Rate the current styles
 

Please take a moment and try each of the following forum styles and give each an integer rating from 1 to 10 (integer meaning 4.5, 3.2, etc isn't allowed). We require that all rating posts include a rating for each style and that each rating is genuine. We will use two simple conditions to filter out entries that appear to be someone just saying "I use this style the rest is shit", so be honest in your ratings. Use the following links to view each style to rate:

Zephios
Plastic
Dark Angel
Night Vision
SubSilver
Windows
Mako
Diablo II
Ocean
HUD
Zephios Dark

If for some reason, you don't feel comfortable posting your rating, you can PM it to me by clicking here

Thanks for participating
--WetWired

Zephios-7 (average)
Plastic- 8(surpised with this one)
Dark Angel- 6 (not enough detail)
Night Vision-8 (Good Job on this one)
Subsilver- 5 (too bland)
Windows-6 (not bad, but could be better)
Mako- 8 (I like this one)
Diablo II- 8 (fits the game well)
Ocean- 9 (My all around favorate)
HUD-9 (Nice)
Zephios Dark- 9 (a nice change from Zephios)

Zephios - 8 (Nice colors, easy to read)

Plastic - 7 (Good colors, nice overall feeling)

Dark Angel - 5 (Very strange colors, still fairly easy to read)

Night Vision - 4 (Too much green, I can't stay I like it much)

Subsilver - 3 (Terribly white, I really don't like it)

Windows - 6 (Easy to read, decent colors, albeit somewhat plain)

Mako - 5 (Very easy to read, while some of the odd colors are really ugly)

Diablo II - 4 (Lots of broken links, hard to read, bad colors, yet a feeling that makes it somewhat livable)

Ocean - 8 (Very abstract, and the colors are perfect. It's a perfect standard vBulletin style change, but some more details would have helped. Zephios added some, but the blending background can be annoyingat times)

HUD - 2 (Sure, it doesn't have green all over it like NV, but the colors are still horrible)

Zephios Dark - 7 (Nice overall opacity, pretty nice futuristic look, but overall, I don't like the readability too much, while it's still a nice theme).

Zephios-8 (Easy to read with the colors)
Plastic-7 (It's nice, very bright)
Dark Angel-8 (Very good colors, a nice banner)
Night Vision-5 (Too bright)
SubSilver-3 (It's too dull)
Windows-7 (The standard theme, easy to read)
Mako-4 (It's very similar to Dark Angel but with bad colors)
Diablo II-5 (The banner is decent, the colors are horrible)
Ocean-8 (A nice banner, pretty good background, easy to read)
HUD-2 (Bad colors, somewhat hard to read, and it's a rip-off of another theme)
Zephios Dark-8 (Nice colors, easy to read)

i dont have scores, but ill rate them in what order i like them by.

1) Synthesis
2) Zephios Dark
3) Plastic
4) dont care about the rest.

Synthesis hasn't officially been made public yet, since it's not done yet. Of course, if you like it already, that's great, but wait until it's done.

id give them all 5's except plastic gets a 0 because it has a ripped header and zephios dark gets a 7 its the best one

for some reason, I just feel comfortable with HUD. cant really explain it

Synthesis is the best, but it needs to say how many posts there were since the last time you were here.

Wow, well done on whoever did Synthesis, its really good
9/10

For those who havn't figured out, we are voting on the old styles to find out which ones get to die when Synthesis becomes the default style. Synthesis will become the default style whether or not anyone likes it, though from what I've heard most will. If you don't rate them or don't rate them all, then your post does nothing toward that end.

Anyway:

Zephios: 7--nice style, but too bright
Plastic: 8--it was the best until I made Zephios Dark
Dark Angel 5--too much contrast
Night Vision 3--way too much contrast
SubSilver 2--this is not phpBB 2.0
Windows 3--buttons too dark for rest of colors, showthread top too dark also
Mako 6--nice colors, but not great
Diablo II 3--looks half finished
Ocean 4--big space between stuff is ugly, what do people see in this style?
HUD 1--Night Vision made uglier
Zephios Dark 9--hmm, let's see: I made this one to my tastes, of course it's my favorite, but after seeing what the new style will be I can't give it a 10

The only one that I think absolutely must die is HUD
--WetWired

8
7
7
-2000millions and one
9
6subsilver wannabe
4too much purple for my taste
7
6
7
8and a half

i don't give scores but plastic ownz joo... all i have to say :)

Yeah plastic is pretty good

mmmm.. i like

Synthesis - 10
Zephios - 9

the rest i give a 5 or 6 at random. hehe

its easy to read, its simple theres nothing crowding your screen and some people prefer light colors over dark colors, simplicity over techy

Synthesus is definitely the best but it's not finished... I can't wait until it is.

