This is the official room for discussing FriendFeed themes. When new themes become available, you'll hear about them here first. As always, if you want to try on something new, go to http://friendfeed.com/setting... to see the current list of available themes!
I've been messing around with Friendfeed - Dark style 2 (http://ff.im/4kGqX) and making small changes for a week or two now. The code's become a total mess, I'll try to sort it out some time, but I think monochrome looks really cool. Let me know what you think.
- Doğaç Yavuz
from Bookmarklet
Thanks... AJ... liking this a lot better... I was starting to look for something to replace friend feed... still going to look, but it doesn't have to be found tonight.
- Harold
I like this style except that it makes the fonts small.
- Vezquex: God of FF
Comment font is too small. How to enlarge it in the script? I've already replaced font color in script with #000000 for clarity. Thanks for doing all this AJ. Otherwise, I would drop FF.
- Polly Potter
Ok, - this is very nice, except for the bouncing that happened in firefox on first use of script (screen bounce, firefox, vista) otherwise, this is nice.
- Dan Morrill AKA Techwag
Tried it and it didn't work. When I relaunched chrome, it launches to an error page (Oops! This link is broken) with this in the search box "enable user scripts 475k". Sure I'm doing something wrong. Just can't pinpoint it.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
Great tutorial Sean! My problem was that I was copying/pasting your "–enable-user-scripts" line from IE which put it in as an odd hyphen rather than a double dash. When I typed it myself, it worked fine. It was looking at your screenshot that clued me in.
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
The cleaner FF style is a little clunky when it refreshes from page to page. Does anyone else notice this? Or is it just in Chrome?
- Jen (SquirrelGirl)
AJ, great tutorial on enabling scripts on Chrome.
- Mike Reynolds
Mike, It was Sean for the Chrome tutorial. ;)
- AJ Batac
@Jen Ooh, thanks for pointing that out! I'll make sure to note the double dashes in the article. I did that the first time as well
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
Polly, to enlarge the comment section and sidebar font sizes (this is just rough), edit stylish script as follows: [CHANGE]: .main ul li a, .section ul li a { font-size: 13px !important; } [CHANGE]: .info,.likes,.comment,#footer,.pager,.bottom,.hidetoggle { font-size: 13px !important; } [ADD after ".searchbold" line]: .content {font-size:13px }
- Micah Wittman
Wow, does this using this on FireFox 3.5 make a world of difference. FriendFeed is actually easily readable. Thanks so much for this!
- nadezhda
Belated thank you to Micah for the tips about font size. FF soooo much easier to read now.
- Polly Potter
Just installed it, and it looks great! Thanks!
- Mark Jepsen
Frankly I think it's pretty awesome - but I would watch it with the black characters in front of a black background.
- Ciaoenrico
True that, Ciaoenrico. I know whatcha mean.
- Brad Williamson
Sorry, I didn't want to be nasty. The bg is also with a low resolution :P
- Eta
Usually I like colors and mixes of colors, but these ones are too dark.
- Brome
Eta It's funny, I liked that low res look - the first thing it made me think of was a grainy close up of a picture of some place on the Las Vegas strip.
- Ciaoenrico
De gustibus non disputandum est :) Anyway, the important thing is Brad loves it ^__-
- Eta
really awesome, post the image and hex codes to friendfeed.com/themes
- Jaime Golding
So 24 hrs later I made another journey through FF-themeland. Now I visited all the accounts of people who liked my post yesterday or placed a comment on it. I made a selection of the pages I liked most. They're here because I thought the theme was so very personal, had something artistic or it could have a calm atmosphere with it. Either way, I...
I made a small journey through FF-sphere. Just to see what other people did theme-wise. Whether they had wanted to be original or liked it more the way it was. So I jumped from 1 account to another by going to the 1st person that had liked or commented on an entry. Does it say anything? Do you have a theme that's especially YOU?
