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Welcome Back! (again)

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Re: Welcome Back! (again)

#46 Post by edbarx »

It is a great relieve that the forum returned, however, as I said earlier, something must be done to allow all those who do not enjoy a good eyesight, to be able to comfortably use the forum. The colour scheme used, is made of the shades of the same colour, and this is not helping in demarching clearly the different parts of the forum. Moreover, the chosen colour is almost white greatly increasing eye stress and fatigue. Note that a white background and any shade appromixating white, is far from ideal as a background.

Please provide an alternative.
Thanks.
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#47 Post by Hadret »

Mez wrote:
Hadret wrote:It's good to have you back! ^_^

Maybe a favicon as an celebration? (:
Your wish is my command :D
Thank you very much! ^_^

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#48 Post by kevin_hu »

Well done!!

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#49 Post by oswaldkelso »

I instinctively cheered, then thought whats going on, why are the avitars on the right and the blue thing :shock: Welcome back I'm sure I adjust.
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#50 Post by fvs »

Welcome Back!
Would miss this forum.
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#51 Post by edbarx »

Like everyone, I would like to express my most sincere thanks to all those involved in restoring the fora. Like the great majority, it was quite a shock for me when I read that the fora could be gone forever. However, that would not have been enough for me to quit using Debian. I know that without help Debian might pose some challenges, but these are very minimal to what ealier users used to endure.

Please take my earlier criticism with a pinch of salt because, sometimes, especially when I am overtired, my eyesight and probably my visual processing, are simply, terrible.
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#52 Post by JWJones »

Man, am I glad it's back! (Preparing list of questions...) :mrgreen:

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#53 Post by Pick2 »

Yeaaa ! We're all back !
I had felt a great disturbance in the force , like so many voices all going quiet ... :lol:
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#54 Post by panas »

edbarx wrote: however, as I said earlier, something must be done to allow all those who do not enjoy a good eyesight, to be able to comfortably use the forum. The colour scheme used, is made of the shades of the same colour, and this is not helping in demarching clearly the different parts of the forum. Moreover, the chosen colour is almost white greatly increasing eye stress and fatigue. Note that a white background and any shade appromixating white, is far from ideal as a background.
Please provide an alternative.
Anyone can choose the best for hes eyes, see my signature
for details.

The use of more styles by default here gives more unnecessary job to the admins.
For each single style change the have to do it 2 times.
From an admin point of view i would not recommend it.

Here is the link to your style chooser,
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php? ... 18#p225209
and here is an example on using mods here without asking from the admins
to mess with the code
http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=33749

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#55 Post by anxious »

Nice board! And a place to iggy people. Excellent.
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#56 Post by edbarx »

industrialpunk wrote:So, did you guys find out how the site security got breached? A little social engineering?
I have a hypothesis as to how an admin password got compromised. :) I suspect that an admin or moderator having access to an administrative password and user name, may have been using Windows to do his/her administrative job. A keylogger could have easily stolen the password passing it to the attacker.
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#57 Post by derwalroszsagt »

Thanks for all the hard work in getting the site up again. Your dedication is really appreciated by neophytes like me.
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#58 Post by kce »

I just wanted to thank the fine folks who put their time and effort in to getting these forums back up and running. I think they are an important part of the community and its glad to see them in a full recovery (unlike bsdforums.org :( ).
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#59 Post by lolanoob »

Please change the look. kthanxbai

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#60 Post by vtel57 »

Great job on getting the Debian Users Forums back up so quickly. Your Prosilver default phpBB theme is just fine. :)

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#61 Post by sunrat »

Nice work on the speedy recovery. I like the new theme. 8)
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#62 Post by debil »

lolanoob wrote:Please change the look. kthanxbai
C'mon... Even if they did, somebody will think it sucks. It's an endless road. Use the scripts mentioned or just adjust. I'm not a huge fan of blue, but this isn't bad at all after a while. And anyway, the content is what matters after all.
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#63 Post by BioTube »

Not everybody uses Firefox. I get extremely annoyed when people get that arrogant.
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#64 Post by debil »

BioTube wrote:Not everybody uses Firefox. I get extremely annoyed when people get that arrogant.
I understand that. My intention was not to appear arrogant. I was a bit irritated by lolanoob's whining about the new looks when I wrote what I wrote. I should've added something along the lines "try to figure out how to change the look of the web sites when I use <insert browser here>" to my post but I didn't come to think about it at the time.

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#65 Post by vtel57 »

Maybe the Admins could install a couple more phpBB3 Styles. It's very easy to do. This would give folks options. Here's a nice Styles site:

http://www.phpbb3styles.net/
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