DevTracker

[Xeevis]

Considerable amount of forum-goers expressed concerns about how these forums look and behave.

Major concerns:

• Signatures get in the way (and disabling them all is an overkill for some)
• White text on dark background is uncomfortable to read
• Cross-fading background images are munching on CPU/batteries and/or are distracting
• And more ...

Possible solutions:

1. Adjust current theme
   • Pros: Easy to do
   • Cons: Affects everyone and finding the glove that fits everybody is hard, updates to theme would need to be hand-merged.
2. Add several themes
   • Pros: Gives selection of different themes for users to pick from
   • Cons: Time consuming maintenance (all themes would need to be hand-merged and updated)
3. Client-side userscript (addon)
   • Pros: Client-side, per-user customization, everyone has full power to customize the entire site, no maintenance issues
   • Cons: Browser compatibility

I went with number 3,
So meet Em-8ER Forums Dashboard!

Features:

• Fully customizable: Since the code is client side, it's open for modification. You can change appearance of any element on the forums. (You can ask for coding help if necessary )
• Background states: Slideshow (default), Disabled, Static Image, Random Image
• Collapse signatures: Large signatures will be partially hidden and will expand to full size after click.
• Message font and background color changing (with several popular preset styles)

• Reusing existing XenForo classes for native look and slim code
• Settings persist in a browser
• Autoupdater to new script versions

Installation:

1. Install Tampermonkey addon for your browser (Desktop Firefox/Chromium)
   • For Firefox on Desktop you can use GreaseMonkey addon
   • For Firefox on Android you can use Unified Script Injector addon
   • (You should be able to use any UserScript addon as long as it supports GM API and ES6 template literals)
2. Go to EFD repository and hit install
   
   
   
   
3. Extension will ask for confirmation so just hit install the second time (before installing any user scripts you should always check the source code for malicious code, but you can take my word that this one is safe )
   
4. All set! Now you can just go to https://forums.em8er.com and use one of 2 places to access configuration dialog
   
   Logged in users can use User Panel:
   
   
   
   
   Otherwise link is also available at the bottom of the page:
   
   

Known issues:

• When translucent background is used, collapsed signatures aren't faded
• Browser might need to be hard refreshed (ctrl + shift + r) to make EFD configuration window show.

Change log:
2.2.1 - Fixed "tweaks" checkbox
2.2 - Added optional various tweaks based on popular suggestions

• Home button on top navigation links to main site em8er.com instead of forums
• Replaced scaled-down logo with black background with properly sized logo with transparent background
• Fixed styling of pager on devtracker + added pager at the bottom of the devtracker page

2.1 - Changed supported domain from old emberthegame.com to new em8er.com (script will no longer work on older domain)
2.0 - Rewritten from scratch to achieve cross-platform GM compatibility

• Now supports daddy GreaseMonkey on Firefox Desktop
• Now supports Unified Script Injector on Firefox Mobile
• Dropped GM_registerMenuCommand and menu item in favor of on-page elements
• Minor bug and consistency fixes

1.3 - Added translucent option to background color, fixed fade effect on default background, fixed config dialog not loading properly when closed/reopened without reload
1.2.1 - Fixed collapsed signature fade effect to mimic background color
1.2 - Improved signature collapsing, will now display 3 rows with rest faded to hidden. Clicking the faded area will reveal entire signature. Short signatures are exempted from collapsing.
1.1 - Implemented support for presets. Added Discord and Firefall forums color presets

Roadmap:

• Improve background styles (+ stretch goals)
  • Slideshow - Allow to set duration and speed (+ change implementation from JS to CSS transitions with better performance)
  • Static image - Allow to select which image to show (+ support custom URLs)
  • Random - Allow to specify interval when change occurs (+ prevent repeating)

Hope this helps, let me know if it works for you, if you faced issues or would like to see something added.

 

[Grummz]

Nice artwork and concept.
Chainlink? I guess it's universal.
Looks to be armored, not an organic morph.
I'm taking that EM-8ER is a frozen planet.
Seems to be a take on the Arana. "We’ve seen some in chains and some kind of holographic tagging or restraints". This could be interesting.
And the Enshigi* seem to be some sort of Galactic Enforcer. How dare they hold us hostage and tell us how or where we can go. Kill'em all I say.

The Enshigi are cold hearted bastards.

 

[Grummz]

Its pronounced sort of like She-Who...but its more complex than that. I'll see if I can get a recording made. Its not an easy to pronounce language.

 

[Grummz]

oh that's cool.

edit: when's the event?

I'm going to have @Ronyn plan it out

 

[Ronyn]

I believe it is pronounced like.. "Say Wha?"..
heh. kidding.