Default Forum Theme Updated

[DarkeSword 🎮]

Hey all, I've updated our default theme to the new dark mode theme. This new theme reflects some of the style changes that have been made up front on the main site. If you notice any glaring issues with the new theme, please make a thread for the specific problem you notice in our Site Issues & Feedback forum so that I can address it specifically.

Our old theme is still available in the theme selector at the bottom of the forum page if you prefer the light version.

ENJOY!

-- DarkeSword

[Master Mi]

Thanks for also keeping the light version. ))

Not fully sure about this one (due to a missing comparison) - it might be also a thing of adaptation.
But my very first impression was that the former font was easier to read.

[Unknown Pseudoartist]

That's nice. I moved to "the dark side" around 1 decade ago and the classic "black font over white background" always burns my eyes. If the classic version is still available for whoever prefers that, I see absolutely no problem. I personally love the typical 2000s forum aesthetics in this theme particularly too. Simple but effective.

As a funny fact, I use a Firefox extension named "Dark background and light text" to adapt any site to this format. Maybe because some inconsistence between the HTML colors and the background images, the classic OCR theme didn't work well with the Default mode, so I had it configured to invert colors in order to get the dark theme experience.

So when I checked OCR today that's how it looked like, since it kept inverting colors :D (obviously I have it normal now)

Edited Wednesday at 11:08 AM by Unknown Pseudoartist

[DarkeSword 🎮]

Haha! Love it!

[Master Mi]

Dunno, when I saw the new dark theme the first times, I thought that some kind of apocalyptic Kefka cult must have raided the peaceful OCR platform - just to plunge the colourful world of video game music into chaos, darkness and depression.

But then I thought you're just following the legendary Japanese prophecy, aren't you? O_O
 

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Nah, just thought that the world could need much more light 'cause of the annoying weather (c'mon - only writing about it and it's just already raining like in late autumn again) and because the world got already dark enough for many people.

But maybe I'll just hang up a bright and sunny picture with a really nice tropical motif in my living room next to my studio environment.
This one has a really stunning paradisiacal ambience:




Or maybe this one?




I'm not really a designer with an addional degree in psychology.

But I think you understand how strongly certain colors and motifs can influence people's thoughts and feelings.
This was perhaps one of the reasons why the painter Vincent van Gogh, in a mentally unstable phase of his life, longed for much more light, sun and colors to capture them in his works and even moved his place of residence to the sunny south.

So if you want to have a few ambient-heavy Chrono Cross and Star Tropics remixes again, or if you want to tempt all the remixers on OC to make some of these, you can use the picture motifs as a new (tropical sun) light theme after the prophesied battle against darkness is over. ))

Edited 3 hours ago by Master Mi