I’ve been working on a new theme for the community forum/hub to bring a little bit of freshness and life to the skin that we have right now.
Whilst tweaks and changes are being made you can enable this theme by clicking:
Avatar -> Username -> Preferences -> Interface -> Theme -> jMonkeyTheme
Alternatively you can Preview the theme.
Please feel free to let me know your opinions and report any bugs or issues you may have found.
Regards,
Jayfella.
i switched to the new theme. Looks very good. 
Just switched. The new theme looks really good, although I do find the bright orange text on the very dark backgrounds a little jarring - personally I think turning the font brightness down just a little would be a little bit easier on the eyes.
Funny thing I complained about the opposite.
Not for the orange font but all in all I felt it could use some more contrasts (especially the gray tones).
But I also tuned down my monitor brightness to 30% or something, so I already had a native dark theme 
I switched as well, though I must say I prefer the old theme. There’s something about the black and orange combo that makes it look very bright and futuristic-ish. Not something you usually want on a website unless it’s about scifi or something overall colorful. That said, I love the fixed header bar, finally the links won’t be all over the place on mobile anymore.
I again miss the easy links to javadoc and source on the main forum page. It’s the JME page that Ieave open and I use those links to quickly jump to javadoc and github almost daily.
At least they are still on the posts page… but that doesn’t help me in a slack or discord conversation.
Edit: at least it’s a popup instead of a separate page. Still, two clicks are more than one. 
I second that. Like links for ease of use. Maybe if the dropdowns were hoverable to open?
Edit: As a side note, I have never been a fan of dark themes. Were dealing in text and light background with dark text has always been easiest for me to read.
I wouldn’t recommend this for overall site but as an example, the save edit button with gold background and black text pops more than chocolate with white text.
New one looks awesome to me. Good to have choices. I like how it’s a bit darker.
Well crap, I guess if you go black, you can never go back. The original theme is no longer an option…
I like the new theme, and I agree with @grizeldi about loving the fixed header bar.
Nice work @jayfella!
I’ll adjust the orange accents so they’re easier on the eye.
I’ll also put a another direct link button on the right hand side for javadoc @pspeed.
I’ve added the javadoc button. You may need to CTRL+R or something. I also added a subtle hover effect for them. I think it finishes them off nicely.
I’ve muted the orange a little - it seems to “pop” less than the previous color. It’s definitely a step in the right direction.
I changed the navigation colors to green instead of just a darker orange. It suits a monkey-forest theme and gets rid of so much orange everywhere.
github and javadoc buttons need padding.
is there some “make default” date known?
or it gonna be just option forever?
There’s no “date” per se - I use it as my default and if I spot any issues i correct them. If I don’t see any issue within the space of a couple of weeks I’ll probably make it default. It’s not a huge subset of code, and virtually all changes are just CSS - so I don’t consider it something that I should exercise utmost caution with.
One more issue… on iOS the top navigation bar covers the forum controls (home, use preferences, etc). It’s only an issue on my phone, and I don’t have an Android device to test Chrome.
The header menu shouldn’t even be visible on mobile. Are you using “request desktop site”?
I finally found what my gripe with this theme was: the jme logo yellow is nowhere else to be found, so it sticks out in the header quite a bit.
You could either repaint the logo text or add some yellow into the theme.
