Theme colors for different Forums or Forum groups

@Ted S posted:

I've often thought that it would be a nice visual aid if some, or all the forums had theme colors to differentiate their posts in this contextual view.  I.e., posts in the For Sale and Want to Buy forums could be shaded green, Layout construction could be brown, Traditional O could be orange, etc.  That way I know what I'm reading and responding to.

I don’t know if this I possible, but I’ll look into it.

You could also possibly add a flag where Forum readers could alert the moderator if they think a post was started in the wrong Forum, or if the discussion veers in a direction that would make the thread better placed in a different Forum.

Already there, and has been from day one. It’s called “Report Reply”.

Some of us are colorblind.

@Greg2 posted:

Some of us are colorblind.

In the Recent Posts area, how could the topic areas be differentiated to make it usable for you?  Maybe roll the curser over the topic title and it shows which forum?

I personally think what the OP suggests would be great.  This would help keep me from embarrassing myself by clicking on a Recent Posts topic thinking it is a 3R-traditional forum issue when in fact it was in the 2RS forum.

I took a look at this to see if forum color-coding could be done. The answer is,"Yes, but... "

All of the colors, page layouts, and fonts used in this forum are contained within a "Theme" file. It is a huge data file containing several hundred setup, page, color, font, menu, and display parameters. In order to change the colors on an individual forum, I would have to make a new theme file for that forum, change the color setups, and set just that forum to use the new theme. I would have to do that for every forum here! It would be a monumental task and it would make the back-end administration of the forums a nightmare.

So while the answer to the OP's question is technically "Yes", the design time it would take to make it happen, and the on-going problems it would create for us in the back-end, make it one of those projects where the end doesn't justify the means.

I'm sorry.

Could the "Recent Posts" column on the right of the screen be modified to show a third line... the forum it is located in, perhaps between the thread title line and the "1 hour ago" line?

I like the idea of the recent posts having the sub-forum name, that would keep me out of trouble at times.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

I like the idea of the recent posts having the sub-forum name, that would keep me out of trouble at times.

A number of us have been suggesting/asking for just that for some years, but Rich apparently has now been able to convince CROWDSTACK to add it.

@gunrunnerjohn posted:

I like the idea of the recent posts having the sub-forum name, that would keep me out of trouble at times.

I'm in on this, also. If that change isn't possible, then a sticky header on the forum page. Clicking on the recent post takes you to the last reply, and you have to scroll to the top of the page to see what forum you're reading the post in.

@John H posted:

I'm in on this, also. If that change isn't possible, then a sticky header on the forum page. Clicking on the recent post takes you to the last reply, and you have to scroll to the top of the page to see what forum you're reading the post in.

You mean like this?  That would be good...

If the subject of a thread grabs your interest, why does it matter which forum it is in?

Sorry, but that makes no sense to me at all.