[WEBSITE v2] MusicBee website and forum redesign

[hiccup]

No hurries, I am the first and only one to 'complain' about this. (in a years time now?)
Just curious, do you have a sense of how successful or popular the new add-ons pages are?
Are people finding them, and using/browsing it a lot?

[AvikB]

Just curious, do you have a sense of how successful or popular the new add-ons pages are?

I have implemented statistics for total downloads of all add-ons and likes, it can be viewed by admins and mods.
I haven't implemented any feature to count visitor though. or weekly visit or anything like that. That seemed a bit overkill to me.

In the version 2 update i have added download count in the dashbaord for individual add-ons for every user.

Are people finding them, and using/browsing it a lot?

Don't know for sure :S , Lets just imagine they do.

[Steven]

Thanks for your quick response. It only goes to show how popular my skins are. Haha

the update isn't live yet. hope steven update it soon.

i have applied the patch now

[hiccup]

Thanks for your quick response. It only goes to show how popular my skins are. Haha

the update isn't live yet. hope steven update it soon.

i have applied the patch now

Confirming, it's fixed now. Thnx.

[hiccup]

I am certain this was brought up before, but I can't remember if it was classified 'unresolvable' or just not addressed yet.
Some text colors in the forum are extremely difficult to read when the dark theme is active.

E.g. the dark blue names of moderators currently present are unreadable (on my display that is), and I noticed that once in a while a moderator will edit the post of a member that deliberately chose a very dark font color for his/her message, because else his/her post would be unreadable for users using the dark theme.

Hopefully some solution is possible?
Maybe reduce the available font colors? Maybe redefining the available colors to come up with a few that work better in both light and dark theme? Perhaps an auto-replacement color feature which detects if the reader is using dark or light theme?

[AvikB]

I am certain this was brought up before, but I can't remember if it was classified 'unresolvable' or just not addressed yet. Some text colors in the forum are extremely difficult to read when the dark theme is active. E.g. the dark blue names of moderators currently present are unreadable (on my display that is), and I noticed that once in a while a moderator will edit the post of a member that deliberately chose a very dark font color for his/her message, because else his/her post would be unreadable for users using the dark theme. Hopefully some solution is possible?

Yes it was brought up before. But i have decided not to fix it.
When a user use a font color, the forum uses inline styling which can not be changed using CSS. A fix can't be done without using hacks or sort of.

Maybe reduce the available font colors? Maybe redefining the available colors to come up with a few that work better in both light and dark theme? Perhaps an auto-replacement color feature which detects if the reader is using dark or light theme?

there are already 11 color, which is not a huge amount. Maybe a different set of color that works with both light and dark theme would be more suitable.
I am already thinking of removing the black one. Any suggestion would be welcome.

[hiccup]

there are already 11 color, which is not a huge amount. Maybe a different set of color that works with both light and dark theme would be more suitable.
I am already thinking of removing the black one. Any suggestion would be welcome.

Do you have a personal preference for having a choice of 11 colors? Would less be an option in your opinion?
I'll see if I can come up with some suggestions for colors that will work o.k. in both themes.
To find eleven that work in both might be a challenge, would you be open to (less is more) maybe 6 or something like that?

Anybody else interested in this, please jump in with suggestions...

[AvikB]

Do you have a personal preference for having a choice of 11 colors? Would less be an option in your opinion? I'll see if I can come up with some suggestions for colors that will work o.k. in both themes. To find eleven that work in both might be a challenge, would you be open to (less is more) maybe 6 or something like that? Anybody else interested in this, please jump in with suggestions...

well i don't use all of those color myself, so i have no problem removing most of them, i included them as option. I think i just copied them from Microsoft's windows 10 color Platte or something. I am fully open to suggestion. I won't mind replacing them with 6 color if they are enough.

[CritterMan]

I think a test post containing all of the colors tested with both themes would result in a list of colors to remove, and that posting those colors here for feedback would move things along.

[hiccup]

well i don't use all of those color myself, so i have no problem removing most of them, i included them as option. I think i just copied them from Microsoft's windows 10 color Platte or something. I am fully open to suggestion. I won't mind replacing them with 6 color if they are enough.

Here is a proposal.
Trying it out, in my opinion 6 colors would indeed be enough, but if people would like a few more, I could try and make a palette for 9 colors.




In case the image gets degraded to jpg, for the exact colours you can download the png here:
https://1drv.ms/i/s!AkA0tSv_UzTAgmob7JxtidU_gpXA

(the rgb values I used are: red 252,0,3   orange 238,130,0   grey 156,156,156   blue 0,147,248   green 0,163,0   pink 205,120,214)

[hiccup]

While at it, this is an option that might work having a palette of 9 colours.

[AvikB]

well i don't use all of those color myself, so i have no problem removing most of them, i included them as option. I think i just copied them from Microsoft's windows 10 color Platte or something. I am fully open to suggestion. I won't mind replacing them with 6 color if they are enough.

Here is a proposal. Trying it out, in my opinion 6 colors would indeed be enough, but if people would like a few more, I could try and make a palette for 9 colors. In case the image gets degraded to jpg, for the exact colours you can download the png here: https://1drv.ms/i/s!AkA0tSv_UzTAgmob7JxtidU_gpXA (the rgb values I used are: red 252,0,3 orange 238,130,0 grey 156,156,156 blue 0,147,248 green 0,163,0 pink 205,120,214)

Thanks, that looks great. I will update the forum with these changes later.

[hiccup]

Thanks, that looks great. I will update the forum with these changes later.

Great.
In case you opt for the 9 colour version, I edited my former post with that one with a few improvements.

[hiccup]

I am not sure if this has been in the original proposals for the new forum, but I think it would be a good idea to have 'Polls' as a childboard under 'General Discussions'.
It's a rather specific beast, and would be good to give it's own playground.

Currently a way to separate them from other 'General' topics would be making them sticky, but that's not the most appropriate use, and you would also have to remember to un-sticky them if an end-date for the poll was set.

[AvikB]

I am not sure if this has been in the original proposals for the new forum, but I think it would be a good idea to have 'Polls' as a childboard under 'General Discussions'. It's a rather specific beast, and would be good to give it's own playground. Currently a way to separate them from other 'General' topics would be making them sticky, but that's not the most appropriate use, and you would also have to remember to un-sticky them if an end-date for the poll was set.

i guess that would be a good idea. You should ask steven to add it to child board. But there will be no update until january 5th, since new year is upon us and it is vacation time.

Also Merry Christmas and Happy New Year in advance since i won't be online during that time.
Happy Holidays, cheers.