Site Post » Minor Fimfiction Skin Update · 4:33am Dec 5th, 2013
Over the past couple of days I've been working on cleaning up some of Fimfic's skin which has slowly morphed away from my original design as things got hacked on, which tends to happen a lot (look at any big site like youtube and you'll see all sorts of mismatched styles).
The biggest change is icon changes. I haven't completed this change yet but basically instead of image icons I'm now using FontAwesome which means the icons are actually now a font. This means they are easy to colour, resize, and look gorgeous on high dpi phones/tablets. Sadly chrome does an awful job rendering them but you take the good with the bad....
Other than that, I've changed the headers on top of content boxes, changed some colours for toolbars and made buttons prettier. I've also removed the ability to set custom backgrounds. I know this is gonna cause fallout, but it had to be done. I'm gonna be honest, adding that functionality was a huge mistake on my part and I've regretted it since I did it. When I don't know what colour the site is going to be, I have zero control on how things are laid out. I have to put everything in boxes because I can't risk putting dark text on a dark background. This is hugely detrimental to site design and thus it had to go. If you must have a dark background, learn how to write greasemonkey scripts or use stylish, because I'm not going to be officially supporting it anymore. I hope you can appreciate the reasoning behind this change even if I know it will annoy a lot of you. Hopefully the revert to a more warm colour scheme will soothe the pain a bit.
I hope we can agree these came out pretty sexy
edit: If you have problems with the site brightness, it means your monitor is too bright. Try turning it down.
Alex Edit: If the icons are coming up as strange boxes, it's probably because you have NoScript running. Check this image for the solution.
Hm. Haven't really noticed any of the new changes.
Oh!
New haircut?
Muh backgrounds
I like it, really.
I just want the 'dark background' option back.
The brightness hurts my eyes, see.
But, I like it, overall.
~Skeeter The Lurker
I'm okay with this, surprisingly.
The story statistics feature is neat!
COOL!
I kind of like it all. It looks sleek, Knighty.
Literally saw it happen just now! Nice!
can you return the update story color icon back to the original yellow/orange?
You ruin everything
(i like it)
I am okay with this.
Wow, these new boxes look really cool
Well done King Knighty 
I LIKE it.
Do like. Much cleaner look, and the comment buttons are a TON easier for me to see now. Thank you.
I'm missing all the symbols. They appear as boxes with letters and numbers inside. Anyone know how to get my symbols back?
I don't know about any of you, but I find this update pretty dang sexy. I find it a good way to get back to the old look FIMFiction had with the plaid, warm background. I also like how the font is now and the buttons. Along with that, I am on Google Chrome and this change looks great! Also the warm colors feel more like home now.
I love it knightly!
1) this is something that you should have warned us about, as in doing this blog earlier in the day, or maybe yesterday even.
2) and it was you specifically that recommended Chrome to me. lol (I now use it for nearly everything)
I dont think it looks bad at all personally. just gonna take a bit of getting use to, but the general site layout remains the same, so I aint gonna complain.
Some changes I don't like, some are actually pretty good. Just another day on Fimfiction.
I don't like this, up and down arrows are too subtle now because it does not fill them in with color. Cant we have a setting to tell the site to load it the old way for people who don't like skins?
Or at the very least have it when you select up or down arrow for a vote it fills the thumb in entirely? I have a feeling Chrome is making this not look as pretty as it should look?
i hate it. to bland
I like it.
Silver out!
1573582 I agree, the site is now too bright for me. I liked reading my fiction on a darker screen rather than one that's so bright I get blinded when switching to it
It does look very sleek. You said something about things being easier to colorize now because it's mostly all a font type. Does that mean that you are going to add the option to change the color of all site interface text?
I am digging these new looks to be honest.
Well done and yay!!
Loving it.
i.imgur.com/ivExZmv.png
Those buttons and stuff don't seem to be loading for me, Knighty. I'm using Firefox 25.0.1
EDIT: Guys, we know what's causing it now.
http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-awesome.css
White-list THAT in noscript and it'll work. If you don't, it won't pick 'em up and the buttons will look screwy. The CSS for the buttons font is being run off-site.
Beautiful.
I noticed some random changes suddenly. 
I thought I lost it more then I already have. 
Love your work bud. Now to see how to do the script thingy since you said so. I might have to and might not. I'm not sure. 
Bueno.
The sex appeal is doubled!
Hmm... Since the menu bar's color is controlled by the banner, most the colors do no play well with the black icons you've chosen. White would be better as it is higher contrast.
I miss the custom backgrounds, but this is okay.
Hey, what's with the chapter names on the bar graphs for stories? Not saying it's a bad thing, I just have no idea what it's trying to tell me.
*refreshes page*
I have to say I'm not terribly thrilled with the change but it's certainly not awful and I'm sure I'll grow to appreciate it. Looks good, otherwise.
It looks nice! I like it. I'm going to miss my "Twilight Sparkle" theme though.
1573621
Same here. I'm also on Firefox 25.0.1.
Damn. I only just chose a background a couple hours ago
I dunno, I'm not sure if I'm a fan of clean-cut appearances but whatever.
1573621
Might be some kind of block happening on the font. It's on an external domain. Do you have any extensions to block other domains loading?
I think some of my icons are broken....
EDIT: Fixed it.
1573643 I'm running noScript, yeah. It's not a font stored on the site or something? Okay, what domain to I need to whitelist?
-clicks home tab to update view count on new story, and-
Holy hell what happened! and I like it too much to want the old one back.
Damn sexy, indeed, knighty. Takes one to know one
Gorgeous like my avatar.
1573643 Actually I clicked "Temporarily allow all this page" and it still doesn't work. And I've always got Fimfiction.net whitelisted, and the ad domains...
On second thought...
I suppose the backgrounds being unchangeable isn't anything too terrible.
I'll just keep the contrast down, as usual.
~Skeeter The Lurker
awww, i liked the old one! crud...
1573647
http://netdna.bootstrapcdn.com/font-awesome/4.0.3/css/font-awesome.css
This is where the font is located. See if that's being blocked.
The highlighted favorites button looks hideous to me, it being dark orange on blue, but I guess that's the price of having a variably-colored nav bar.
Meh. Needs a way to darken the background. It's a bit too bright for my eyes...
But at least you aren't as bad as Google+.
Gahhh!
What the buck have you done to my sexy night background? Now I can't match it with my Luna banner.
Oh well, I guess times are changing. That being said, anyone working on a script for a darker background? If not, guess I'll get used to it.