BLF After Dark, CSS theme [not relevant anymore]

I donā€™t actually know much about CSS. I tried a few times to style some of those things and didnā€™t find a way to do it. Iā€™m kind of a Jill-of-many-trades, master of none. Someone with more experience could probably do it thoughā€¦

Iā€™d wager (no, thatā€™s illegal here) that ā€œmaster of noneā€ is just demure and self-deprecatory. Very funny. It looks to me, you could teach millions of ā€œscript kiddiesā€ more than just a thing or two!

And I still canā€™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:

Damn, bro, this is awesome. Thank you!

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 useridā€™s writing, or any particular thread or subthread ā€” just killfile them and never see them until I got curious again.

It made going online to accomplish anything really ā€¦. restful. If someoneā€™s posts drove me crazy and I just had to hammer them ā€” instead, I could do something more mature, and choose not to see what I couldnā€™t read with equanimity.

Itā€™s a gift. Many thanks.

No offense to anyone to whom I seem to quit replying, if you imagine I killfiled you, itā€™s not about you ā€” itā€™s about my peace of mind.
Iā€™ve always ā€” I hope, close anyhow ā€” backed away rather than reply to anything that riled me up.
Itā€™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.

Some of the links and quoted lines in the signature are in blue and very very small. My old eyes and bifocals have trouble distinguishing those, including your repository TK. I think itā€™s a combination of the shade of blue and the small size. prollyjustme

At least they turn white if you hover. :slight_smile:

I also tried to make them more visible by giving links a black dropshadow, but itā€™s still a bit odd with blue. Human eyes have difficulty focusing on pure blue light.

How do you want it to look instead of the current appearance?

Also, as a side note, you donā€™t have to use the ā€œafter darkā€ theme in order to get the blacklist function. But if you do want to keep the ā€œafter darkā€ part, the code is all editable. Look for this part, and uncomment/edit the second line:

    /* Make hyperlinks brighter, for DanielM */
    /* color: #0094d9 !important; */

Additionally, to make signatures bigger, look for this part and change the font size:

/* signature at the end of each post */
div.clear {
    /* display: none; */ /* in case you want no signatures at all */
    margin: 6px 0 0 0 !important;
    padding: 0 !important; 
    font-size: 80%;  /* make the text smaller by default */
    ...

Just IMNERHO, but I absolutely LOVE the way hyperlinks work in this theme!! On my system, they change to White & quickly-but-gradually increase in apparent brightness, just like the CFLs I used to appreciate.

Just one of many wonderful features!!

I donā€™t even mind that the Search Results pages look really weird.

I guess my blue rods have been turned into red rods by my hot rods. :stuck_out_tongue:

I updated the main theme file just now, with one tiny change:

  • Styled the new ā€œRude!ā€ button. (actually, all ā€œflagā€ actions)

Iā€™m not sure about styling the rudeness meter on the left yetā€¦ havenā€™t seen it with a non-zero number. Then again, I think the feature only landed like ten minutes ago.

Wow, that was lightning fast! Thanks! (I gave you a quick rudeness point so you can test it with a non-zero number. :innocent: )

Got a little distracted, but the meter works now too.

Not that it didnā€™t work before. It was just bright green. :slight_smile:

I lost track of the discussion about blocking signature files, pointer welcome, I am sure itā€™s in another thread but search isnā€™t finding it for me.

Iā€™ll copy it here:

Ahhhh, that works. Text I had long since memorized no longer appears every time.

Now, to program my glasses to filter out certain billboards and t-shirts ā€¦. oh, wait, thatā€™s science fiction ā€¦.
And nobody has invented not-hearing-aid filtering either, just yet.

This is awesome. Thank you!

Iā€™m not a fan of bright white high-contrast web designs. I find it more more comfortable to read some dimmer lower-contrast greys.

Kinda goes with being photosensitive, I guess. I can see well in the dark, but I canā€™t really see during the day unless I have dark sunglasses.

Kudos for this After Dark theme! I always wondered what dark skinned BLF would look like.

Thank you!

TK, Which line do I edit to change the color of the ā€œNEWā€ and ā€œUPDATEDā€ markers that show next to thread titles? It currently shows as deep red and I find it hard to see, probably due to my partial color blindness.

EDIT: Found it. It's this section:

Ah, interesting. Those only appear in a part of the interface that I donā€™t use. Hadnā€™t even noticed those were there.

The ā€œnewā€ markers I configured are bold black text on a red shadow. Thin red text on a grey background was probably inherited from an earlier version a few years ago, before BLFā€™s code got updated.

Iā€™ll have to remember to fix that.

Another question: product descriptions below images in the screenshot below are unreadable. They do become readable when I hover my mouse over them. How do I change that font color in your CSS?

Thanks!

Link to that specific thread, although itā€™s not the only one with that issue: