New Forum Skin: Introducing 'vB3D' Edit: And vB3D-LC

Oh thank god...I fired up the forum and nearly died of shock. I'll be blunt, I hate the new theme, sorry. I definitely think it's far too 'bubbly' and bright. I hate to say it, but it'd look far better if you went with something similar to what they're using over at Toms Hardware (barf, barfbarf..the site that is). It's the same sort of strong blue/white theme, though it's much more squared off and 'professional' looking, dare I say. I've always liked the fact that Beyond3d has used such a simple theme, it's almost like a statement saying we don't care about looks, just the facts! I don't know, just ranting. I'd love to see the same theme, with darker blues, less stark transitions between blue and white, and a lot more sharp, square edges to give a really 'pro' look.

Keep the original as a selectable though and i'm happy as can be!

 

The theme is awesomeness of the highest degree, but I'm also going to have to be boring and make the inevitable 'too bright' comment. Just a slightly lower contrast between text and background and I think it would be just perfect.

 

I have CPU usage of around 40% when scrolling by clicking in the side bar, 70% or so when using the mouse wheel to scroll, 100% if I grab the sidebar button and drag it about.

1.7GHz P4, 512MB, IE6, 1024x768.

 

I like it too. Though if I'm picky I'll simply reinforce what others have touched on ... logo is a bit too big, and the background is just a tad bright (ok for most situations but not when hungover).

 

Great new site skin.

My personal preferences is close to it too.

I have this feeling too when viewing with LCDs.

 

We'll take a look at generating a version of the new skin with slightly lower contrast to appease those with displays set to "I hate my own retinas" levels of brightness, but no promises on when other than "pretty soon".

 

White point 10,000K.

 

Excellent idea re the alternative version of the new skin. My retina's will thank you.

 

I'm glad posting here doesn't increase my post count, and I apologise if I now go off topic, but...


Waaaayyy to go Valzic!

 

Looks good, but as many others have mentions, its just to bright atm on my monitor. But if we get a "darker" version of it, it'll be great.

 

Well, in my case it was Opera (i have no idea about ie and i didn't try firefox).

 

I've not seen any CPU usage issues with the latest Firefox if that helps any.

 

Looks like you are pining for past glories

 

For he lives twice who can at once employ, The present well, and e’en the past enjoy.

 

The toned down contrast is much nicer. I'll probably keep the default now. Thanks.

Nite_Hawk

 

Firefox eats 100% scrolling the forum but IE7 doesn't and it's jerky in both browsers.

 

Nah, I was just suggesting something B3D maybe can consider providing as an option to those that complain about the brightness. I'm fine with the new look personally (I thought I said that earlier?).

 

Much nicer! Thank you!

I gave it a few days, and I still think it was rather bright, but then the whole point of themes is because everyone has different preferences for what they like to look at. Why get used to changes when we can choose our browsing experience individually?

Considering the big changes, the fact that some of us wanted it a little less bright means that overall it's a big success, so don't take the minor criticism too much to heart.

 

lol I was just about to comment on the new posts icon not looking very obvious. Thanks again Vys.

Are you willing to change the shade of blue to that of the B3D logo? And how about a darker shade of grey to go along with that?

Here's another forum that uses a similar colour scheme that I think looks easy to read: TheForumBar