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« on: October 01, 2018, 06:22:07 PM »

I'm wondering if we should flip the color scheme for the individual board icons.

Right now, it's using the standard, which is basically there's a colored icon if there's new posts in the board and greyscale if there (for example, if there's a new post in Megan's board, it displays the colored icon for her board, otherwise, it displays the icon for Megan's board in grey).

That's the standard configuration, but I also find it's a bit bland. Most of the time, I don't have unread posts for very long, so all the boards are a dull grey for me.

Wondering if we should switch that around to have a board's icon grey when there are unread posts and colored when there aren't new posts waiting.

I don't think there's any technical limitation that would prevent us from flipping the icons around to behave like that (haven't tried). Would take a bit of time, I suppose.

I guess it also depends how many new posts there are for you. If there's lots of unread posts for you most of the time, then most of the board icons will be in color for you most of the time, which looks prettier.

What's everyone's preference?

Should board icons be in color when there are new posts or while there are no new posts?
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« Reply #1 on: October 01, 2018, 10:23:42 PM »

I like your idea of flipping them so that we get the lovely color pictures most of the time.
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« Reply #2 on: October 01, 2018, 11:36:40 PM »

I will work on switching them but it's not a easy job and I don't think I have all the photo yet so I will have to remake some of the photos I did 19 boards tonight and there is a total of 83 boards in this forum
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« Reply #3 on: October 02, 2018, 01:45:19 PM »

ok 6 hours later all the photos have been switched so they are now color most of the time hows it look


And no im not going to switch them back hahahaha


Also please let me know if any don't switch back and forth


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« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2018, 11:21:58 AM »

When I click "Mark as Read" to mark the whole forum as read, I still see the pictures for "General Discussion", "Members Helping Members", "Forum Guidelines", and "Best of Christmas Tour 2018" as gray.

I also see the "Amy Rivard" and "Edel Murphy" pictures as gray but it sounds like you know about those already since you want better photos for them.
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« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2018, 11:52:55 AM »

not sure what would be causing that for you as I don't have any problems I did at first it could be your cache in your web browser as the photos are the same just diff names like the gray ones are now on and the colored ones are off and before they were just the other way around so your browser maybe loading from the cache by name mine did the same thing for awhile but now seems fine. I have cleared the forums cache so that's now cleaned out so maybe try refreshing the page a few times
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« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2018, 01:24:51 PM »

Oh, that worked.  Thanks, Glen!
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« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2018, 08:59:04 PM »

Oooh nice, I cleared out my cache and now I see all the color. It looks amazing! Thanks for all the work you put into that Glen!
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« Reply #8 on: October 05, 2018, 01:56:07 PM »

Thanks Tracie was a lot of work but I had thought of doing this some time ago but knew how much work it was going to take but it looks really nice this way we need more members
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« Reply #9 on: October 05, 2018, 07:19:22 PM »

Thanks for all the work you put into this. The icons look fantastic in color!
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« Reply #10 on: October 05, 2018, 07:46:30 PM »

thanks Tom
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