• We’re currently investigating an issue related to the forum theme and styling that is impacting page layout and visual formatting. The problem has been identified, and we are actively working on a resolution. There is no impact to user data or functionality, this is strictly a front-end display issue. We’ll post an update once the fix has been deployed. Thanks for your patience while we get this sorted.

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New technical thing, in the emoji bar there are two subheaders for emoji food and only one has anything in it.
Edit; Oops, didn't see any of page 3. My bad.
 
I'm ok with this. The dark theme is nice, it works well on mobiles, hiding the side bars and ctr+ing a few notches works nicely on my PC. I'm not massivly keen on the "cards" layout (the way posts are in their own boxes in threads) but tats a minor thing I guess.

I thought I was going to hate it more, I'm slightly disappointed at my lack of outrage! 😛

Ha! Smilies still suck majorly! Its an outrage! Fix the smilies! 😉
 
Carson Dyle said:
I'd like to suggest losing the ability for users to Delete their posts. Potential to cause issues, IMO. As long as someone can Edit a post for a reasonable amount of time, or indefinitely, it's unnecessary.
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yep. there is no need for user to delete posts as long as user can modify the post.
 
DigDog said:
I am not a lawyer.

I think the free library is a case of did not know copyright i fringment was happening, but .. AT has a wee bit more exposure than some font pack.
And truly, you cant just up n use Steam's logo.

Or do, i dont care.

NEF NEF NEF NEF NEF BEF NEF (BEF)
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You're also not in software development if you think Font Awesome is just "some font pack" lol.

But that's okay 🙂
 
StefanR5R said:
I tried a search with the following parameters:
  • I entered a single keyword.
  • Limited the search to "This forum" (was Software/ Distributed Computing).
  • Limited to "Search titles only".
First try failed with a gateway timeout. Second try failed with a server error. I didn't try more, nor with other parameters.
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While this performance problem has been fixed, the next problem is that hardly anything is found. This also affects related functions such as "Your contents" from the account menu in the top bar. (Is the index still being built, meaning this problem will go away by itself eventually?)
 
StefanR5R said:
While this performance problem has been fixed, the next problem is that hardly anything is found. This also affects related functions such as "Your contents" from the account menu in the top bar. (Is the index still being built, meaning this problem will go away by itself eventually?)
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jpishgar wrote a response to this in another area, so this should be fixed once the index rebuild is done:

The search index is rebuilding, and is likely to take a few days to complete. It is substantially large, traversing millions of posts. Post history may be fuzzy until that indexing is completed.
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Thanks!!!! Now if you could only do the same on the left 🙂
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Still that minor tweak is a huge plus. Still wish they would improve the font (I hate to do it in the browser since that would impact all websites) and a few other minor issue.

WelshBloke said:
For people complaining about white space on the right, if you hit the three blue dots next to the reply box it collapses the right side bar.

If you hit the three white bars next to the Anandtech logo in the top left it collapses the left side bar.
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I can't stand the Anandtech style's font, it's way to thin and hurting my eyes!

So I went to Goolgle Chrome Play Store to download Stylebot extension.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/stylebot/oiaejidbmkiecgbjeifoejpgmdaleoha?hl=en

Visit forums.anandtech.com and open an existing thread.

Click CSS button for the extension, then Open Stylebot, move mouse around the thread posts/replies area and a green box will appear around the text.

Click the text so you can change text font on the Stylebot options window.

Change Font family to Helvetica or whatever font youe like, font size to 16 if you want. It will automatically save the settings for the site.

The text becomes much more readable!
 
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Is it possible to disable the floating icons for creating new threads and scroll to top/bottom? I have no use for any of them and they just take up screen space.
 
Is it just me, or does the default font border on unreadable in a desktop browser? Why would you pick a condensed font??? I have a fairly high-DPI display and the text is still all jumbled together. I also agree with the comments about odd link color choices and how unread threads vs. read threads have their styles flipped.

Worst of all, it seems like Tapatalk is broken now (unable to login using my favorite forum reader app.) I think 98% of my usage here is thru Tapatalk...so...I guess that means goodbye for now.
 
With the AnandTech styles, something missing from the WHATS NEW and NEW POSTS pages is the forum in which the posts were made. This is critical information to make those pages useful.

