couple ideas

[rochellerose]

Hey Patrick and the development team,

I'd love to see a built-in scrollbar and button color scheme for each skin.

I also don't like the new admin panel, it's not as easy or organized.  It also has its' own colors, not matching that skins' color theme.  Maybe change it back to the V4 look?

[Stinky666]

Jan 31, 2013 1:45:06 GMT -8 rochellerose said:

Hey Patrick and the development team,

I'd love to see a built-in scrollbar and button color scheme for each skin.

I also don't like the new admin panel, it's not as easy or organized.  It also has its' own colors, not matching that skins' color theme.  Maybe change it back to the V4 look?

Not too sure exactly what you mean about the scrollbar; where would you want that exactly?
Nor do I know what you mean with the button colour scheme. Can you elaborate on that too please?

As for the going back to V4 look, the staff are already making alterations, so the panel has a "basic" and "advanced" look to it.
So by clicking "basic", you'd get a similar look/style/layout to what V4.5 currently is.

[Ryan Roos]

Jan 31, 2013 1:45:06 GMT -8 rochellerose said:

I'd love to see a built-in scrollbar and button color scheme for each skin.

You could go request a plugin to do this. It isn't something we would include by default since it modifies the browser and not the website itself.

Jan 31, 2013 1:45:06 GMT -8 rochellerose said:

I also don't like the new admin panel, it's not as easy or organized.  It also has its' own colors, not matching that skins' color theme.  Maybe change it back to the V4 look?

We are adding new navigation options to the Admin area soon. This will include a basic mode which will simplify the admin area for members such as yourself that don't like all the extra pages. With regards to your additional concerns I think that you will find as you use the admin area in v5 that it is much more convenient and logically laid out than v4 was. For example doing things with Categories and Boards is now all on one page. It was dozens of pages in v4. Reordering the boards in v5 is as simple as dragging and dropping. In v4 you'll remember that one at a time you had to select a board, then pick if you wanted it above or below antoher board. Loading new pages the entire time and clicking save. v5 saves you time and lots of effort in many areas. Addressing your concerns with the skin, we made the admin area outside of your forum themes to prevent people from accidentally breaking them. Since codes no longer effect the admin area messing up a code can't break the admin area. The same is true of the new secure login and registration system. So no matter how broken your forum gets you can always login and access the admin area and fix or remove anything bad that's happening. This also allows us to add new features to the admin area over time without having to worry about breaking people's layouts.

I hope that made sense.

Thank you for taking the time to discuss these things.

[rochellerose]

Hey, thanks for the info and sorry for the late reply. When I get busy I forget to check back after posting. But better late than never. hehe
Yeah everything you said made sense and don't get me wrong, there are features I really like and I haven't noticed any bugs yet.    Keep up the good work ya'll.