I’ve started using beehaw a bit more and found the UI was a bit small. I had 2 main goals, outside mimicking a Reddit theme I used to use:
- Make things a bit easier to read - So much small text everywhere. Maybe I’m just getting old.
- Use more of the horizontal space
Some screenshots:
It does have some issues:
- Only tested on 1 resolution/size so who knows how it looks elsewhere
- I mostly only looked at the main page and posts. It doesn’t look quite right in the user settings, profile, comminties, etc.
- Only tested with the darkly-red theme
- I didn’t bother messing with the footers or side bars
- There’s no light/dark theming
I’m not really a web developer so most of my knowledge is from before web devs started using web frameworks, like bootstrap, so this is probably a bit hacky. I’m not positive I’ll continue with the theme but thought it could be interesting for someone else.
The CSS (I’m using Stylus):
@-moz-document domain("beehaw.org") {
body {
background-color: #e6e6e8;
color: #fff;
}
div.container-lg {
max-width: unset;
}
div#app > .navbar {
background-color: #444;
}
h5.mb-0 {
color: #000;
}
.mb-4 {
background-color: #000;
}
.mb-3 .btn-outline-secondary {
color: #444;
background-color: #fff;
}
div.main-content-wrapper div div:not([class]),
/* Main Page */
div.comments
{
background: #fff;
border-radius: 4px;
box-shadow: 0px 1px 5px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.08);
padding: 2%;
}
div.text-muted {
color: #777 !important;
}
ul.small {
font-size: 1em;
}
div.vote-bar.small {
font-size: 1em;
}
/* Thread Preview */
div.post-listing .pr-0 {
max-width: 100px !important;
}
/* Thread Text */
div.post-listing .card {
background: #ddd;
color: #000;
}
div.post-listing .card-body .small {
font-size: 1em !important;
}
div.post-listing .card-body .text-muted {
color: #000 !important;
}
div.post-title a {
color: #369 !important;
line-height: 1;
}
div.post-title h5 {
margin-bottom: 0 !important;
}
/* Thread Seperator */
hr.my-3 {
border-top: 1px solid rgba(0, 0, 0, .2);
margin-top: 0 !important;
}
/*
Comment Related
*/
div.comments .comment:not([class*="mark"]) {
background: #fff;
color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
}
div.comments div[class*="mark"] {
background: #ddd;
color: rgb(34, 34, 34);
}
div.comments .text-muted {
color: #000 !important;
font-size: 0.9em;
}
/* Move the votes and time closer */
div.comments .mr-lg-5 {
margin-right: 0 !important;
}
div.comments .mx-2 {
margin-left: 0 !important;
}
}
Looks interesting.
You could try giving the site a few more orange colours instead of red. You can create custom themes like this: https://join-lemmy.org/docs/en/administration/theming.html
If you can figure out a good theme, I’ll be happy to discuss this with the admin team and we might include it as a selectable theme.
Awesome. Maybe I’ll look into that. Thanks for the info.