The buttons are the least of my worries; I never push those buttons anyway. (I have a bookmark to the editor in my bookmarks bar.)
Sorry for complaining a lot in this thread, I guess most of it is just desires that doesn't affect 99% of Snap users (besides the new button css). After all, it's your decision and your work
I actually quite like the buttons. Sure, they're different, have color (unlike the previous look), but they look nice. What @cycomachead is doing, is redefining the website style, so there will be changes to how things look.
We should really discuss what we want and our goals. But, IMO, the project page could have lots to offer, like remixes, better descriptions (that we separately need to fix) and ultimately comments / interactions. What's great about the forum is that it's centered around people. The rest of the community site needs to help encourage that.
In what ways, the outlines or the brighter colors? I've personally always found the gray drab.
There's zero sense of directing folks to try to do certain things.
Admittedly, I don't super love the green color for the buttons when logged in, but I don't want 3 blue buttons either (though maybe solid-vs-outline is enough? I don't know...)
As far as tools: If I'm maintaining the site (so far, me + Bernat), then I am going to optimize for ease and stability. And hopefully, getting others to help.
Re discourse: Separate issues, I think. I've not be using any theme customizations. I think we really need someone else to try to keep the Snap! theming up to date.
I might be able to try to recreate the snap theme that has been on snap for years, but using the up to date discourse, seeing as how I already have a local discourse installation that I can use to test (and I'm not sure how many other people want to go through what I had to in order to get it all working).
Enabling / pulling in themes is easy. I've tried to enable the default discourse dark mode ones too. Though, the way discourse handles both themes and color schemes is a little messy.
Yes please!
An idea I had and turned into a (now broken) javascript bookmarklet was making those buttons the Snap category colors
Dude I'd love to help, given the opportunity
No, that's for of you want discourse to host your forum. A local installation is free, it's just only for linux and wsl (for windows). It just took me so long to get it working in wsl.
If it can be ran on Linux, it can be ran on ChromeOS with varying levels of difficulty
I'm not sure about chromeos, since it uses over 2GB of ram.
And? Ram isn't decided by the operating system
Well the cloud software is open source — what we don’t have is great ways to training folks to work on it, but there’s GitHub issues of lots of stuff that we need.
But yeah installing discourse is a pain. And honestly so is the actual snapcloud too.
Oooh I meant working with the main page not Discourse
Well, chromeos is usually on chromebooks, which usually have very little ram.
Neat. Thanks for the screenshot.
Yeah, I'm not totally opposed to something like this. But we have 10 category colors, so figuring out which is "primary" and secondary and so on is tough.
and we also have to be careful about rules around having enough contrast between foreground/background colors. Some categories would need white text, some would be black text. So that might be weird.
I specifically chose those because they looked good with white text. I didn't do one for "Followed projects" because that button didn't exist at the time