Forum frontend changes
Hey y'all,
Been working on the forum frontend design a bit, I hope you like the changes that have been implemented.
The changelog more or less goes as:
Visual hierarchy, everywhere
Room names (THE FOYER, THE SWITCHBOARD...) are now proper headers - bigger, bolder, with the > prompt and an underline. You can actually find your way around the index at a glance now.
Forum and topic titles are cream, navigation is green, and the small stuff (dates, "by whoever", stats labels) has stepped back into the shadows where it belongs. Three layers: what you click, what you read, what you glance at.
Section headers got the // TERMINAL_COMMENT treatment - WHO IS ONLINE, STATISTICS, and friends now know their place.
Readability
One coherent type scale across the whole board instead of everything shouting at the same volume.
Post text got more breathing room (line spacing), and signatures are now uniformly small and quiet regardless of what's in them.
Metadata text lifted from murky gray to something you can actually read against the black.
A hundred small fixes
Buttons, dropdowns, and search boxes now share one consistent size and actually line up with each other.
Topic icons no longer sink to the bottom of their rows.
Checkboxes and radio buttons have their X and * marks centered again.
Pagination numbers are dark on the green boxes instead of white-on-green invisible.
The navbar reads ACP | MCP instead of the mysterious ACP ¡ MCP (font change collateral from June — the old font made ¡ look intentional).
~ Board index — because the board index is home, and home is ~.
Search boxes got a green frame.
Footer tidied up and brought onto the same scale as everything else.
Mobile
Topic lists no longer get cut off on narrow screens.
Known quirk: the bottom bar on mobile collapses the links into icons and a … menu - that's intended behavior I'm still tuning. If something looks off on your phone, post it here.
As always, spotted something broken, misaligned, or unreadable? Reply here or yell in #lobby.
Half of today's fixes came from exactly that kind of feedback.
