Hey everyone, and welcome to your new and improved Citadel Forums!
As you can see, I finished the
promised redesign, but that's not all. If you go into your User Control Panel (accessed via the dropdown menu from your name at the top), and click on "Board Preferences", you should now notice that there's an option to change the forum theme ("My board style"). Besides the default theme, called
Citadel Green, there's two others to choose from:
Remake SteelThis is our new, FFVII Remake-inspired "black/grey" theme, with stylized Shinra logos for forum/thread icons.
Theatrhythm RedInstead of doing yet another Vincent theme for the color red, I decided to make a cute one inspired by the
Theatrhythm Final Fantasy games.
Please note that I may continue to do some small tweaks and fixes here and there, but nothing major. Additional themes may be added if there is enough demand for them
and if traffic picks up by a good amount.
And to give credit where it's due, all three of these themes are customized versions of
PBTech by PayBas. Customizations and testing were done by me, with some additional testing, general assistance, and advice from Clidus and Cyrus.
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Getting around these new themesThere's some differences between this new layout (and phpBB version) and our previous one, but here's the main issues people might run into.
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Edit post icons are hidden by default - If you need to edit or delete your post, or quote or report someone else, mouse over that post and a set of icons should appear in the upper right. If you mouse over each icon, a description of what it does will appear.
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User Control Panel access - As previously mentioned, the User CP can be found by clicking on your name in the upper left corner of the screen (beneath the main search bar), which brings up a menu. You can also view your profile and log out here.
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Note that these new themes are not the only changes made to the board. A number of other new features have been added as well.
MAJOR NEW PROFILE FEATURES-
Default avatar - All accounts without avatars now have a default one featuring Cloud's silhouette.
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Support for larger avatars - The maximum allowed avatar size is now 100x100 pixels.
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Custom Title - Displays a user title of your choice, which goes under your name in your posts. See the sidebar of my post here as an example.
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User Bio - A larger dedicated area to tell the community more about yourself on your profile page. Unfortunately, bbcode can't be used, but we will try and get it working for the future. See my profile for an example.
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More contact options - With the forums upgrade, contact fields have been added for Facebook, Twitter, Skype, and YouTube, and, in addition, there are now options to add your Xbox Live, PlayStation Network, Miiverse, and/or Steam info. Again, see my profile for an example.
MAJOR NEW FORUMS FEATURES-
User names on the left-hand side in threads - Self-explanatory. Glad to have this sort of layout in place again

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Recent posts on the front page - Instead of visiting individual forums, you can choose to check out the latest updated threads right from the Forums' index page.
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Link back to the Citadel - The Citadel itself can now be accessed directly by clicking on the "Main Site" link near the top of every page.
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Immediate automatic redirection - You will now be immediately redirected back to the thread after making a new post, or editing a preexisting one.
There are some other, smaller changes, but that covers the basics.
If you have any feedback to offer and/or bugs to point out about the new layouts, please do so here. As usual, general feature requests go in
this thread. Thanks, and enjoy