This shows the New Posts page as it appeared in the previous version (a little doctored by my own CSS) :

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Mr.IncrediblyBored said:
No, on mobile I'm talking about a large orange circle with pencil icon on the bottom right that floats as you scroll. It's a shortcut for creating a new thread which is an annoyance if you never create threads.
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Yeah on mobile they’re a little in the way honestly. iPhone 6s here so I guess I don’t have the new big screens but it feels a little cramped. I like that they fade easy though. Maybe if we have to have a create thread option let it be above the scroll up down options so they fit in the corner better? Not sure how that would look but it’s my only idea.
 
My new CSS Theme is coming along nicely.

BTW, what's up with tags? I can add / edit my own into topics. Do other people see them, or is it purely a personal feature?
 
On the font problem, one easy way to improve readability would be to go from the current Roboto Light (font-weight: 300; ) to Roboto Regular (font-weight: 400; ) - it's not a radical change in overall word/paragraph size but it does improve readability especially in Chrome. In Firefox either font weights work since anti-aliasing is more crisp, while Edge also favors 400 over 300 as well.

Also, on the Dark Theme, you might want to consider moving from a pure white font in posts (#fff) to a very light gray (#eee or anything between this and #fff). Pure white text on dark surface tends to be more tiresome to read than pure black on light surface, so in order to make the most of a dark theme in terms of eye strain one can slightly adjust font brightness as well.
 
Just to confirm, since I previously reported that I didn't have "Edit" and "Report" action links — they are now present.

Like other's here I also note that the more readable "Default" style is now gone, forcing me to use the AnandTech style with the thin less-readable font ("Roboto Light" according to @coercitiv, who recommends using a thicker variant, with which I agree).

Here is how the current thin font looks on my screen:

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Vattila said:
Like other's here I also note that the more readable "Default" style is now gone, forcing me to use the AnandTech style with the thin less-readable font ("Roboto Light" according to @coercitiv, who recommends using a thicker variant, with which I agree).

Here is how the current thin font looks on my screen:

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I don't have a lower ppi monitor at my current location, but here's a screenshot of your post on a 1440p monitor in Edge, together with a simulation for the slightly thicker font weight:

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PS: I tried emulating your anti-aliasing artifacts using a custom 1920x1200 resolution w/o scaling, but could not reproduce, we may also have different anti-aliasing or font scaling settings.
 
coercitiv said:
here's a screenshot of your post on a 1440p monitor in Edge, together with a simulation for the slightly thicker font weight:
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Thank you very much. The current font looks much better on your screen. However, the contrast and readability improves dramatically with your suggested thicker variant. This get my vote!
 
Screenshot of post at 4k with 200% scaling.
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Looks nice with no technical issues, but it's a bit small. It looks so crisp I'm not sure of a great way to get the best of both worlds. I'm sure it would look terrible on my 1080p desktop though so maybe it needs to be thicker. For reference, here it is in dark mode.
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I agree maybe not pure white for the text. This next part won't be easy to see for you all on light theme but it'll be in light grey for those of us in dark mode.

How's this look? Should be pretty nice, hopefully easier on the eyes.

Maybe even slightly darker than #EEEEEE? I'm kinda a fan of this one. Difference is a little hard to see with all the other text being bright white.

This might be a bit much honestly. Looks too warm. I guess that's why the forum doesn't go for #DDDDDD.

Must be near impossible to design a nice dark theme that also works with all the night time color apps out there. Enabling nightlight on my laptop makes this look kinda weird.
 
The font is not the whole issue in terms of readability. It is FONT + BACKGROUND that impacts readability just as well. A normal weight font can still be hard to read if it is dark on a dark background. Same with light color text on a light background. The dark theme forum pages that list threads is still jarring to the senses. Blue thread titles on dark background is not very readable and annoying to me. However, the thread posts with white text is readable and fine against the dark background.

With the light theme, its the opposite. The blue thread titles on white background is perfectly readable to me, but click on a thread and see light grey text on a white background difficult to read or follow. While slight improvement to the orange, the overall readability of the forum still not addressed properly imo. See opinions polled here:

https://forums.anandtech.com/threads/do-you-like-the-new-forum-style.2556705/
 
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