IMPORTANT POLL: What skin do you use?

[Ben E Lou]

It may sound trivial, but I noticed yesterday that the configurations of our skins really need to be pruned and updated. We have a few that are probably completed unused, too. There really needs to be a time-consuming reconfiguration of how they're set up, with some just going away for good.

(Thread will be opened once the poll is up.)

[DeToxRox]

Lamb.

[daedalus]

there can be only one: sideline green.

seriously, there is a pink theme?

[Alan T]

Day at the Office is all I use.. since 80% of my viewing this board comes at work.

If I could figure out a way to make FBCB look like a spreadsheet, my work day would be complete.

[Noop]

I feel weird without the yellow.

[KWhit]

Day at the Office.

[Logan]

In with yellow. Sideline green is pretty...fuckin hideous.

[Karlifornia]

Sideline green, but I'm thinking of seeing what else is out there.

[Raiders Army]

Yella

[Tasan]

Lets hear it for Habitae! Honestly, I just chose it one day and never changed back, and now when I try a different one the site just doesn't look right. I think I've had this skin since the first day skins became available.

[Izulde]

Yellow for now, but I'm thinking of switching to something else that makes poll results show up better.

[Kodos]

Gotta go with the classic yellow.

[Cringer]

Classic yellow. The wife looks at this board with one of the others and I can't stand it.

I may check out what the others are though, I didn't know there were so many choices.

[Cringer]

I am not sure how A Day At The Office is running #2 right now, I just changed to it and it's horrible.

Maybe it grows on you....

[stevew]

I would be very dissapointed if OSX was removed. I like the simple white and gray.

[Cringer]

I was cool with this habitue skin I am trying out until I saw what a poll looked like. That is crap. I may try it out for a while though, I like some of it.

Flush can be flushed, I don't think my daughter is signing up on FOFC any time soon.

[Izulde]

Yeah I was the same way with habitue until I saw how it uglified the polls.

[Buccaneer]

Cool, I get to say "why would anyone have that pukey yellow skin" like I do every 3 years or so. :)

I go with vb Classic. Blue & Gray, you know.

[SnDvls]

the spud one's kinda funny with all the little chicken nugget people everywhere...and yes I know they are potato people, but they look more like the McDonald's chicken nuggets

[Groundhog]

I would be very dissapointed if OSX was removed. I like the simple white and gray.

Hmmm... Well, I was using A Day In The Office, but I really like the look of this OSX skin.

[Farrah Whitworth-Rahn]

Can we get a skin for the ladies? Maybe in shades of pink and purple with pretty little flowers and hearts and puppies? :D

Until then I'm yellow fellow.

[Crim]

there can be only one: sideline green.

seriously, there is a pink theme?

Ugly.

[Crim]

Day at the Office is all I use.. since 80% of my viewing this board comes at work.

If I could figure out a way to make FBCB look like a spreadsheet, my work day would be complete.

Ugly.

[Crim]

Lets hear it for Habitae! Honestly, I just chose it one day and never changed back, and now when I try a different one the site just doesn't look right. I think I've had this skin since the first day skins became available.


Ugly.

[Crim]

I would be very dissapointed if OSX was removed. I like the simple white and gray.

Ugly.

[Crim]

I was cool with this habitue skin I am trying out until I saw what a poll looked like. That is crap. I may try it out for a while though, I like some of it.

Flush can be flushed, I don't think my daughter is signing up on FOFC any time soon.

Faggoty.

[Crim]

Cool, I get to say "why would anyone have that pukey yellow skin" like I do every 3 years or so. :)

I go with vb Classic. Blue & Gray, you know.

Ugly.

[Crim]

the spud one's kinda funny with all the little chicken nugget people everywhere...and yes I know they are potato people, but they look more like the McDonald's chicken nuggets

Funny, but ugly.

[Crim]

Yellow is the correct answer here, folks.

