Forum Styling General Thread

[Kosheh]

Are you saying that the reason we can't switch to the DYKG on the forums because we don't know what size the content's going to be when it's posted here...?

I've read this over like 10 times and still don't quite comprehend it. What do you mean by "switch to the DYKG" and why is forums emphasized?

Alas, the cruelty of typing half-tired
I forgot the word

"switch to the DYKG on the forums"

as in like, just have the theme available on the forums. For some reason, it sounds like both themes are heavily intertwined with each site's CMS, which...sounds kinda bonkers (but a good kinda bonkers, i swear, like a "that's so complex i can't fathom it right now" kinda bonkers) If that's the case, then I can perfectly see the reason for not porting the DYKG theme.

Also, you keep referring to "them" and "their" theme but you do realize that I manage both forums, right?

I knew this the whole time, and was kinda expecting you to reply to my last post.
It's "them and their" because they're a different community from us. We're not the same community. I wish we could just smush the two together sometimes ):

So basically, you're saying that when I make changes to the VGFacts theme, I would then need to make those same changes over here but I'm really not seeing the utility of doing any of that. Maybe I'm just missing something here though so feel free to explain.

Sure, no problem:

Obviously there's no utility to it. It's a forum theme. It's purely cosmetic. It doesn't have a long-lasting result. The result of it all would be that there would be two forums that look cool as hell instead of just one.
It's like commissioning a body shop to make a cool design on your car. It's not gonna make the car run faster or anything, but it'll turn heads. If that's not your cup of tea and there's bigger fish to fry...uh, that's...fine I guess?

As I said before, if it turns out that both forums' default themes are way too intertwined for such a process to actually work, and making the DYKG theme work on VGR would take a shitton of time and debugging of code to get it to even work correctly, then yeah I guess I understand why getting the DYKG theme ported over here would probably never happen.
...well, there's also the whole thing of two full-blown PHP templates you've gotta wade through to debug and all the work you do on updating the site would require doing it over multiple times. I didn't think about it original, but come to think of it, I can totally understand there, that's a pain in the ass to deal with, too. It was never fun doing that for the themes here on TSR :V

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As I type more here, I feel like I'm trying to have my cake here and eat it too :/