Seeking Feedback On My New Site

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Ok, ok, very interesting. So that I guess is giving me a transparent background? When I am light mode, it blends in with white BG and same with dark mode.

EDIT: I fixed it! Added this to color definitions:

$dark-theme-ins: #3a3b3c;
$light-theme-ins: #f0f2f5;
$tag-bgs: dark-light-choose($light-theme-ins, $dark-theme-ins);

Add this to the :root { section:
--tag-bgs2: #{$tag-bgs};

Added this to the .discourse-tags { a { area in the other .scss file:
background: var(--tag-bgs2) !important;

Thank you guys so much for getting me there, haha. Good 6hrs of my life wasted on some light/dark mode tag background colors. Nice.

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Slow again in Oregon at 5:30pm. ~22 seconds to load forums.gonomad.me

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Dang, really? This is the optimal time to test that, tbh. Peak hours where the server is hosted. Especially on a weekend.

Any of you here happen to be online to see if slow again for you? @Lilly @bryce

Or anyone who said it was fast earlier, haha? @jimkleiber @Heliosurge @MikeNolan @Arkshine

I canā€™t really test it myself because itā€™s always been fast for me.

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I noticed like 2 or 3 seconds before loading, but now itā€™s fast.

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Still loads fine for me, no significant delays

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Had a long load time here (probably close to a minute), but I am on my mobile data ATM. (Though everything else loads quicklyā€¦)

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It was about 10-12 seconds for me on mobile.

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slow.

can you please not @ me unless it is something that specifically concerns me in particular, or if replying directly? thank you.

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Just for note FKB Pro - Social theme is contains custom color variables.
dark-light-choose()

Here you can follow the pattern.

The only difference is, these are connects with theme settings so you can modify it with settings. This is why it use this format #{$setting_name} and not HEX color codes.

But you can add new ones in your fork which uses HEX as you wish.

Add these to after line 14:

$dark-theme-tags-bg: #3a3b3c;
$light-theme-tags-bg: #f0f2f5;

After line 20:

$tags-bg: dark-light-choose($light-theme-tags-bg, $dark-theme-tags-bg);

After line 27:

--tags-bg: #{$tags-bg};

etcā€¦

Then you can change the current background here in your fork:

to :arrow_down_small:

background: var(--tags-bg);
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Some raw feedback. Please note that by itā€™s nature, Iā€™m focussing on the things that I think need improvement, that means it might come across as negative, which isnā€™t the intention :hugs:

I find the homepage extremely negative in tone. I know itā€™s a privacy forum, so a lot will be about breaches etc. But seeing various headlines like this

Outlook Is The Latest Data Aggregation Service From Microsoft

Ever use Microsoftā€™s Outlook e-mail service? You might want to re-think it or change e-mail providers!
feels excessively focussing on the negative.

Iā€™d make sure to align the visual styles of your homepage and your community homepage. Use the same logo and colour scheme etc.

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Iā€™d rename the category ā€œforumsā€, it feels odd to have a ā€œforumsā€ category on your forum. Probably rename it to something more like ā€œDiscussionā€ or ā€œPrivacyā€ etc.

I donā€™t see a privacy policy or T&Cs, which feels strange. Even if you arenā€™t storing anything, make that explicit.

And in general, community management wise, Iā€™m missing some Call to Actions.
What is your expected audience, what should they be discussing, why should be be discussing it here?

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Donā€™t worry about that; break my heart into pieces! I want the most cruel, brutal feedback, haha. Anything to improve!

I do have a Dark/Light mode in mind for the blog home page like the forums have. See, the strange thing for me is that, I do have Light mode set as default on the forums, but even in a private tab and not logged into an account, it still always shows in Dark mode for me, so at this point, I just assumed it was defaulting to Dark mode somehow still. Glad to know that isnā€™t the case. Not sure why it wonā€™t default to light mode for me, though. No browser extensions turned on either that would make it Dark mode. This happens on mobile and Desktop for me. Weird.

Logo-wise, I can definitely do that. The laptop logo is for mobile-only on the forums, but I suppose it would be good to be consistent on the blog home page for Desktop.

I actually have this pointed out in the FAQ page, but I can maybe make a website footer on the forums and link that stuff there?

Good point. How do you recommend I go about this? Should I put this stuff in a site footer? A post? Etc

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Discourse actually comes with built in functionality for TOS and Privacy, if you undelete those topics, they are automatically linked in various places, see e.g. the about page from Meta:

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This is a wide topic :slight_smile: Feverbee has some good pieces of advice:

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I think you have to fill the company name setting for those topics to appear.

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EDIT: Nevermind, figured it out with:
@media screen and (max-width:767px) property (assuming thatā€™s the right width to use for mobile).

Thanks a ton! Not sure if this is still in your realm, but about the logoā€¦any idea how I would have it moved to the right (as shown in vid, so it lines up with the Forums logo), but not get messed up on mobile? For Desktop, I have padding set to 0px 0px 0px 288px so that it is pushed to the right and looks fine. However, on mobile, itā€™s cut off now. Video example below:

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It really isnā€™t, sorry :slight_smile:

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Iā€™ll try this because, yeah, I donā€™t see those topics on my Forums, even deleted ones. Do I do that on the /wizard URL?

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You can also search for the setting. Iā€™m not a fan of re running the wizard.

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Oh, nice. All I had to do was add a name at company name setting.

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My apologies was away last weekend.