[MJ4H]

Yellow. But Habitue fucking rulez, too, as I remember.

[Groundhog]

Problem with yellow is that it stands out too much at work.

[Emiliano]

vBulletin and Development. I kinda like Habitue, too.

[stevew]

Man, some of these are heinous. Spud, for instance. That gives me a headache. So does Sideline green.

[daedalus]

i like the font from spud. the colour for it, however, is frightful. the little potato icons are cute.

most of the themes are too damn bright for me. the sideline green has the right dark-vs-light for my eyeball to not hurt. as much. plus, nostalgia is quite, er, nostalgic.

how come some of the themes (specifically sideline green and a couple of others) have a broken "Multi-Quote" icon (it is text instead)? can we get a little sideline love?

[JeeberD]

Yellow. There is ONLY yellow.

[Raiders Army]

IIRC wasn't the original board green? Not the Sideline Green of now, but something else that was more pleasing to the eye.

[hoosierdude]

No matter how many times I select anything but Sideline Green in the CP, it always defaults to SG no matter how many times I change it. Can this be fixed? :)

[Ben E Lou]

Sideline Green is meant to mimic the original style of the board when it was The Sideline. (1999 - Oct. 2000) Yellow is meant to mimic the only style we had when we became FOFC, but used ubb. (Oct. 2000 - Jan. 2003) We purchased vbulletin in January 2003, and skins came shortly thereafter.

[Ben E Lou]

No matter how many times I select anything but Sideline Green in the CP, it always defaults to SG no matter how many times I change it. Can this be fixed? :)

I'm looking into that issue later today, too. We added some metering stuff to the forum footers. I'm wondering if something happened there...

[Alan T]

I am not sure how A Day At The Office is running #2 right now, I just changed to it and it's horrible.

Maybe it grows on you....

I don't think it looks good, that is not the reason it is used. It is the one that looks least like you are forum surfing all day while at the office from further away :)

[Raiders Army]

Sideline Green is meant to mimic the original style of the board when it was The Sideline. (1999 - Oct. 2000) Yellow is meant to mimic the only style we had when we became FOFC, but used ubb. (Oct. 2000 - Jan. 2003) We purchased vbulletin in January 2003, and skins came shortly thereafter.

That's a great piece of history right there. Thanks!

[gstelmack]

FOFC vBulletin v3 for me. Nice and understated and easy to read.

[sterlingice]

Cool, I get to say "why would anyone have that pukey yellow skin" like I do every 3 years or so. :)

I go with vb Classic. Blue & Gray, you know.

I also go with vb classic. It's not flashy like some but it's easy on the eyes.

SI

[cuervo72]

Yellow.

[spleen1015]

My User CP says I am using the Forum default. Which one is that and I will click the box?

[spleen1015]

Found it at the bottom!

Yellow!

[Passacaglia]

What's the difference between vb classic and vb3? I don't see vb classic as an option for me.

Anyway, I use sideline green at home, and vb3 at work -- i used to use day at the office, but the white is too bright, and IMO it's still obvious your surfin the web -- vb3 looks like a professional forum I go on, so I figure if people see it, they'll think I'm on that instead.

[oliegirl]

I voted yellow b/c that is what I had, but after checking out the others, I'm liking the OSX skin...if the colors on the spud skin were better I'd be using that one, those little guys are cute!!!!

Flush has got to go...flush it! LOL :)

[Fidatelo]

Some of the other skins are nice, but it doesn't feel like FOFC if I don't use Yellow.

[RendeR]

Holy hell, how do you people even READ the sideline green version? it hurts the eyes.

The OSX one is decent but the rest are either too fugly and weird or just too much contrast and makes it hard to read.

Yewllow is the only real option here if yer not siting at your desk at work =)

[Buccaneer]

I also go with vb classic. It's not flashy like some but it's easy on the eyes.

SI

Yep and nowadays, that's becoming more important. I would admit that yellow is also easy on the eyes but I have a mental aversion to that color.

