Forum Updates of Forum Theme

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  1. Dave Deviluke
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    As there are only a few choices of Forum themes, would it be possible to add more?
    Note: I am currently using Black Responsive

    Certain existing themes such as Night Style have questionable colors combination which makes it harder to read the forum stuff

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    Example of Xenforo 2 themes (Royals using Xenforo 1)
    Free version - https://xenforo.com/community/resources/discord-theme.7791/
    Paid version - https://xenfocus.com/styles/titan/
    *As I am suggesting a paid version, I would be willing to pay the fee if this theme can be added to the current forums
     
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    Hey Dave,

    do you have any Xenforo 1 theme recommendations as well?

    I don’t think our Forum is compatible with Xenforo 2 themes atm. I will ask our Web Dev tho.
     
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    My bad, think I remember wrongly for the Xenforo version we are using currently

    For Xenforo 1, probably something like this
    Free version - https://www.themehouse.com/xenforo/1/themes/drift-dark
    Paid version - https://xenforo.com/community/resources/platform-xenfocus-com.2339/

    From https://xenforo.com/community/resources/categories/styles-1-x.29/
     
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    I desperately want us to not maintain several themes once we migrate to XenForo 2. It is a pain in the backside and causes a myriad of tiny problems because each theme needs to be micromanaged and modified separately to make things play nice (you probably remember instances, possibly affecting yourself, when someone couldn't see a certain thing on the forum and it turned out that the culprit was a certain theme that I hadn't modified specifically for that purpose).

    For the same reason I really, really don't want to micromanage even more themes when we remain on the current version of the forum.
     
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    good times :')

    lf > xenforo 2 update that was promised before dave and i were even forum mods and stonewalled at least half of what we could do
     
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    I think the whole UI of the forum should be updated. Gives me a very old & outdated vibe. Certainly, there are better options and new tools out there that can make the user experience much better on the forum.
     
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    As Chok has already given an answer, moving this to closed.

    The forum could be modernized, however as both player and staff, there's very little on the player side that I find is lacking. I'd be more excited for proper staff features. For example, market threads shouldn't need to be moderated by a physical person for bumping rules, and support threads should have a form to fill out, or an entire new ticket system should be made.
     

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