No, I probably made a mistake here. FFundercats is not an open account. It should be another one with green toy thingies.
- Ton Zijp
That one for the field bg is quite nice. ;-)
- Kol Tregaskes
my beach background was a pic I took in 2004, using an old 2.1 Olympus digital camera (1999) Topsail Island, North Carolina. Wish I was there now....
- Mike Nencetti
I have a theme I also use on Twitter, My Name is E, my personal url and is in another form on my blog. You could call it branding :)
- Ruud van Wijngaarden
I like Angelica's, Canada's, Holden's, and Mike Nencetti's themes out of that group, with perhaps Mike Nencetti's at the top of the list. None of the themes I've seen so far really stand out to me, though.
- John (a.k.a. dendroica)
I hate custom themes. Seriously i do. It's *never* better than the original design.
- Nik
Luckily Nik, FF allows you to turn them off so you never have to see any custom themes.
- FFing Enigma (aka Tina)
I love them, Nik, because that's the way you can add a personal touch to the design that's all ready-made. They don't have to be beautiful to me, as long as they say something about the person who is using it.
- Ton Zijp
Mike, I'm in wilmington, topsail is cool and all, but the beaches are almost floridian when you get down to the lower half of cape fear... (figure 8, a gated community barrier island then wrightsville, then masonboro a National Estuarine Research Reserve, and then carolina beach/pleasure island and then bald head island with the frying pan shoals just off it's tip...) Next time you're in the area throw up the bat signal!
- Chris Heath
@chris i need something called 'time' never seem to have any... I've been to wrightsville beach - but there are many more beaches I would like to visit. one of these days.
- Mike Nencetti
I have a customized FF theme, but it is simply an altered version of my customized Twitter theme. One of these lifetimes I will update both.
- Louis Trapani
FriendFeed Theme Meme. This theme should not be confused with the theme I made for the group Wonderful Weird Weblogs: http://friendfeed.com/friendf... , but for both themes I used the illustrious skills of Russian painter Pavel Filonov.
I've been working on it for 2 hours, but finally I found the right painting for it. And... if this is not a weird theme for a weird group... http://friendfeed.com/wonderf...
2 hours? and you already changed it! This one fill my entire screen, the other one didn't. Oh my bad, was looking at your blog not the group.
- Remo
Yeah, my personal theme was even more trouble to get where it is now. I've been trying several paintings, kept one for roundabout 24 hours, but still wasn't content with it. So this morning I changed it again (3 times that is) & I finally think that I'm happy with it. :-)
- Ton Zijp
from email
aa eskisinden daha bile iyi gibi bu. sadece groups kısmında grup isimleriyle son aktivite tarihleri arasında renk farkı olsa şahane olur belki ama böylesi bile çok güzel ya. yalnız cidden friendfeed kullanmaya teşvik ediyor bu konsept, geçenki bozuldu bozulalı yüzde 83 azaldı aktivitem.
- Doğaç Yavuz
chrome kullanmıyorum o yüzden bilmiyorum nasıl kullanılacağını. evet orada bir ayrıştırma yapmak gerekiyor. :)
- Burak Dönertaş
Burak, en sonda bir adet } unutmuşsun abi :) (domain'leri tanımlayan). Onu düzelttim, CleanCSS.com'da optimize ettim, bir de arkadaş yorumlarının arkalarını renklendirip kişinin kendi yorumlarının arkasını mavi değil de kırmızı ettim. Şuradan ulaşabilirsin: http://tinypaste.com/2d456 Yalnız şaka maka, Stylish içerisinde gördüğüm en güzel FF düzenlemesi bu olmuş. Tebrikler :).
- Barış (beyn.org)
aa saol barış, kodu update ettim userstyles' da :)
- Burak Dönertaş
Eline sağlık Burak. Sonunda sade bir ff'ye kavuştum.
