[Moooookie]

Oooo that's an interesting concept. I do usually prefer dark themes over light, but HF isn't really a "light" theme right now either. I'm not quite sure just how much different a dark theme would make or quite frankly if it would even work well on here. Idk, hard to explain. Would be cool if someone can whip up an example of what an average page may look like with such a theme.

I can't lie, I like the colors of HF at the moment, as they are same colors that I have my proton theme set to. When I suggested the Dark Mode, it would be different then what HF is working with right now. The color scheme it's using right now, is more similar to them "Carbon" in proton apps, it gives a darkish gey and black colors, mixed with highlights of purple. Looks pretty bad ass to me. If we were going to go all out Dark Mode on HF, alot of the greys would get a darker tone to them, and some of them would become black. The purple highlights, would turn black. It would just be all around a darker theme. Maybe in the future we'll be able to switch between different themes at a push of a button. Ya never know!

[titi]

If you could snap your fingers & create a new HF theme for everyone, what would you make?

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If I had to go with a drastic new look, I would take some hybrid of hackernews, reddit, github, and bring in either a Facebook or LinkedIn style newsfeed as a primary page/feature of the new theme.

It would be light or dark theme with a quick toggle in the corner of every page & if I had to choose between Windows vs Mac/iphone vs Android themes I guess I'd go with a MacOS-ish style, a nice small font family/size/weight, and try to implement some sort of nested post UX similar to reddit where you can see replies (quoted posts) directly under the original, and open/collapse diff comment trees.

It would be similar to github because I think it would be cool to have the user profiles show top threads / posts & stats similar to how git profiles show pinned repos.

The hackernews reference would be to trending posts, and again - the nested comments feature. The theme would implement 'full view' (traditional mybb style) but also 'list view' (more like HN / Ycombinator or reddit, or hell - craigslist).

The FB theme style inspiration would be for global site convo bubble / popout chat window, as well as instant msging for users & an online users list like oldschool Facebook before Messenger.

The LinkedIn inspiration stems from the idea of how it brings in events - when someone is promoted or has an event, LinkedIn does a good job of showing it on newsfeeds. The theme's feed would feature users who join groups, upgrade to L33t/ub3r/etc, become Staff, gain Awards, break certain stat records, etc.

i would go pink all the way ✌

[Hackers]

i would go pink all the way ✌

we talking good pink or gambler's pink?

[titi]

we talking good pink or gambler's pink?

good pink of course