Legacy Feedback on Advanced Post Thanks / Like

[Fred Weiss]

We're very pleased overall with the product as are most of our members.

Where we think you need to spend some time is with the color changes each button can make.

1. The color being assigned is labeled "Font Colour" but this is not the case with most of the four choices available. What gets changed is the background color.

2. Although our post headers (where we ended up putting the color change) are dark blue with white text, assigning a color to them caused the text to be black. Since there is no control over the text color and most of your menu colors are too dark to work well with black text, we were forced to research available Windows Colors and found that there are 140 of them. We then went through a trial and error recoding of your colors to add those that worked better as far as we are concerned. This will probably then mean a fair amount of additional work should there ever be an upgrade made available for this mod.

3. In the same vein, those colors that had reasonable contrast with black text, were generally overly bright and loud which caused immediate complaints from many members. There was also a general lack of a logical sequence of colors to build a five step color change for each button. So we added enough colors to the menu to support a change from Lemon Chiffon to Gold for Thanks, PaleGreen to Dark Turquoise for Likes, and Pink to Red on Dislikes.

In addition, and perhaps I'm confused, we could not find a control on when a given number of Dislikes would cause a post to collapse. The Auto Collapse feature in the Forum Manager allows one to change the number from 10 to any number but it will not retain it after saving. Is this a permissions issue perhaps?

 

[Fillip H.]

1. The color being assigned is labeled "Font Colour" but this is not the case with most of the four choices available. What gets changed is the background color.

The main descriptive text of this setting does an adequate job of explaining what each setting does, I feel

2. Although our post headers (where we ended up putting the color change) are dark blue with white text, assigning a color to them caused the text to be black. Since there is no control over the text color and most of your menu colors are too dark to work well with black text, we were forced to research available Windows Colors and found that there are 140 of them. We then went through a trial and error recoding of your colors to add those that worked better as far as we are concerned. This will probably then mean a fair amount of additional work should there ever be an upgrade made available for this mod.

There will not be any amount of additional work required, as vB4 will automatically merge the CSS template should we modify it in a future version. Only if we modify the exact lines of CSS will there be conflicts.

That being said, if you would like to have your customisations considered for inclusion in the default product, feel free to post the complete list of CSS classes as well as screenshots of how each colour configuration looks in the default style

3. In the same vein, those colors that had reasonable contrast with black text, were generally overly bright and loud which caused immediate complaints from many members. There was also a general lack of a logical sequence of colors to build a five step color change for each button. So we added enough colors to the menu to support a change from Lemon Chiffon to Gold for Thanks, PaleGreen to Dark Turquoise for Likes, and Pink to Red on Dislikes.

We offer forums complete customisability by simply changing the colour definitions in the CSS (although changing the CSS class names will break things).

In addition, and perhaps I'm confused, we could not find a control on when a given number of Dislikes would cause a post to collapse. The Auto Collapse feature in the Forum Manager allows one to change the number from 10 to any number but it will not retain it after saving. Is this a permissions issue perhaps?

If the number doesn't save, this means you are running PHP 5.3.9 or newer and you have max_input_vars either left at the default of 1000 and you have too many forums, or the number you changed max_input_vars to is still too low. Resolve this issue and restart Apache.

 

[Fred Weiss]

The main descriptive text of this setting does an adequate job of explaining what each setting does, I feel

There will not be any amount of additional work required, as vB4 will automatically merge the CSS template should we modify it in a future version. Only if we modify the exact lines of CSS will there be conflicts.

That being said, if you would like to have your customisations considered for inclusion in the default product, feel free to post the complete list of CSS classes as well as screenshots of how each colour configuration looks in the default style

We offer forums complete customisability by simply changing the colour definitions in the CSS (although changing the CSS class names will break things).

If the number doesn't save, this means you are running PHP 5.3.9 or newer and you have max_input_vars either left at the default of 1000 and you have too many forums, or the number you changed max_input_vars to is still too low. Resolve this issue and restart Apache.

All well and good but you fail to address what started the problem. That is that adding any color to the post header causes the text to change from white to black. With black text and no control for it, more than half of your included colors result in the black text not having enough contrast to be readable. What I am saying is that you should consider making all four spots for the color changes to have controls for both background and text colors.