Because the clock widget is how we're able to make it work with the layout -- it's not something every user needs (most can use the clock on their computer) and so it's available as a widget for users who do want it. I'll work to make it more compact, but you're going to need to scroll a little bit if you'd like to use it.

Also, there is a ⚙️ icon to the right of some of the widgets, like the avatar widget. That'll allow you to change the options, like use the full avatar instead of the headshot. Instead of making it one way for everyone, we're giving folks the option to display it how they'd like (and a large percentage leave it as just the headshot!)

The clock shows Subeta time, and I guess the majority of users doesn't live in Subeta time ;-) So I indeed use the clock a lot, to see, where we're at in Subeta. Due to also differing summer/winter time switching, it's not an easy always add/deduct so many hours.

Re avatar - very smart! I didn't even see the icon on the widgets (very slight difference in colour there). Thank you and sorry.

I appreciate your reply!

I'm trying to write this post on Kumos for the first time. Is there are ping button I don't see or do you have to manually write out people's names?

I see you made a change to the font color. Looks a lot better now. Though I did notice there was still an issue with header type text in posts.. Let's see if I can do this...

Testing testing

testing?

Well, there's no preview post so let's hope this works.

Err... Scratch that, I can't actually make a post on Kumos. I tried, but when I clicked Post Reply, I got this error "The body field is required."

I wrote this on legacy, but hopefully those pound signs will turn into something on Kumos...

Oh no, you should be able to reply! it sounds like you might not be loading the markdown reply box? it should look like this:

If you aren't loading that correctly, I can look into why that might be the case! but that also provides previews for markdown in posts, which might have been what you were looking for 😰

ah yes, my bad. All that totally wasn't there on my end, but it was my fault due to not allowing things I didn't recognize on NoScript. I got this markdown box now and am writing this on Kumos, let's give this a try.

Testing let's goo

Clicked the header twice and got this one

Think bold is still dark too

Aaand let's preview now. Alright the preview was a little weird so let's just try.

EDIT:

Image of the preview not really working https://i.imgur.com/gGqklYZ.png

oops,

the image lol

I do see that kind of stuff while typing! My thought in using the preview was seeing it without all the pound signs and asterisks though. But I promise I'm not smart enough to block a .css file, I don't know what that means or what that does. By default all things are untrusted in NoScript, and as I learn what things do I cautiously allow them. Yeah, that preview box does have a white background, and so do the markdown icons when you hover over them. I'm using Firefox 134.0 (64-bit) on Windows 10 if that info helps.

Below this box it says you can attach files by pasting from clipboard, but that didn't work for me, I got an error. I don't know how to put an image here, if the old img scode works? This is just all I see in NoScript.

EDIT: also, thanks for correcting the colors of the headers!

EDIT 2: I also just checked this on my phone, and I'm still seeing a white background for the preview box there. And I can say with 1000% certainty that I would not know how to block anything like that on there. I do not have any add-ons like that on my phone, and I'm using Chrome there.

Which theme are you using? Can you select one in the footer (even if it's just selecting away from the one you're using and back) to shake up your CSS? I wonder if that's the issue

unfortunately it appears to be the same white color on every theme.

ok weird i'm seeing that other people aren't seeing the same issues that i am so i guess i will point them out.

screenshots

• it seems like there's all this space at the top reserved for the header image, but no header image.
• the sidebar has two arrow icons. clicking them to collapse the sidebar makes one of them change direction (to indicate it will un-collapse the sidebar) but the other stays facing left.
• clicking the gear icon to adjust the sidebar settings opens the panel in this way that makes it overflow the top and bottom of the page, with no ability to scroll up or down. if i want to be able to see the whole panel and access the buttons on the top and bottom, i need to zoom out the page to about 80%.
• can't change the theme. i can open the theme dropdown menu but clicking on any of the options does nothing, even if i refresh the page. (for the record, i've never actually been able to change the theme on kumos, even when the theme options were set up differently.)
• on some pages, there's about 200 pixels worth of empty space after the footer menu. on other pages, such as the forums and friends page, there's a lot more, enabling you to keep scrolling and scrolling through the void—which you can see from the position and size of my scrollbar in that last image.

and then just some things that aren't necessarily buggy but that still feel awkward imo:

• having the events directly in the sidebar (instead of its own tab within the sidebar) still feels clunky af, and there's no fast way to clear all or multiple events at once, so you just have to click the checkmarks one at a time. they also don't seem to be grouped by type.
• the news page automatically switches each week to show just that week's news posts—but if there haven't been any news posts yet that week (like there haven't been this week), the page is just empty. you can't even see the previous week's posts, so you have to go to the archive to do so... except even the archive doesn't have last week (week 2) as an option, so right now you can only view news posts up through january 5.
• the "you" and "frenchi" navigation tabs still feel like some sort of sick joke... "you, frenchi" yes? i am? that's me? thanks? now how am i supposed to predict the ontological nature of what i will find under one of these headers as opposed to the other?
• this is a small thing but it feels like the HA ought to be centered in the HA sidebar widget. having it off to the side like that looks a little funny.

i use firefox version 115.18.0esr. as of the end of last year i guess my OS is officially Too Old so i have been shunted to the ESR version of firefox, so maybe that's why certain scripts aren't working. the only extension i have that might affect that sort of thing is ublock origin, but i've temporarily disabled all my extensions and nothing changes. still can't get the theme to change no matter what i do.

i certainly don't expect everything to be immediately perfect and beautiful lol but i figure it's worth pointing out possible issues as they arise for when it comes time to deal with those things. then again now i'm worried the ESR version of firefox won't be able to handle whatever fancy new-fangled scripts kumos is using... but i haven't had any issues on other sites, so i wouldn't expect it to be an issue...

yep, that does successfully set the styling!

I haven't seen anyone mention this yet, so maybe it's just a me problem? But on Kumos, the drop down menus layer weirdly with other elements. Like, they should be rendering over the other content on the page, yes? But for whatever reason, the other content of the page seems to be taking precedence and leaving me unable to access half or more of the menu most of the time.

screenshots

You can see in the top image I'm missing everything between games and search because the recent posts section is on top of them. It's not as bad within a thread as the second image shows, but I'm still missing at least the logout option past search, and the currently selected page number is floating over the side of the drop down, though no other part of the thread navigation does that. I tried browsing through various pages on Kumos that don't utilize the legacy frame, and most of the ones I navigated to have an element somewhere that will show over the menus, with the exception of the cash shop main page. sMail seems to be mostly fine, but user headshots and the little paw icons beside names will cover menus.

The insertion point in the reply box is also REALLY hard to see on all the "dark" themes in the theme switcher because it stays black regardless of the chosen theme for me. The Darkside and Morostide themes in particular are nearly impossible for me to see.

I also have the same double arrows in my sidebar that has, though only the smaller one will actually collapse my sidebar. The larger one doesn't seem to do anything at all when clicked.