Forum:New darker and more eye friendly theme.

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After having a discussion about several atrocious articles on Halo Nation I was wondering if Halopedia could use a more eye friendly theme, with larger text size and a darker background making it easier for the readers to browse the site and thus increase the number of people that use the site.--The Master Builder (talk) 15:44, 4 March 2016 (EST)

From what I have gathered, most casual readers would prefer Halopedia to have a darker theme and I tend to agree. As someone who frequents Halo Nation quite a lot, I have to say their darker theme is more visually appealing than ours. However, changing our theme would be a monumental task, since tons of templates, user pages, and etc. are currently formatted to have dark text rather than light text. I'm not saying we couldn't do it, I'm just saying it would be a huge task to change all of that to fit a darker theme. I'm open to ideas.--Spartacus ^{Talk • Contribs} 19:13, 4 March 2016 (EST)

We could at least increase the font size, which wouldn't require much effort.--The Master Builder (talk) 19:28, 4 March 2016 (EST)

That's fine with me, the text is a little small. For users who prefer the current text size though, I'm not sure there would be a way to override it.--Spartacus ^{Talk • Contribs} 19:53, 4 March 2016 (EST)

If it ever gets darker, I'd appreciate the possibility to keep the current background. For the font size I don't have an opinion. Imrane-117 (talk) 02:03, 5 March 2016 (EST)

I kind of prefer the lighter theme and think that Halo Nation's looks too "trying to be edgy", so if the switch were put ahead then I'd also like an option to choose our own theme preferences. Tuckerscreator^(stalk) 02:08, 5 March 2016 (EST)

I've always preferred a classic dark text on a light background on websites. Besides, other prominent wikis like Wikipedia and Wookieepedia have managed perfectly well without a "darker and edgier" theme. But I do agree that the text is a little bit small on our current theme. I always have the scale for this site set at 110% which makes it just the right size. --Jugus (Talk | Contribs) 11:29, 6 March 2016 (EST)

I agree. I prefer the lighter color and too be honest, most of the people that would use HN over Halopedia just because of the color aren't going to go out of their way to go through the process of selecting a background color unless we make it easily accessible. And I agree with the larger text. Maybe just a bit smaller or around the same size as Wikipedia would be good. --NightHammer^{(talk)(contribs)} 11:45, 6 March 2016 (EST)