Feeling cyberpunk?
Hi everyone!
There is a new theme called cyberpunkish in the web interface settings now.
I wanted to create a theme for this instance and this is my first stab at it. If you try it out, any feedback is very welcome!
I edited this post to show how it looks now in latest version. I will sticky this post for a day so regular users dont miss info about it.
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Huge thanks to @[email protected] for so much great feedback about the theme.
If many people think its great, perhaps we set it as default for the instance.
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Neato!
Still in progress but its starting to look pretty cool. Im not normally making themes, but its kind of fun. Very time consuming though. :)
Niiiice
Gonna try it out soon!
Coming back after I tried, now I love it more than Photon! You really managed to breathe some fresh air into an otherwise bulky and rough interface
If I would change anything after playing around with it for a while, it's the amount of gradient elements that make it look a bit too vibrant and cheap at the same time. Though I absolutely adore how you managed to highlight selected toggles like "Subscribed/Home/All" and "Hot/Top/Controversial/New/Old". And the top bar is pure gold, with cyberpunkish instance name and perfect menu grouping.
Thank you! Im still working on it, so I really love the feedback. Which gradients would you get rid off? Take screenshots and show me if you have some time. :)
I dont know if I like the right side gradients so much, something feels off here to me:
And also not sure about the post form if its too much:
Yes, the right side is a big culprit indeed, especially the links. They may use something to be less bland, maybe, but they shouldn't be so vivid as to throw the visual balance.
Also maybe something can be done about the gradient bar next to posts:
Maybe extend and curve them a little to fit the post blocks, so that they would look more complementary?
The comment field you demonstrated is fine by me - if only the text field should be more consistent. It should either be all black, without that gradient frame, or the gradient color should fill the whole field.
Thank you, will see what I can do the coming days. I like that gradient next to the posts, but you are thinking they could be a bit curved to cover a bit of the top and bottom as well, like "[" ?
Maybe each post could have some thin border around it with gradient, but could be too much also.
Some experiments:
Oooh, the second one is good! Even better than I envisioned. The first one has some merit too - especially if it could display upvote/downvote ratio, though as most posts have it on the side of upvotes, this adds some complexity. Also I don't know if it's even possible. But in any case, the second one is good as it is.
Yeah it kind of fits well into the vibe. If you pick the "test3.css" theme you can use it and see how it fits overall.
Yep, test3 is good
that looks really cool, as a mobile user, i'm jealous! 🤩
Looks awesome, i switched over to it. Simular to photon but faster and nicer.
Looks pretty great!
It's taking me a second to take a look at this, but this is a fantastic look. I'm still learning this particular UI, though with time, I might be able to do something about it.
Its confusing in the beginning, but hang in there. :)