With all the recent amazing additions of fancier sCodes, I think this warrants a topic of its own. It might be worth considering as an accessibility feature too.

It would be nice if the forums had a "clean mode" toggle in the site settings. When enabled, this would disable signatures, forumtext and force all posts to have the default forum font (type, size & colour). Bold, italic, underline, and strikethrough commands would still work and display as normal.

Right now, I have all forumtext, forumsets, signatures, what-have-yous disabled with customCSS because I find them all too chunky and distracting. I've occasionally also had problems figuring out which text belonged to the user's post and what belonged to their forumtext.

But the customCSS trick doesn't always work. Someone can easily get around it by pasting their forumtext or fancy text formatting into every post and overriding your customCSS. Then you have to deal with tiny 6pt hotpink serif typeface font.

I imagine "clean mode" would also not work in this situation, but I'm hoping it would be possible to make a workaround.

this would be a blessing for viewing the forums in mobile devices, full support!

This would be great. Full support.

Yes. You didn't mention it, but I assume the new box color code would also be disabled in clean mode. My default font is almost white so when people used bright colored boxes, it's very hard to read if they don't also change the font color xD

Probably! But I'm not sure what to do about that particular one because people will likely use it for making fancy contest posts, selling topics and so on.

Maybe it could just have a border in clean mode? Or have a neutral, very light gradient as a background? Just light enough so that you can tell at a glance that hey, this thing is indicating something special that's worth paying attention to.

Though I imagine the box colour would still be customizable with customCSS, even with clean mode enabled. ? So you could, in theory, adjust it to any custom layouts you're using after enabling clean mode, and it would stick.

So a regular user with clean mode disabled would see... idk, rainbow coloured box colour bars. And with clean mode on & a spot of customCSS, you'd have a colour that won't make your eyes burn.

Very true. Extra dumb points for me. I didn't even think about overriding the box colors with custom css until waaaaaaay after I posted. x_x

@ Riptide Nah, you're good! The thing is, I don't know if the customcss will stick to all of them or if they'll be weird like pasted text colours in posts.

I'll mess with it later and add it to the first post when I'm on PC again. [edit]Box customCSS seems to work fine! Edit, expand and adjust this as you see fit. :D .scode-box { background-color:!important;}

I would love this for browsing on mobile. I remember when Subeta began allowing users to access user shops in clean/simple view mode which was greatly appreciated.