my same avatar it stops being blurry.

For a very small window, it looks like there was an option to upload a file of our own choosing. That option seems to have gone away now.

More important than uploading custom avatars is if they would enable the changing of themes, or at least the ability to change the forum background color. I'd love to be able to give my eyes some relief by switching to text on a grey background instead of glaring white.

Not being snarky here but if you just lower the brightness of your screen does that fix it?

2 hours ago, Desslok said:

For a very small window, it looks like there was an option to upload a file of our own choosing. That option seems to have gone away now.

It was there in the initial asmodee.net login interface that came up during the early part of the changeover yesterday.

The same interface that I used to log in (and change my profile pic, not knowing that wouldn't carry over), then come here to the FFG forums...where I was prompted to log in. Again? :-/

16 minutes ago, Richardbuxton said:

Not being snarky here but if you just lower the brightness of your screen does that fix it?

No, because then everything else I look at on the screen becomes harder to see. Also, reducing the brightness lowers overall contrast, which also makes reading the FFG forums harder.

Note to all web designers -- CLEAR, SHARP CONTRAST IS NOT YOUR ENEMY.

Well defined borders are not your enemies.

Colors other than shades of grey and shades of blue are not your enemies.

6 minutes ago, MaxKilljoy said:

Note to all web designers -- CLEAR, SHARP CONTRAST IS NOT YOUR ENEMY.

Well defined borders are not your enemies.

Colors other than shades of grey and shades of blue are not your enemies.

Preach it, brutha!

3 hours ago, ShadoWarrior said:

More important than uploading custom avatars is if they would enable the changing of themes, or at least the ability to change the forum background color. I'd love to be able to give my eyes some relief by switching to text on a grey background instead of glaring white.

22 minutes ago, ShadoWarrior said:

No, because then everything else I look at on the screen becomes harder to see. Also, reducing the brightness lowers overall contrast, which also makes reading the FFG forums harder.

Surely text on a grey background is also lowering the contrast? I imagine this is a problem for you on all sorts of websites and text files, since black text on white is the standard. There is software available, primarily aimed at people with dyslexia (like me) and other issues that will apply virtual coloured overlays onto your screen to make it easier to read. But... anything that changes it away from pure black on pure white is going to be lowering the contrast.

My text editor allows me to set the background color. A light shade of gray removes glare while maintaining acceptable contrast. Bear in mind that very few laptops have non-glare (non-shiny) screens. While most decent desktop flatscreens do have non-glare surfaces.

I just solved the problem. I installed a Firefox add-on that allows me to adjust page colors on a website by website basis. So I tweaked the HSL (luminosity) setting for these forums a smidgen, just enough to kill the glare without visibly affecting contrast.

Well, we could sit here complaining about the high contrast theme. . . . or we could ask 'em and find out what's up. I'll post the reply here when (if) they get around to responding.

I really hate the new software. Why is it that every time a site upgrades, it always involves the loss of previous options?

2 hours ago, Squirrelsan said:

Surely text on a grey background is also lowering the contrast? I imagine this is a problem for you on all sorts of websites and text files, since black text on white is the standard. There is software available, primarily aimed at people with dyslexia (like me) and other issues that will apply virtual coloured overlays onto your screen to make it easier to read. But... anything that changes it away from pure black on pure white is going to be lowering the contrast.

1) Clean, clear, sharp contrast is not exactly the same as maximum contrast.

2) It's not just about the text, the "50 shades of white" borderless layout is also a major issue, largely because it offers so little contrast or delineation.

8 hours ago, MaxKilljoy said:

1) Clean, clear, sharp contrast is not exactly the same as maximum contrast.

2) It's not just about the text, the "50 shades of white" borderless layout is also a major issue, largely because it offers so little contrast or delineation.

1) No indeed, the general accessibility guidelines for websites suggest anything about 4.5:1 is fine. Nevertheless, you cannot move away from black/white without lowering the contrast because that's what contrast means. Which is not to say I think you need maximum contrast. But the poster did specifically say he didn't want to lower the contrast.

2) Ok. I don't disagree.

Look, I was just trying to help a fellow forum-goer who apparently struggles reading black text on white, something I know a bit about and wanted to help with. I don't want to get into a flame war about the definition of contrast or how nice/nasty the forum looks now. As it is he has solved his problem with a Firefox add-on, a smart move, so the point is moot.

So about getting our themes back:

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I follow up your request, it's not in our hand directly but I asked. I'll keep you inform.

So, sounds like no current plans, but maybe?

2 hours ago, Desslok said:

So about getting our themes back:

So, sounds like no current plans, but maybe?

Well, if they can't load the old themes, maybe they can add some additional ones based in the current software?

9 hours ago, Desslok said:

So about getting our themes back:

So, sounds like no current plans, but maybe?

how on earth do you get instant responses yet i wait weeks and get nothing?

My guess? It's the near 10,000 likes. That buys a bird a fair amount attention.

Either that or they just like that he always dresses so fancy. One or the other .