FreeBSD Style (the default style at The FreeBSD Forums)

[grahamperrin]

Looking ahead, will FreeBSD Style (for XenForo) change?

To match the future style for the FreeBSD Project site. <https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/627452> relates.

The header, as currently previewed:

For narrower windows, before and after clicking the hamburger menu button:

 

[smithi]

Looking ahead, will FreeBSD Style (for XenForo) change?

To match the future style for the FreeBSD Project site. <https://forums.freebsd.org/posts/627452> relates.

Should it? I mean, must the forums match the 'official' project website? Even the 'look and feel'?

That would seem to imply some sort of administrative control of the forums by 'the project'. Is that being mooted?

I'm using 'FreeBSD dark' on a smallish android mostly, and I'm mostly happy with how it renders. Starting again would be challenging, especially if heading in the direction of the recent handbook proposals.

Mobile view needs to be more than an afterthought, and for me at least, Xenforo as now configured achieves that.

Here's one that doesn't work:

 

[grahamperrin]

Should it?

April 2021, in brief:

The big FreeBSD banner at the top should be the same as the banner at the top of the FreeBSD site. But because we can't embed it as an iframe (or something similar, due to security constraints, different sites, etc) danger@ copies the banner to various Xenforo directories (not exactly sure where Xenforo keeps these). The banner on the FreeBSD site recently changed but it hasn't been updated on the forums yet.

The full discussion, with some confusion — the first four responses overlooked the context (Feedback (about the Forums)):

FreeBSD Forums header area (above the Forums button) directing readers to oudated content (outdated Handbook, and so on)

At a glance, at least six of the links under Documentation are outdated. https://docs.freebsd.org/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ is an outdated edition of the FreeBSD Handbook; and so on. Please aim for consistency with the main FreeBSD site. Thanks.

forums.freebsd.org

 

[grahamperrin]

Here's one that doesn't work:

True, can you move discussion of The FreeBSD Foundation site to the off-topic subforum? Thanks.

 

[smithi]

April 2021, in brief:

The full discussion, with some confusion — the first four responses overlooked the context (Feedback (about the Forums)):

FreeBSD Forums header area (above the Forums button) directing readers to oudated content (outdated Handbook, and so on)

At a glance, at least six of the links under Documentation are outdated. https://docs.freebsd.org/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/ is an outdated edition of the FreeBSD Handbook; and so on. Please aim for consistency with the main FreeBSD site. Thanks.

forums.freebsd.org

There are several aspects, as I see it: visual and functional style(s) in general; specific presentation formats for different devices; and content correctness, both inherent and linked.

I was referring more to the first two, acknowledging your focus on the latter. I took your initial question to refer more to style, but guess I mistook.

 

[smithi]

True, can you move discussion of The FreeBSD Foundation site to the off-topic subforum? Thanks.

I was pointing to style as an example, not to the content.

Your forum, your rules, smithi out.

 

[grahamperrin]

Your forum, your rules,

Not mine

My off-topic suggestion was clumsily worded, not least because this topic is already in the off-topic subforum. I realised it afterwards but couldn't correct myself until now (day job finished).