[Tasan]

Yeah I was the same way with habitue until I saw how it uglified the polls.

I never realized the polls were screwed up with Habitue until just now. Doesn't matter, I still like it for everything else. To me, its FOFC now.

[Qwikshot]

At the Office, when I'm at the Office...which is a lot.

[MikeVic]

Where's the option "the Caucasian skin I was born with?"

[Lorena]

Problem with yellow is that it stands out too much at work.

Yes, I agree, it's a little too harsh for my eyes.

FOFC vBulletin v3 for me. Nice and understated and easy to read.

I use the same one.

[Axxon]

Man, I sure hope the skin I use, yellow, doesn't go away. ;)

[Scarecrow]

I actually like the colour scheme of Development the best, but cannot use it with the narrow thread boxes.

I am an old schhol person, so it's sideline green for me.

[oliegirl]

Looks like Flush, Spud and Rage are going to be gone...poor little spuddies. Can't we start a campaign to Save the Spuds or something? We could make t-shirts, start an online movement...anyone with me???

:)

[timmynausea]

Lets hear it for Habitae! Honestly, I just chose it one day and never changed back, and now when I try a different one the site just doesn't look right.

That's basically how it's been for me. I think MattJones4Heisman suggested it a long time ago, so I tried it out and now anything else looks bad.

[ISiddiqui]

Yellow. It's a great skin.

[Dr. Sak]

Lamb skin when I even use one.

[MikeVic]

What the hell, Spuds has actual potato people.

[korme]

Aww, huge bummer... Spud was my favorite skin to create...

[korme]

Lets hear it for Habitae! Honestly, I just chose it one day and never changed back, and now when I try a different one the site just doesn't look right. I think I've had this skin since the first day skins became available.

Yea!! That's sweet :D

[korme]

Yeah I was the same way with habitue until I saw how it uglified the polls.

Dude it is easy to fix poll problems

[Kodos]

Viagra?

[korme]

Looks like Flush, Spud and Rage are going to be gone...poor little spuddies. Can't we start a campaign to Save the Spuds or something? We could make t-shirts, start an online movement...anyone with me???

:)

I guess someone (or me) could delve back into changing the scheme to make the colors a bit nicer... remember, I made all these bullshit skins like 5 years ago when I was a teenager.

[Ben E Lou]

I guess someone (or me) could delve back into changing the scheme to make the colors a bit nicer... remember, I made all these bullshit skins like 5 years ago when I was a teenager.The biggest thing that needs to change is that we need to have one parent style (the basic vbulletin would be my suggestion), and have the others come off of that one. Otherwise, any template edits or hacks have to be implemented for every single style, rather than just off of the parent one.

[st.cronin]

Somebody should make a trout skin.

[korme]

Checking all these out made me realize at some point during an upgrade or some such, there a lot of missing icons to most of these..

[Ben E Lou]

Checking all these out made me realize at some point during an upgrade or some such, there a lot of missing icons to most of these..
New functionality was added in 3.6.0, I know. Multi-quote, for example, just wasn't there in the past, so you didn't create buttons for it, naturally.

[Danny]

I use yellow, agreed that the sideline green is awful. I don't know how anyone could use it honestly.

[MizzouRah]

Yellow is mello

[korme]

I suggest we get Simms or someone of that ilk on a mission to clean up slash make better, complete skins... I had good ideas but not many solid products there.

I don't even necessarily know what you mean by 'parent skin', I've been out of the game for so long.

[DaddyTorgo]

i said classic but i meant fofc vbulletin 3 style or wtf ever it's called

[daedalus]

Holy hell, how do you people even READ the sideline green version? it hurts the eyes.theoretically speaking, light-on-dark is technically the easiest scheme on your eyes.