- Cengiz Çatalkaya
şu helvetica fontu kadar sade ve huzur veren başka bir font olabilirmi...:)
- Bilal Poyraz
@Burak, hacı önceden tıklamışım, ilk sana vercem söz :P :D Ellerinize sağlık.
- Oğulcan Orhan
yeni özellikler eklendi. firefox'un kendine has özelliklerini hatırladım. onları da kullandım. dehşet oldu bu hali - ayrıca servis ikonlarını da şuradan import ettim. http://userstyles.org/styles... daha da iyi oldu :)
- Burak Dönertaş
resmi olarak şu dakikadan itibaren kullanmaktayım, süper olmuş eline sağlık Burak!
- Soner TÜMER
kurulumunu tekrar etmekte fayda var sanırım. bazı arkadaşlar çözememiş. :) önce buraya tıklayıp ilgili eklentiyi kuruyorsunuz. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US... kurduktan sonra bu adrese tıklayıp http://userstyles.org/styles... ekran görüntülerinin hemen altında duran "load into the Stylish" butonuna tıklıyorsunuz. bu kadar. eğer greasemonkey kurulu ise stylish e gerek yok. "load as user script" e tıklamaları yeterli. opera ve safari kullanıcıları da kullanabilir. :)
- Burak Dönertaş
opera için Program Files altında Opera klasörünün içindeki Styles klasörüne javascript dosyasını atın. ya da Tools > Quick Preferences (ya da kısaca F12) > Edit Site Preferences, Display tabında en alttaki My Style Sheet kutucuğuna indireceğiniz .js dosyasının konumunu yazın.
- Hakan İyice
tahir ayarlardan klasik temayı seçmen lazım.
- Burak Dönertaş
Burak, bende bu arkadaş ve kendi yorum linklerimi birz tonunu doygun hale getirdim daha şık oldu.
- Cihan (ch) KALOĞLU
nasıl istersen cihan :) ben bu kadarının yeterli olduğunu düşünmüştüm :)
- Burak Dönertaş
bilmiyorum belki benim ekrandan ama çok silik gözüküyordu anlayamıyordum. :) bi ton koyulttum şık oldu. Eline sağlık iyki yapmışın...
- Cihan (ch) KALOĞLU
Hehe I know.. It's funny someone used me as an example for another FF script a long time ago.
- Haggis (Sean Loyless)
I had to do this because you are sometimes forced to view themes that are REALLY unpleasant on the eyes. Makes you want to bleach them.
- AJ Batac
Sean, I'd take it as a compliment that you get used often. (er, hmm. moving on) It probably means that the person knows you won't take it personal and flip out or something. :)
- pea
Yeah. Sean is one of the coolest guys here on FF. #BFF
- AJ Batac
AJ, I'm using your Cleaner FF (04/29/09) and all backgrounds are white :-)
- Polly Potter
Hello Polly, yeah. This is for people who aren't using CleanerFF yet. ;)
- AJ Batac
No insult intended to pea - when I checked her page all the labels were in rich magenta or puce or some color I'm forgetting the name of.
- Polly Potter
ah. interesting. I guess the script only strips out the background images and not the customized box bars?
- pea
It looks like, from the example that AJ posted of Sean's feed, that the script doesn't affect the bars on the boxes so folks will be stuck with those customized settings. I'm guessing that turning off theme-ing on the actual FF settings will be the best way to go in terms of not seeing any customized layouts.
- pea
It just makes the main column skinny like on Facebook in an attempt a joke. Would have been funnier back in 2006, when Facebook was ridiculously narrow.
- Vezquex: God of FF
I experienced this before I saw this post and was sooo confused. It's very cool though!
- Tamara
"We want to add more options in the future, but hopefully, this will give you some ideas for where to get started." Kinda points FF has a future?
- Patrik Arwengrim
The Secret Code is up up down down left right left right B A tab enter (figured i'd just say it since we've played this game before: http://friendfeed.com/paul...)
- Dan Hsiao