Theme-a-month?

Eric Chadwick

Should we change up the site theme once a month?

Vanilla won't allow us to provide a list of skins for users to pick from. But we can easily swap the colors site-wide, as often as we wish. I'm thinking we try a rotating set of themes, switched once a month. What say you?

Any ideas for color schemes you would like? The wiki has a few examples of past themes.

Here's the April Fools theme, in case you missed it:

throttlekitty

I'm on the fence. It's a neat idea, but confusing to people who don't visit regularly, and potentially confusing if any style changes layouts along with colors.

Eric Chadwick

I don't suggest changing the layout. Unless it's an improvement of some sort, something that's meant to be persistent. The skins would be merely different color palettes.

Joopson

I think it's a nice idea as long as none of them are terrible and gaudy. Which I'm sure would be the goal anyway. 

Eric Chadwick

The goal would be simply to change things up a bit.

But hey, if people don't want it then I'll keep quiet.

Dataday

Its a tough one. Changing the forum's color scheme too often might actually drive some people away, thus the desire for optional themes. However if thats not possible, perhaps some kind of middle ground. For example, one month out of the year is Greentooth Month or whatnot.  April makes the most sense due to PC's starting point.

Could always tie it in with some art contest regarding retrograde art, rewards can be as simple as forum titles or badges. Basic community level stuff.

2Cents.

leilei

It really sucks that Vanilla isn't flexible enough for basic client-side theme functionality for being such "modern" commercial-grade board software.

ah well.  To Stylish it is!

pior

It's a tough one - on one hand it sounds quirky and kind of fun, but on the other hand I personally wouldn't really see the point of it at all (besides changing the theme during specific events throughout the year, like having fun xmas or Halloween themes for instance. These would be awesome !).

So as far as I am concerned I would vote no - also  because being distracted by a forum theme changing for no reason is a negative.

Now that said, knowing that the theme can be changed so easily is great - can't wait to see the you guys test out cool stuff ! Not seeing any avatar pictures during April 1st was surprisingly pleasing, so maybe some similar things can be tested semi-regularly.

almighty_gir

nah, save it for special occasions

Eric Chadwick

theme-a-day, yes!

sacboi

Yeah a bit of fun couldn't hurt!  

The maker knows, sure could use a shot in the arm silly 'shenanigans' every once in a while, especially nowadays with an exponentially increasing quantity of faecal matter worldwide hitting the fan.

...besides a pretty cool idea as well, I'm in. But open it up too encompass both digital and traditional works...my 2¢

rooster

I'll let my avatar speak for where I stand

EarthQuake

Special occasions perhaps, but I don't think changing once a month would be a good idea. Visual language takes a certain amount of time to get comfortable with, and I don't want to have to re-learn it every month, even if the layout remains the same.

User selected would be cool so it's a shame that is off the table.

MrHobo

I really like the idea of special theme days or if that's too much work, maybe something seasonal?

Asura

Holiday themes would be cool. Like a week for Vday, Xmas, Halloween etc.