In response to our users' feedback regarding the forum's current theme, I am pleased to announce that we are now beginning to trial a replacement! Our new theme - blanko_fes - features a modern, sleek design, a more comfortable mobile experience, visual consistency with our other sites, and a number of small quality-of-life improvements. As is usually the case with major visual overhauls around here these days, virtually all credit for this effort goes to
Blanko, with a little bit of assistance from Parsifal and my not-so-humble self.
Here are a couple of screenshots to give you an idea:
Mobile (index page):
Desktop (creating a new thread):
While we're fairly confident that this is an overall huge improvement to the FES browsing experience, we would like to hold back for a moment and allow our community a chance to have their say and provide feedback before we roll this out as the default. Chances are things won't be perfect out of the box - there will certainly be tweaks and adjustments to be made here and there. For the time being, we are making it available as an opt-in thing - if you'd like to help us with testing, it would be greatly appreciated.
If you'd like to start using the theme now, you can do so by going to the
Look and Layout area of your profile settings and switching the current profile to
blanko_fes. If you'd like to post any feedback, make suggestions or request additional features, please do so via
Suggestions & Concerns, as per usual. I will also monitor the comments on this announcement for any questions that you don't feel merit a whole thread of their own.
We hope you enjoy this new theme and, as always, thank you for flying with FES.