Zephios - 7 the mix of ocean's blues and those greys/silvers doesnt work for me that well

Plastic - 8 good for a dark theme.... only one major drawback.. the *coughrippedcoughbannercough*

Dark Angel - 5 seems like a diablo2 theme lacking the same icons or banners

Night Vision - 2 ow my eyes

SubSilver - 3 too much white, way to much

Windows - 3 read SubSilver

Mako - 7 decent mix of colors easy to read

Diablo II - 7 if i played D2 i would prolly use this one

Ocean - 10 simply the best, none of that dark foreboding stuff or that techy silver stuff.. pefect match of colors and very easy to read, easy on the eyes, my choice of theme

HUD - 2 deja vu..... or is it. a slighty diff colored night vision

Zephios Dark - 8 put together well... but ill never be able to see it what the heck is up with all this dark themes on the net?

Yeah, go Ocean!

Hot damn.

HUD - 10 (Really nice)

Yea, and there you have it. HUD all the way. James, you rock, HUD owns all.

YAY, someone supports me!

Zephios -6 Average style, good colours.

Plastic - 9 I like the different shades of blue.

Dark Angel - 6 Its a bit dark, and I don't like greys that much

Night Vision - 7 I guess I like this because I'm used to seeing stuff in green and black in games.

SubSilver - 4 To light.

Windows - 5 Standard looking style, nice contrast between the grey and blue.

Mako - 8 Nice dark colours

Diablo II - 6 Some of the images are broken for me and I just don't like the pic of the stealskull...

Ocean - 8 Nice blues, fairly good readability

HUD - 6 The teal colour just doesn't tempt my eyes..

Zephios Dark - 8 Fairly good theme

Hella monkeyzz, James. Get a new pair of eyes :P

Ocean was my original favorite since it was unique and easy to read and such... nice default there... but now I use Zephios Dark cause it kicks...

Zephios - 9 Easy to read

Plastic - 8 Great theme, I like the onmouse over for the categoryus

Dark Angel - 2 Fug town

Night Vision - 0 Guess xenn made this one, looks similar to orange

SubSilver - 8 Readable and perfect imitation of phpBB

Windows - 2 Readable

Mako - 5 I hate dark shit

Diablo II - 7 Nice

Ocean - 6 origional and boring as hell. Want the same color theme, look at zephios

HUD - 6 night vision with different colors, better theme

Zephios Dark - 6 Too dark for me, and a bit 'dirty'. Needs to be cleaned up

Synthesis - NOW (7) DONE (10)

It does, took me a while to find it too. Top right corner of the main forum page.

Zephios-8 Not bad :-/
Plastic-8 Pretty cool. Nice colors. I'd probably use it if synth wasn't better. :=
Dark Angel-6 Cool name? thats about all it has.
Night Vision-No Comment.
Subsilver-7 I dunno.
Windows-7 almost same thing as above.
Mako-8 ?
D2-sucks
Ocean-too much bright
HUD-No Comment.
Zeph dark-8

i really like syntheis, so i'll give it a 9.

I like synthesis but I find it hard to tell which forum's have new posts because the arrows highlighting don't occur often enough and are hardly noticable... (This many be my computer screen tho... I'm not sure.)

IcE-

They changed it to a red that moves frequently. I give synthesis a 9, it will definitely be the best theme.

Synthisis is now my favorate 10!!

Well, feel free to give me some feedback so I'm sure about what to actually work on. Taco said he didn't like the difference in table width between the 1st and 2nd level (forum list and thread list), but I'm not too sure I can agree with him about that.

I'm not sure if you changed this already, but I think the closed button should match all the other buttons. It's like silver now.

im not rating but my fav use right now would be synthesis(period)

Like I said before, it DOES which ones have new posts. On the main forum page in the top right there is a link.

Yea, thx I just realized that now.

synthesis 10
zephios 9

what about everything else?

synthesis is good, but i'm not currently using it cause it cuts off the top half of my APC thingy.

for the people who like ocean cause of its clean feeling and its easy to read then why vote crap for subsilver?