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A Tea Spoon
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Posted: 14th Feb 2008 02:57
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So i was emailing a friend who asked me if i have seen his newest post, i said IDK and so i asked him what the title was and off i went. turns out i had been there and when i told him i had already seen it. he said "how can you not know that you already saw it? dont you know unvisited threads are highlighted blue?"

for you people out there who don't know i am color blind, and it would really help me on the forums if i knew which threads i have visited or not. so im just throwing it out there; could you mods possibly make the threads a different color when you have not visited them, or mabey even a darker shade? it would really help the colorblind community

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tha_rami
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Posted: 14th Feb 2008 03:08 Edited at: 14th Feb 2008 03:09
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Or an image or so? I really like the colour scheme.


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Xenocythe
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Posted: 14th Feb 2008 04:33
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I say just put a big black N next to the left of the thread name. This is a pretty good idea

BTW, You've got quite a nice sig. It's much better looking than most others on these forums, from people who can see all sorts of colors


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TDK
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Posted: 14th Feb 2008 04:43 Edited at: 14th Feb 2008 04:49
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There are other forum colour schemes. Have you tried any of the others to see if any suit you better?

[Edit] Sorry - forget that. I just checked them out and they only seem to change the banner colours at the top so they probably won't help.

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A Tea Spoon
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Posted: 14th Feb 2008 05:34
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i did try the other color schemes and the don't work, like you said

Xenocythe i like that idea, that would really help me and thanks, i really like my sig, it may not be colorful but it stands out to me.

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Jess T
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Posted: 14th Feb 2008 05:46 Edited at: 14th Feb 2008 05:46
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You could write yourself a GreaseMonkey script to do that for you..?

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tha_rami
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Posted: 14th Feb 2008 05:54
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Yeah, or the forum software can be altered a tiny bit to do that as well for all colourblind people here.


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Agent Dink
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Posted: 14th Feb 2008 06:15
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Could just make it a simple variable that can be changed to any color in the user's profile... wouldn't be too hard to implement.

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ionstream
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Posted: 14th Feb 2008 06:17 Edited at: 14th Feb 2008 23:31
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I know it's not ideal, but I wrote a simple greasemonkey script that will put a border around every new post.



Or you can use the link here (right click, Install User Script).

http://ionstream.blogdns.net/colorhelper2.user.js

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A Tea Spoon
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Posted: 14th Feb 2008 06:37 Edited at: 14th Feb 2008 06:39
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how do i use these scrips, i don't see the install thing anywhere when i right click

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ionstream
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Posted: 14th Feb 2008 06:41 Edited at: 14th Feb 2008 06:43
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You have to download and install GreaseMonkey, a firefox extension available here: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/748 .

Edit: actually it looks like you have to right click the script link and click View User Script Source, then click Install on the window that pops up.

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Jess T
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Posted: 14th Feb 2008 06:45 Edited at: 14th Feb 2008 06:48
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Alternatively, instead of having to install Greasemonkey, you can use the following bookmarklet:



Copy + Paste that into a bookmark as the URL. Change the two values of bgCol and txtCol for the colours of the text and background, then 'open' the bookmark when you're viewing the front page of threads...

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ionstream's works for viewing new posts when within the thread, and mine works for viewing threads that have new posts in them on the man board page
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Jeku
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Posted: 14th Feb 2008 07:10
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The reason we're suggesting the Greasemonkey alternative is because, as far as I know, Rich is the only one who can alter the forum code. None of the other mods can. Rich doesn't work for TGC full-time any longer, so it takes a while for requests to be put through. If you absolutely insist on having the forum change, I'd suggest emailing the support team.


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A Tea Spoon
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Posted: 14th Feb 2008 22:52
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ok cool, Ill try the grease monkey

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A Tea Spoon
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Posted: 14th Feb 2008 23:00
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ok i installed grease monkey and installed the thing, but i cant seem to get it to work. it installed successfully but there is nothing to mark new posts, unless no one has posted at all

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ionstream
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Posted: 14th Feb 2008 23:32
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Whoops, forgot to take that into acount JessT, now it does both.
Here's an updated version, it wasn't working before because it didn't have the wildcard * after the forum URL.

http://ionstream.blogdns.net/colorhelper2.user.js

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