Ruud

ruud@friendica.world

I am Ruud from The Netherlands.
I run Fediverse instances like Friendica.World, Mastodon.World, Lemmy.World and others.
See our foundation's website for a list: fedihosting.foundation

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We're continuing investigation to the performance issues, you can follow and react here: https://lemmy.world/c/friendicaworld

Ruud

9 months ago

Ruud
9 months ago

Should we make the Bookface theme the site's default for friendica.world?
Or should we leave it at the standard 'frio' theme and let users decide for themselves.

I'm just thinking users might not know about the Bookface theme. And in my opinion it makes the site more user-friendly.

Reply with your thoughts!

(In the screenshots, you'll see I chose green as today's accent color for the theme.. don't worry, that's not the default 😀 )

Default:

Bookface:

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skribe

in reply to Ruud 9 months ago

Bookface appears to run faster for me. That's a bonus, if it's universal. However, it looks less like FB, which some might find off-putting. My opinion is to try it and see how it goes. We can always change back.

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gargle

in reply to Ruud 9 months ago

#bookface confuses me. Is it a #theme or a theme #customisation? When I go to Settings, Display Settings, Themes I only find the themes #Frio and #Vier. Theme Customisation is the only place afaik where bookface is mentioned. It offers a choice between three bookface appearances; auto color mode, dark, and light. Am I looking in the wrong place?

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Ruud

in reply to gargle 9 months ago

Bookface is a customisation of the Frio theme. So yes, you find it under the Theme Customisation.

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Nathan

in reply to Ruud 9 months ago from RaccoonForFriendica

@Ruud from my five seconds of testing: it looks much nicer on mobile and fixes Frio's weird tag spacing issues. I'd like to give it a go on desktop before I make a determination for myself, but it's looking good so far.

Edit: I do wonder why the logo is upside down though

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Petra

in reply to Nathan 9 months ago

Haha, I also have the impression the logo is upside down but actually it's still the same. The coloured space and the white space/yellow space both form an "f", one the right way round and one upside down. I never noticed, until I changed the theme.

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Nathan

in reply to Petra 9 months ago

@Petra @Ruud right you are! Interesting that I perceived it as upside down!

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Adam

in reply to Ruud 9 months ago

@Ruud There's obviously some personal preference at work here but I think that making BookFace the default theme (err.. style) is a good idea. For me, it definitely was part of the reason I went from playing around with Friendica to moving here. It really just looks much more modern than the stock Frio theme.

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Sunshine

in reply to Ruud 9 months ago

I'm down to trying out a new theme!

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Anders Nicolaysen

in reply to Ruud 9 months ago

I've switched to Bookface and once you are used to it it feels better and cleaner so I'd put my vote for it as the default theme.

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Fosca Fimiani

in reply to Ruud 9 months ago

It can be a nice idea to get closer to those people that still use just Facebook, it could be nice to do A/B tests and see how people react

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gargle

in reply to Ruud 9 months ago

I put my vote for it as the default theme. I've switched to Bookface auto color mode right after your posted your question. It does indeed feel better and cleaner. I especially like the bigger counters for the comments, shares, quotes, likes and dislikes.

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Signhard Hammer

in reply to Ruud 8 months ago from RaccoonForFriendica

@ruud user-friendly should always be default. Us tech nerds will find out how to change things to our liking.

Do you know if any development is on a official Friendica app on android like Pixelfed has a app?

I tried Raccoon, which is fine but if it replaces facebook it needs facebook features which imo is events and big groups. I can't seem to find out how to make a event on raccoon, may not be supported.

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