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Which Template Style do you like?

Mobile Style "Charon" (Modern)
3
30%
Default Style "Prosilver" (Compact)
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70%
 
Total votes: 10

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Re: How to Change the Default Template Style

Post by Pal » Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:21 pm

zzm9980 wrote:This thread reminds me of those news articles every time Faceboook, Google, or someone else change something cosmetic about their sites. Dozens of unhappy sound bites of people threatening to quit are aired, protests and petitions happen, but ultimately the sites get more traffic.

If Pal shows people in a year what the site used to look like they'd be shocked.
Sorry for the change again. In addition to the protests, prosilver is much lighter and loads faster so perhaps more suitable as a default style.

Charon can still be selected in User Control Panel.
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Re: How to Change the Default Template Style

Post by Brah » Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:24 am

Pal - what about the weird characters I see in posts pre-upgrade? Like symbols and Greek letters, I think mostly from quoted text.

I mentioned this in this thread earlier.
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Re: How to Change the Default Template Style

Post by Pal » Thu, 13 Nov 2014 1:38 am

Brah wrote:Pal - what about the weird characters I see in posts pre-upgrade? Like symbols and Greek letters, I think mostly from quoted text.

I mentioned this in this thread earlier.
Some of the text did not import correctly from the upgrade, especially those in other character encoding.
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Re: How to Change the Default Template Style

Post by Pal » Thu, 13 Nov 2014 8:38 am

How is the font size of the prosilver? Is it acceptable? Easy to view?
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Re: How to Change the Default Template Style

Post by the lynx » Thu, 13 Nov 2014 10:41 am

While I appreciate the "cuteness" of prosilver (small font, cute and colourful icons, compact), I find it harder to navigate compared to Charon - both on PC and phone. But that's my personal take. I've switched mine back to Charon after spending a day with Prosilver.

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Re: How to Change the Default Template Style

Post by rajagainstthemachine » Thu, 13 Nov 2014 11:19 am

Prosilver seems to be good on windows phone using regular IE browser. on the desktop however it seems to be spaced a bit too close for comfort, but nevertheless I'm sticking to Prosilver.
Charon was a pain on windows phone and I had to use tapatalk for it but I'll probably end up doing it later at some point.
Thanks for adding prosilver as an option :mrgreen:
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Re: How to Change the Default Template Style

Post by Pal » Thu, 13 Nov 2014 2:43 pm

I have renamed prosilver to "Default Style" and Charon to "Mobile Style" and also install a drop down box on every page for quick style select.

I hope everyone will be happy after this.
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Re: How to Change the Default Template Style

Post by Brah » Thu, 13 Nov 2014 8:56 pm

Pal wrote:
Brah wrote:Pal - what about the weird characters I see in posts pre-upgrade? Like symbols and Greek letters, I think mostly from quoted text.

I mentioned this in this thread earlier.
Some of the text did not import correctly from the upgrade, especially those in other character encoding.
In my case technically not "other character encoding", but quoted text.
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Re: How to Change the Default Template Style

Post by Pal » Thu, 13 Nov 2014 9:28 pm

Brah wrote:
Pal wrote:
Brah wrote:Pal - what about the weird characters I see in posts pre-upgrade? Like symbols and Greek letters, I think mostly from quoted text.

I mentioned this in this thread earlier.
Some of the text did not import correctly from the upgrade, especially those in other character encoding.
In my case technically not "other character encoding", but quoted text.
Can you send me a link to the posts that contain weird characters?
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Re: How to Change the Default Template Style

Post by Pal » Fri, 21 Nov 2014 12:31 am

Brah wrote:Pal - what about the weird characters I see in posts pre-upgrade? Like symbols and Greek letters, I think mostly from quoted text.

I mentioned this in this thread earlier.
I am currently working on this. I have to copy hundreds of posts from the old database ](*,)
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