Its still rough, but I made a really busy tildes theme
I decided to rewrite this from scratch. You can try it out if you're game.
I wiped out my profile in Chrome the other day and forgot to back up stylus and some other settings for a few extensions. I found an old post where I listed part of a theme I'd started working on, but had since abandoned.
I couldn't find a copy of the ol' Tiltweaks stylus theme, either, so I decided to bring back that old, unfinished gem to get my theme back to roughly where I had it before... then I added a bunch of other crap in.
Anyway, here's the link to a busy screencap.
The two column layout isn't for everybody, but in the brief time I've spent with it, I'm starting to like it.
Just thought I'd share. I'm about 99.6% certain everybody will see it and say, 'gross' :)
It's actually Tilweaks, not Tiltweaks, which might partially explain your difficulty in hunting it down.
But only partially since the link is dead. But luckily I still use Tilweaks! (But unluckily, only v 1.01, it seems.)
I'll export my Stylus themes. I'm not sure what's relevant here, but I only have two themes (Tilweaks and a dracula theme for Hacker News), so it shouldn't be too much to sort out.
Stylus themes
edit: it's back: https://tild.es/q0z
Author of Tilweaks here, I recently deleted the Gitea instance at
git.ebc.li
so that's why the link's dead.I've (probably temporarily) uploaded it to https://gist.github.com/Admicos/61f67d37cd0e0ad9dd494c87ec8fe6b8 while I
procrastinatethink about what to do next. The auto updates will be broken as it was a quick copy paste job, but the theme should still work. Click theRaw
button to install itcc @tomf
nice! this is such a great theme for the site. Thanks for reposting it! :)
Neat, thanks!
awesome! thanks for this! I had it in my history, but like you said, everything is dead. The waybackmachine didn't have anything, either.
its funny -- I had that same HN theme, or at least something very similar, so you including that is golden! :)
Its such a pain to track down userstyles and userscripts again. I think I'm pretty much there, though. Only a couple for sites I don't care about like youtube and discord.
quick edit: double replied, ditched the other one.
This cramped feeling reminds me of why I find it difficult to look at Hacker News for any length of time.
And I think that's interesting because Hacker News doesn't have a lot going on, so it's not exactly "busy." I think the annoyance factor that they share is mostly due to the sea of tiny-font low-contrast fiddly buttons.
High-contrast dark modes really go a long way to improve things imo.
HN is fairly easy to make your own. Its worth doing if you use the site a lot. You'll probably hate my HN, though :)
I second @tomf, making a HN theme is very straightforward and fun. A quick tip wrt. fiddly buttons: try replacing the vote arrows with CSS triangles.
great tip with the CSS arrows! Is yours cleaner than this? :)
Practically identical! I ended up settling on
border-width: 0 5px 8px 5px;
for a more equilateral-ish triangle.awesome! that's way better! Thanks for this
On a big 4K monitor it's actually rather nice, makes better use of all that screen real estate.
Edit: I realized there's another reason I like it this way. It's reminding me of books with the two column layout. We're always scrolling up/down all the time, and it made me wonder what a site that decided to go the other way, right/left, might feel like. I like the idea of just swiping left/right to move from one Tildes page to the next on mobile, and just having them march back and forth the same way with a two column layout on desktop. Turn the infinite scroll into page turning.
It'd give this place a very different 'feel' to other social media sites if it ran along the other axis, that's for sure. I don't even know if I'd like it that way but I would kinda like to try it out that way for a while just to explore the idea.
right! This part is covered with
but it isn't perfect. If the first item on the second column has a preview, it'll jump it up a bit. I'm not great with CSS, but I don't think a workaround will be too difficult.
quick edit: this might do the trick.
That's a fair point, and I don't disagree, but, in my case (with a 4k monitor) I just use a larger font and an unmaximized browser window.
Looks great, don't see how it's busy though. Would love to use it.
Check out https://pastebin.com/raw/uh5MSDk5
There are a few things you may want to change. I have it so it hides post votes until I voted and I also hide all of the votes on comments, which you may not like. Instead of Votes(6) or whatever, it'll say 'Vote' or 'Voted', for instance.
.comment-votes
is hidden for votes on your comments.You'll want to switch up the typefaces in play. I'm using Operator Mono Nerd Font, since I use for almost everything.
Lastly, do a search for
tomf
and replace those with your own name so your nick is highlighted.Give it a swing. I'm not great with CSS... so you'll definitely find quirks :)
Thanks!
if you find anything really goofy, hit me up! Its something I left alone for over a year then spent a little time on again... which is just me being nervous about sharing something I'm not totally confident with. haha
Hm, the pastebin is private?
derp. its fixed.
Okay, so I checked it.
Well, I like it overall, but for some reason there's text missing on buttons and stuff. Is that on me or?
for the vote buttons, the votes are hidden until you vote it up. Comment votes are also hidden. You can change
--vote-color: #F8F8F2;
to--vote-color: #057191;
to get the post karma back.For comments, search for
article.topic-full menu button[data-ic-src*="/vote"]
and remove that and the following two..comment-votes
is your own, so remove that part if you want to see votes for your own.I'm not anti-karma or whatever, but it was something I played with a while ago and really liked.
Video for anyone interested
quick edit: might be worth adding this to make code blocks clearer.
Tried Solarizing it for a bit (will try a dark theme later), what do you think?
nice! that's great. If I can figure out the options part of Stylus, I'd love to add in color schemes and some other options.
I updated the pastebin to add a better background for code blocks and added some comments in the vote hiding. :)
Sounds good!
ok, last actual update for today
I added in some checkboxes for comment vote toggles, added an option to make it full-width, and also an option to add more columns.
Nice!