Introducing the NodeBB 0.7.0 Persona preview

psychobunny

haha I'm still updating stuff

LeeM

First impressions I was like, erm I prefer how it was .... but now I like it a lot.

My only thoughts are that when I first discovered NodeBB it was its usual category layout that gave me the WOW feeling, it looked completely different from every other forum software I'd seen before.

So using this new style make it look a lot like other types (is this a good thing?), though of course you've added far superior styling and little touches like the "posts quotes" in the right column, so although it is similar it is still way better than anything else

psychobunny

thanks! well I haven't actually written the OP yet, but the point of this theme is to be the "skeleton" theme. ie. it's as barebones as possible so it makes it easier to build on top of it

the other themes will still be supported

hek

Cool!

Shaun

Is that what this new theme is? Looks very nice, guys.

jarey

@psychobunny really like the changes on mobile. Have to see it on desltop, i'm sure it is impressive too there. Great work, congrats!

Edit: i would change on mobile the menu behaviour, closing the lateral menu when an option is selected, seems easier for me.

frissdiegurke

pretty cool theme, but surely missing important features if you're going to keep this here:

direct link to latest post within /recent and /unread
quoting
voting

make sure you don't forget about them

update coming shortly!

take your time you're the boss...

mrkpatchaa

Very nice.
Is this a new theme ? I've upgraded to persona preview but I don't see the same

Reik

Classic feel, yeah! It looks very nice, but '3 dots in column' button (for sharing posts) should be bigger imo . I can hardly click it .

a_5mith

Biggest issue I've found is on mobile, open a chat with someone, the side nav goes, but doesn't move back over, so you can't see the chat. Other than that, as above, needs quote and reply etc, but you probably knew that.

psychobunny

Post updated, and we've already got a bunch of bug reports XD

This is the first iteration and so expect bugs

... and assign them to @baris

julian

@Reik said:

I can hardly click it .

Same here, needs a bit of padding, nice catch! Guess I'm not going to be editing any more posts from now on.

psychobunny

Since I'm taking a break from theming for a bit, I'll leave the above issues on the tracker. Feel free to add any there

https://github.com/NodeBB/nodebb-theme-persona/issues/

PitaJ

This theme is so. Amazingly. Awesome.

Shaun

@psychobunny said:

I'll leave the above issues on the tracker.

I really love the responsiveness around here. Excellent work, guys.

Leonardo Galani

This.. is.. SOOO much sexier :3

psychobunny

I would upvote all of you guys but I totally forgot to implement the upvote component. D'oh! (Issued on bug tracker)

codejet

Could use the little expand forum width icon, bottom right corner. I loved the wide view in Lavender.

I think this theme would have eventually ended up in NodeBB anyway.

It's the typical forum look that everyone is so familiar with, but better because its NodeBB.

PitaJ

Is there a drag in for the menu on mobile? If not, that would be cool. I like the material design.

psychobunny

Could use the little expand forum width icon, bottom right corner. I loved the wide view in Lavender.

I want to make this a setting in the user panel instead. Previous behaviour changed the dimensions post-load which made cold loads look a bit wonky at times.

Is there a drag in for the menu on mobile? If not, that would be cool. I like the material design.

There will be, as well as some cool mobile things we have planned (like dragging columns) that will make it into the expanded version of this theme (ie. The "Lavender" of the original "Vanilla")