Board backgrounds library

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Maybe this should be viewed as a feature, rather than a bug, if going for that imperfect retro look.

Let’s add a simulation of CRT scanlines over the entire page next…

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Gorgeous Themes! I also like how easy it is to just paste the code snippet into “Import Themes” and click enter. The sand one must be my favorite! :sparkling_heart:

I like it so much that i have a few more follow up questions for the community:

  1. Are there more, similar projects around? I searched but could not find any. For reference, the most similar thing I found is: custom go theme community?

  2. Is there a way to have “themes” like this one be saved - so that one can just click on it instead of having to copy & paste the theme-code again?

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Thank you! Until about a week ago making a theme like that would require local CSS overrides, which are hard to maintain and share. Before publishing the themes I had to merge the code changes for stone variants and custom backgrounds. And since applying a theme takes over ten settings, I built sharing too.

Contributing those themes directly into the OGS codebase would’ve been easier than building advanced settings&sharing. But the expressive settings benefit more players, and I hope that more advanced themes appear.

I like the idea of saving themes. That’s not straightforward, and would need finding space on the small area that appears when you hover over your profile name. Perhaps add a feature of Favourites for board and stones that can include both the default themes and multiple Customs? @anoek may have more insight.

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Contributing those themes directly into the OGS codebase would’ve been easier than building advanced settings&sharing. But the expressive settings benefit more players, and I hope that more advanced themes appear.

I think your work is a big stepping stone into a future where we have many advanced themes. I feel like if the guy/girl from custom go theme community? had access to this I could maybe currently be testing out those themes with just one copy & paste! One can dream :slight_smile:

I like the idea of saving themes. That’s not straightforward, and would need finding space on the small area that appears when you hover over your profile name. Perhaps add a feature of Favourites for board and stones that can include both the default themes and multiple Customs?

I feel like that could be a great edition. But currently it already is 90% of optimal in my opinion, all one has to keep around is a text document with the code snippets for each theme and then do a simple copy & paste on switch. The biggest ui-flow problem currently is probably the lack of a reset button which resets everything to some default, because for example the scale of stones is off for the normal themes after using one of yours.

That is fixed by me just not switching away from your themes tho :slight_smile:

Anyways, great work and may future talented people built on that!

Edit: I just saw the “copy theme” button. Using that the missing “reset” button can be worked around quite comfortably.

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