There should be a < at the top of the side bar (next to the very top gear). If you click that, it is supposed to collapse the bar. Right now that appears to be broken, I'll get to it in a bit!

• there is an edit button, I wonder if it's only showing up for admins instead of admins + post creators. i'll take a look
• the reaction component needs some work in general, it's on my list! right now it can open 3x on the page in weird circumstances lol
• yup, will slow it down
• yup, good call, will give the forum post headers a little color to make more separation

I'm also going to do some work on the topic list page (forum page), really hard to look at that list

Layout Update

Themes have been moved server-side. Previously, when you chose a new layout from the footer, it was saving that in your browser. When you loaded a new page, Kumos sent the layout with the 'default' style, and then your browser says "alright, now apply the Shadowglen layout". A lot of you saw a flash of styles, especially jarring if your computer was in dark mode.

Now, everyone starts in the default centropolis theme, regardless of dark mode preferences. You can choose a dark mode theme (shadowglen has been made very dark if that's your preference!) and you shouldn't get any flashes of color of styles as your browsing the site.

• Themes have been moved to a settings page, that allows you to choose your theme and see it take effect
• Style choice has been moved to a user.preference, and is shared across devices

Totally understand that it's a change in patterns, and as mentioned it's not working how it's meant to right now. Hoping to get that fix out today (and fix the mobile sidebar!)

The idea is that the notifications go into your "unread" and once you action on them (hit the X) they go into a "read" page (which will also be /events), where they'll be grouped by type and stacked. They'll stay there for 3 months until they're permanently deleted (but you can permanetly delete from the page). This way we resolve a lot of the issues we have with events:

1. People accidently deleting them, and then not seeing an important update or something they need to action on
2. Our storing 20 years of events in our events table, is (outside of the forums and sMail) the largest disk storage issue for our database. Having a clearing schedule will resolve that (we won't be deleting any non-kumos events in this clear, since we've never done that and I don't want people to lose events from loved ones who've passed or left the site)
3. A frequent request is the ability to say that you've seen an event (so it doesn't show up in the sidebar) but you haven't completed (e.g. an sMail from a friend - you might not want it to show up in the sidebar as you're navigating the site, but leave it in your 'read' until you're ready to deal with it). This is a really, really common event request!

With the push later today it should resolve the issues with them popping over immediately (that doesn't happen in the event widget right now, fyi!) and the mobile sidebar not popping out anymore 😡

the sidebar should no longer automatically mark your events as 'read'! You'll have to click them manually.

Once you do, 'read' events get cleared out after three months, but you can mark an event as 'unread' from the read panel.

Hey everyone!

This should help with the "things look off" feeling on the main light themes. Based on feedback around themes feeling too saturated/beige and item images clashing with colored backgrounds, I've made some updates:

Changes:

• Default/Centropolis: Clean white background instead of the beige/cream that was causing item images to look harsh. Kept the vibrant green accents.
• Delphi: Same treatment - clean white base with vibrant turquoise accents.

The approach now is: white backgrounds + vibrant accent colors - so item images (which have white backgrounds) blend naturally, while buttons/headers/widgets still pop with color.

Let me know how these feel! Specifically curious:

• Does the white background feel better with item images?
• Are the green/turquoise accents still vibrant enough, or too bright?

I haven't touched the dark themes yet - those need their own pass.

also I really appreciate this level of detailed feedback - and especially some considerations for places to go. I am Not A Designer by any stretch of the imagination!

Thank you everyone for the feedback, still going to get some in. I made some changes to the mobile layout, which include... actually being able to show the sidebar 🤡