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When I try to change my theme, every page load reverts me back to "masquerade" that I was using before, before changing into the one I recently picked. So for example, "darkside".
And then further weirdness... maybe I'm misunderstanding what this does, but... I go to the themes and click "default", it changes into a light theme with a green color scheme. I load a new page and "masquerade" briefly loads before shifting into "darkside".
I can see the pink/blue/purpley gradients from masquerade before being replaced by the reds from darkside. On every page.
And the size of my sidebar is shifting on every page too. While it's loading "masquerade" underneath, the sidebar is slightly thinner, then when "darkside" loads in, it widens the sidebar, shifting the page content.
It's very brief but I managed to get a screenshot of it.
masquerade loading in with the thinner sidebar
immediately after the page loads darkside with wider sidebar
I don't know if this has to do with me trying out the custom css snippets that didn't actually work for me or what, I don't remember it doing this yesterday.
It's weird, because I went to open the page with the css snippets on it and... my theme is Autumn, for some reason. o_0
he/him / 31 / EST |  | My best friend is |
right now, your theme choice is saved in “local storage”—basically, a tiny browser database where websites can stash stuff like your preferences so they’re ready before the server sends anything.
when the page loads, the html and js load up. the js goes, “cool, the page is ready—what theme are we using?” and applies it to the
tag. this setup works great unless you’re constantly reloading pages. smoother navigation is possible, but rn there’s another bug: if we skip reloading the whole page, hovers (like item/user previews) break.so, i’m moving theme prefs to the database. they’ll get sent with the initial html, like on the legacy site. this means no more “magic fast” theme switching in the footer, but the data will be in the right place.
tl;dr: i know it’s annoying that it jumps between pages. i’m on it, and it should be sorted in a few days. thx for your patience 🙃
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Thanks for explaining!
By the way the more I use Kumos the more I'm getting used to it. I can only recommend to everyone that you beta test as much as possible so you can warm up to it and to try to get your opinions/feedback out there while Keith is still building it up. Waiting until the switch is forced on you will only be detrimental. This is coming from someone who really hated Kumos at first, and while it still has a way to go in feeling like home the way the legacy site does, it's improving.
I'm wondering (and hoping) about the day the wardrobe changes from new.subeta to kumos. There's always been some wonky issues with the wardrobe on there that I'm eager to see corrected now that you're deep in new coding.
he/him / 31 / EST | | My best friend is |
i’ve been building out all the individual pieces! a lot of the groundwork for shared outfits depended on redoing how avatars are represented, making it way easier to interact with them now.
i’ve learned a ton since making new.subeta.net—it launched with the “newest and greatest” tech at the time, but wow… it’s already outdated. what i’m doing with kumos is leaning on solid, standard PHP patterns, a lot like how legacy subeta works. more pages, more moving around, less forcing everything to be instant.
new.subeta.net still has huge potential to simplify things, though, by replacing one of the subeta sites. here’s why:
- wardrobe: big project to move, but achievable. once it’s better integrated into the site, we can reuse those components everywhere (e.g., click to add vault items directly to your avatar). it’ll feel way more seamless.
- cw shops: another big move, but pretty aligned with what’s already on kumos.
- subscriptions: planning to move these over too, with $10 and $20 tiers. also gonna make a bold fundraising push—subeta’s a special corner of the web, and i’d love to keep it thriving. i’m hoping to bring in more illustrators in 2025 to make it even better. 🙏
feeling ambitious, but it’s all coming together. i keep looking around at social media drama on the internet and waiting for someone to make 'the perfect place online', and recently looked up and realized..... i can make that ✨
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I don't know where else to mention this because it's small potatoes but the forum groups section of the forums is a bit messy. On current Subeta, forum groups with no posts on them don't show up on the forums but on Kumos, they show up anyway. I'm part of a lot of forum groups for Survival and they don't have posts and probably never will, they're just there for pinging purposes. With all these empty groups, there is now a lot of scrolling, especially to find the groups that do have posts and activity in them.
If we have to keep the empty ones (I would prefer the option to not see them), then I think it makes sense to make the groups with posts show up first and have the empty ones after them.
No criticism to make of it... Just wanted to say that it's looking fire so far to me (I use the Delphi theme right now)! The slight gradients, the rounded corners, the drop shadows... it reminds me a little bit of neumorphism, which I love a lot! The forums main page is my favorite, the Recent Posts marquee thing is so fun. 😁
I think I can tackle that and get it so those stop showing up.
Right now I'm taking a saw to the front page of the forums (ty !) to get them loading faster, and have a little more of a vibrant feeling. I can get them hiding empty categories.
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I know you're messing around with the forum layout, so hopefully this is just temporary, but opening a subforum unbalances the page a bit.
Hunting for: (It's the only beanbag I need for a full collection!)
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<li>subscriptions: planning to move these over too, with $10 and $20 tiers.
A $10 tier exists. A $20 tier sounds a bit steep, but I assume the perks will be good.
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keith the sidebar doesn't have a max widthhhh it's so huge on my screen 😭 i love that you're using tailwind because i use it all the time though! it's my fave framework ever.
if you add .grow-0 to it should fix it!!
2)i can edit my new css snippets without getting the captcha, but i still can't edit my old ones because they cause the captcha to appear?? in case it's needed - "dark mode (soft grey & blue)" works, "small sidebar tweaks" triggers the captcha
- the text colour in .alert-warning is overwritten by the colour of ".card-actions span" - i'm looking at "You've reached your daily limit for this quest. Try again tomorrow!" on the quest pages and the text is white when it should be dark for my theme
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Sorry I left it in that state! We are using tailwind! I've had a lot of problems with it over the years, I feel like it was trying to re-make a lot of browser conventions, but we're using the V4 beta, which undoes a ton of that!
Everything compiles to actual CSS custom properties and is configurable in CSS, and it leans a lot more on web standards. It's a huge improvement imo and I'm glad it happened around the same time that I'm re-building Subeta!
Anyway, part of our build step is to look through all of the code and figure out what we've used (a pretty standard postcss build) and it missed those helpers on the sidebar (m-w-[300px]) so it was... growing to whatever it wanted. it should now have a max width!
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I came here to say, that the side bar has become unneccessarily wide. But others have brought that up already Btw., if I split my screen to 2 windows, which I always do, the drop down menues disappear, there are 5 small lines instead, if I click them, the drop down menues ALL open as a "Menu" at the left side on top of the sidebar. I have to manually close it, clicking the X. Needless to say, I prefer the legacy style.
For a few days layouts refused to change at all. Works like a charm now, yet (only) Masquerade doesn't show a picture at the top. (And I miss my Arctic Frost layout - was that one we had to earn?)