Theme concepts. 🎨

[r1y3]

Spamming some random feedback/nitpicks re: themes/visuals here:

1. Have said it before, but a necessary and ideal eventual revamp for the Personalize area, imo, would be breaking Themes and Icons down into collections. Would help with organization, and maybe even loading times? The font screen could use some decluttering (both in terms of layout, and pruning the zanier ones), with in-list previews being helpful. Reorder, favorite, and hide would all be huge. I picture the Archive as a place with sections where you dump all unwanted lists/offerings.

2. Design Challenges. Once every 2 weeks or so on Twitter post a call to submit concepts for a new visual based on a specific prompt, choosing one winner. Would be good for engagement and keeping the fun times going.

3. The first thing I noticed when I got on the beta years ago is that the stripes in the icons are all haggard. Being someone who has spent a good amount of time editing them I’ve always wondered what the deal was with it being like the picture below. (And while I’m on this topic, I noticed that the app icons, favicon, Twitter avi, and forum logo are all slightly different from each other. Makes me second-guess if I’m playing around with the preferred version.)

4. I would say don’t feel compelled to put in the work to bring all of the legacy themes back. Maybe a few, but most of them are kinda meh.

5. The “Clear X” theme would look cooler if it went Heatmap red→yellow instead of just red→orange. I waited a long time for that theme and it’s less poppy than I anticipated with the subtle fade.

6. “kokomo” isn’t capitalized, not sure if intentional.

7. There’s a typo in one of the quotes… the word “soa r” in the one attributed to Wash. Unless I’m just not in on the reference.

8. And lastly… that Luminova theme?

I went long as usual, I know. Just some notes, don’t feel obligated to respond. Thanks guys.