BLF After Dark, CSS theme [not relevant anymore]

BLF Site-related Issues
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Er, there are at least three ways to search now and they all work pretty well:

  • “Search within thread” at the top of each thread, if you know the thread you’re looking for.
  • “My threads” and “My posts” for each user, if you know which user you’re looking for.
  • Google “site:budgetlightforum.com my search terms” to search the entire site (which IIRC is what the main search box does).
67

I have no idea; I haven’t tried to do it with a hotkey. It’s usually pretty straightforward to just turn the extension on and off, or use the extension’s config interface to turn the theme on and off.

68

Oh (duh); yeah now that I installed it, in FF, I have “/User Styles” offered under /Tools/Add-ons/ —- and as yours is the only User Style there, it’s a mere 3 clicks.

69

Shes a pretty one! I like the theme it looks like a old school forum :smiley:

70

Ooooh nice! Have the lastest.css installed…very very nice

71

Old school indeed. My personal web site looks like a refugee from Geocities. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

72

FWIW, it seems easiest to manage by using the Stylish extension’s “userstyles.org” repository. Now that I have that all set up, anyway, updates are only a couple clicks.

73

Yup…added the userstyles.org tab…then copied your “global” affecting .css into a style specifically for budget light forum…so now it only affects this one website rather than all of them…it appears all it added was

@namespace url(XHTML namespace);

@-moz-document domain(“budgetlightforum.com”) {

to the front of it…everything else was straight copy/paste from your already made style

Very awesome TK!!!

or after simply clicking the tab, clicking find styles for this site, and clicking BLF After Dark BudgetLightForum dark theme by ToyKeeper and clicking install….duh, had me a smack my forhead coulda had a V8 moment just then

So awesome TK…so simple you are incredible!

74

Hi, a small update.

If there’s anyone whose posts you don’t want to see, it’s pretty easy to hide what they write. Add this to a custom style for each person on your personal blacklist:

/* block John Doe */
div.posted-by-54321 div.forum-post-content {
    display: none !important;
}
div.posted-by-54321 div.forum-post-info {
    background: linear-gradient(#b34, #512) !important;
}

Replace the “54321” with the numeric ID of the account, like the last part of the URL after clicking someone’s name. It’ll hide what they wrote and change the color of the post header to red. You can still see what they said by clicking the ‘quote’ button though, or viewing in another browser or incognito window.

75

Thanks TK,
I actually managed it and BLF After Dark is residing on my Chrome in Windows 7 Pro. Much much easier on the eyes, albeit some of the fine pring in signature lines and such is a bit difficult for me to read due to the specific blue color. I’ll adjust, I’m sure.

Thanks again, remarkable.

76

I am loving it… but, the search box text area is tiny with the theme and normal when not using the theme. I am in firefox…

77

In case it helps, here’s an example which can be added to Stylish using its import/export function:

http://toykeeper.net/torches/css/blf-blacklist.css.export

It blocks any posts by me, and you can change it to someone else by changing “6266” to a different number. Or copy/paste the two clauses with other numbers to add more people.

78

Sweet trick on iPhone or iPad…
Setting the accessibility shortcut to invert colours gives the site an awesome black and orange look when you triple click the home button.

Try it!

79

BTW, if anyone wants to hide the posts entirely, it’s actually a lot simpler. Just remove some code until it looks like this:

/* Someone */
div.posted-by-54321 { display: none !important; }

It doesn’t need the second clause from earlier. This shorter one will remove the posts as if they weren’t even there. Quotes included by others are still visible though, and it’ll skip post numbers when something is hidden.

I just prefer to see that something was there, instead of making it entirely invisible.

(BTW, we don’t have 50,000+ users yet, but when that day comes and someone ends up with ID 54321, I apologize in advance)

80

I might have to enter with a new name and nab that 54321 user ID so I can talk all I want and no one will even know. :stuck_out_tongue: hahahahahahahahaha

81

Thank you, ToyKeeper!

I did as you instructed. The new .css is amazing. It grows on a person, much like warts or cancer, but with much more pleasing results! :wink:

Seriously, though (what, me?), it’s amazing how much better it looks and feels as time goes by! I really do love it!

(and the drop-down-list button by the ‘Text format’ selector below this box is still “old”. Plus pulling down the list looks strange. No way would I ask you to work your magic on the buttons above this box. Just sayin’…)

82

I don’t actually know much about CSS. I tried a few times to style some of those things and didn’t find a way to do it. I’m kind of a Jill-of-many-trades, master of none. Someone with more experience could probably do it though…

83

I’d wager (no, that’s illegal here) that “master of none” is just demure and self-deprecatory. Very funny. It looks to me, you could teach millions of “script kiddies” more than just a thing or two!

And I still can’t get over how much more I like this new look now, than I did just a few minutes ago!

:beer: :+1: :student: :partying_face: :heart_eyes:

84

Damn, bro, this is awesome. Thank you!

85

Thank you thank you thank you for the killfile feature.

I was so comfortable with Usenet, where I could simply choose never to see any particular userid’s writing, or any particular thread or subthread — just killfile them and never see them until I got curious again.

It made going online to accomplish anything really …. restful. If someone’s posts drove me crazy and I just had to hammer them — instead, I could do something more mature, and choose not to see what I couldn’t read with equanimity.

It’s a gift. Many thanks.

No offense to anyone to whom I seem to quit replying, if you imagine I killfiled you, it’s not about you — it’s about my peace of mind.
I’ve always — I hope, close anyhow — backed away rather than reply to anything that riled me up.
It’s how the rules here tell me to work with the site, and I really respect that.

Killfile helps me do that, automagically.

I want to use BLF in a way that keeps me peaceful. I can do that, if I work a bit at it.