[daedalus]

I guess someone (or me) could delve back into changing the scheme to make the colors a bit nicer... remember, I made all these bullshit skins like 5 years ago when I was a teenager.shorty is NOT a teenager?[/the world]

[Anthony]

i use Day At The Office while at work and Sideline Green when at home, since i've been in the community from the beginning it doesn't feel like FOFC (or whatever we were called in the beginning) without the green.

[Anthony]

to be honest, with us changing locations now woulda been a great time to change the name from FOFC to something more reflective of our status as a premier text-sim forum. not for nothing, there's a lot of people here who don't even play FOF either currently or ever. Front Office Football Central doesn't really begin to explain what this community has evolved to. sucks that no one thought to rename it. nothing against Jim, but a community as huge as this still essentially based on a game that comes out every 3 or so years, a game from a tiny one man operation like Solecismic, its kinda silly. something as bland as "Text Sim Central" woulda been worlds better.

[lordscarlet]

I would be very dissapointed if OSX was removed. I like the simple white and gray.

+10000

Am I the only one that thinks Yellow is hideous?

[flere-imsaho]

Maybe it's just me but "Day at the Office" doesn't really seem all that "under-cover" for surfing at work. I think the default skin is more innocuous.

[lordscarlet]

Maybe it's just me but "Day at the Office" doesn't really seem all that "under-cover" for surfing at work. I think the default skin is more innocuous.

I think OSX is the most "subdued" as far as that goes.

[Drake]

Why aren't more people using Flush?

[MikeVic]

Maybe it's just me but "Day at the Office" doesn't really seem all that "under-cover" for surfing at work. I think the default skin is more innocuous.

Yeah, I don't get it either. A forum is a forum. If people see you on a forum at work, they're either gonna think you're doing research for something at work, or screwing around. It still looks like a forum, no matter how you colour it.

[path12]

I can't believe how many people use the yellow. I use the vbulletin at home and day at the office at work.

[JediKooter]

I've always liked the Sideline green. It doesn't stick out like a sore thumb like the yellow does.

[cmp]

I can't use anything other than yellow, it doesn't look like FOFC without it for me.

[gstelmack]

I think I used to use Yellow, then switched to the FOFC vBulletin when polls stopped working (the bar graphics were missing or screwed up and looked all funky) around the 3.6.0 upgrade, and I've never looked back since.

[sterlingice]

Am I the only one that thinks Yellow is hideous?

I agree with the sentiment but I think they string you up as a witch if you say that around here ;)

SI

[SteveMax58]

I have to say I'm a bit disappointed at the maturity level required to reach page 2 without a single response of..."Fore".

[ISiddiqui]

OperationSports has matured us! It's true!

[hoosierdude]

Still having the issue of Sideline Green staying the dominate skin no matter what choices I make either thru the User Control Panel, or the dropdown selection at the bottom of each page.

Any progress on this? I would love to see the forum with another couple skins I like a lot more. Signing out and clearing cookies do not help as well, help would be appreciated! :)

[Ben E Lou]

Bump. It's look like the vbulletin upgrade is imminent, and we *really* need to scrap the existing skin structure and rebuild some of these from scratch. I'll add a new one or two as well, but we will lose some of the custom ones, at least for a while. Vote if you haven't (although the ones we're keeping seem pretty clear at this point...)

[PackerFanatic]

I use Yellow, but would definitely be up for trying a new one or two. None of the others really jump out at me right now.

[saldana]

Bump. It's look like the vbulletin upgrade is imminent, and we *really* need to scrap the existing skin structure and rebuild some of these from scratch. I'll add a new one or two as well, but we will lose some of the custom ones, at least for a while. Vote if you haven't (although the ones we're keeping seem pretty clear at this point...)


so should i expect to lose my Habitue (total 4 votes)?

[Tasan]

so should i expect to lose my Habitue (total 4 votes)?


Please please please no

[Glengoyne]

I'm an avowed Day at the Office user, but I'm jumping ship to OSX. At least for a while. I wanna see more, but for now this is looking good.