Dark theme quick-fix update · 5:48am Dec 5th, 2013
Some may remember that I released a dark-themed fimfiction.net front page redesign earlier this year. I know I promised alternate colors and such, but with everything that happened around that time, I never got around to them, for which I apologize.
Users of the style, however, may have noticed that the new fimfiction theme breaks it, adding a non-transparent background image that overrides the dark blue background. I have made a quick fix for this and updated the style where it is published on userscripts.org.
(Edit: As I said, though, this is mainly a quick fix, removing the background image in question. The result is a plain, flat-blue background which may be a significant change, depending on your previous configuration.)
Interest in a more complete dark restyling to counter this update has been expressed, but I sadly have no plans for such a thing at this time. Knighty has specified that this update is to free him from the limits of variable background colors in future updates, so any style to counter the update would need to deal with each such situation as they arise, and I don't really see myself committing to such an undertaking.
As for further updates to my existing, front-page-only style, I do actually have a new such style in the works which would essentially be update-proof, but I'm not really up to making promises for that either right now. For the moment, my free time is being directed to having Sharing the Night Chapter 10 ready for christmas. Progress: 2100 words.
Just so you know, Greasemonkey wasn't detecting the update via the 'check for updates' option for some reason. It worked when I went to Userstyles and manually downloaded the updated userscript, but it was still an oddity. Anyway, thank you for the update/patch!
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The script component and the style component are completely separate in the case of my redesign It's terribly inelegant, but came as a result of the script portion being almost an afterthought. If anything was going to recognize the update, it would be Stylish, not Greasemonkey.
The whole thing was a bit of a learning experience for me, and I made a lot of mistakes in how I implemented it Aside from time, this is one reason I've never gotten around to updating it at all. I'd rather tinker around with doing it right when I do get the urge .
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*shrugs*
I was actually referring to the link on the right of the Userstyles page, where it says "(Though installing Stylish is recommended, Greasemonkey users can also install this style as user script.)", not the companion script. Either way, though, it appears to be working at the moment, so
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Ah, my mistake! I wasn't even aware of that feature, since I'm personally using Tampermonkey on Chrome.