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Title: Discus
Post by: w35 on February 10, 2015, 07:04:55 PM
So, after a year of reading SSSS, I finally create a Disqus account! My goodness, that website is painfully bright. I present to all of our dark theme fans and Disqus users, a stylish, transparent, glowy, and dark restyle of Disqus. SSSS inspired the links, shadows, and purple, while the rest was from my favourite wunderground theme and my imagination. It is a total restyle of the disqus domain, including all websites using the external chat plugin.

You will need to download the Stylish addon for your browser, then go to https://userstyles.org/styles/110281/disqus-dark-and-transparent (https://userstyles.org/styles/110281/disqus-dark-and-transparent) and select, "Install with Stylish." Everything is commented, so personal adjustments can be easily made.

Profile:
(https://df6a.https.cdn.softlayer.net/80DF6A/static.userstyles.org/style_screenshots/110281_after.jpeg?r=1426745069)

External comment section:
(https://df6a.https.cdn.softlayer.net/80DF6A/static.userstyles.org/style_screenshots/110281_additional_14370.jpeg?r=1426745069)

Link to download:
https://userstyles.org/styles/110281/disqus-dark-and-transparent (https://userstyles.org/styles/110281/disqus-dark-and-transparent)

Cheers to our eyes.

(This site is next)
Title: Re: Discus
Post by: Solovei on February 10, 2015, 10:30:24 PM
oh woooow.
I don't know if I'll use it, but I gotta say, this is really awesome! Good job~
I like the transparency thingies the most, I think.
Title: Re: Discus
Post by: w35 on March 19, 2015, 02:23:16 AM
Updated the style to comply with Disqus' changes, and made it more SSSSy.
https://userstyles.org/styles/110281/disqus-dark-and-transparent

Title: Re: Discus
Post by: Cancvas on July 14, 2015, 12:49:10 AM
So, I'm just curious how you use (mainly in SSSS context) Disqus voting system.

I use only upvote
- to agree with content comment is about (for longer statements with meaningful content)
- to express similar opition as commenter (for comments like "I agree")
- if i find comment amusing or otherwise moving (like those spinoff tRoLL diSussIONs)
- to express sympathy

-C
Title: Re: Discus
Post by: hushpiper on July 14, 2015, 01:11:53 AM
I don't have any hard and fast rules for how I use the voting system, but usually I upvote anything that I found insightful or that made me laugh. If a comment pulled a smile or a "huh" out of me, it's probably gonna get upvoted. It's sort of an easy and silent way of participating in a conversation when you don't have anything in particular to say. Kinda like smiling or laughing or making noises or gestures like you would do in a face-to-face conversation, I think--at least, that's what I sort of unconsciously equate it to.
Title: Re: Discus
Post by: DB (f.k.a. DaveBro) on July 14, 2015, 06:01:57 AM
::Upvotes Hush::

I'll downvote excess profanity and incivility, on the theory that it only matters if others agree with me enough to also downvote.  Maybe a down vote to the wise is sufficient?
Title: Re: Discus
Post by: Fen Shen on July 14, 2015, 08:04:19 AM
I usually don't up/downvote comments because I'm too lazy to login on Disqus everytime I visit the site. However, the votes of other help me because I often "sort comments by: best" instead of just reading from top to bottom - I'd never arrive at the bottom because I don't have that much time to spare...
Title: Re: Discus
Post by: Krisse Kovacs on July 14, 2015, 09:07:34 AM
So, I'm just curious how you use (mainly in SSSS context) Disqus voting system.

I use only upvote
- to agree with content comment is about (for longer statements with meaningful content)
- to express similar opition as commenter (for comments like "I agree")
- if i find comment amusing or otherwise moving (like those spinoff tRoLL diSussIONs)
- to express sympathy

-C

I use the upvote same way too.

I'd use down-voting if I am totally disagree with it, or I hate it, but I never ever used it before.
Title: Re: Discus
Post by: Sunflower on July 14, 2015, 03:39:49 PM
So, I'm just curious how you use (mainly in SSSS context) Disqus voting system.

I use only upvote
- to agree with content comment is about (for longer statements with meaningful content)
- to express similar opinion as commenter (for comments like "I agree")
- if i find comment amusing or otherwise moving (like those spinoff tRoLL diSussIONs)
- to express sympathy

Me too.  The upvote button can be a little tricky sometimes because it's too simple to fully express all those sentiments -- parallel to "Like" on Facebook; doesn't it seem strange to "Like" someone's post about dealing with cancer or whatever?

The downvote button, I only use for what I consider seriously abusive content.  I've probably only downvoted 3-4 times.  (I've seen other online communities where people vigorously up- and down-vote one another's postings, but they were more debate-oriented.  I personally wouldn't want the SSSS Disqus comments to evolve that way, but I know that's up to the community as a whole, not me.)
Title: Re: Discus
Post by: Curry on July 14, 2015, 03:43:45 PM
So, I'm just curious how you use (mainly in SSSS context) Disqus voting system.

I use only upvote
- to agree with content comment is about (for longer statements with meaningful content)
- to express similar opition as commenter (for comments like "I agree")
- if i find comment amusing or otherwise moving (like those spinoff tRoLL diSussIONs)
- to express sympathy

-C

Yeeppp, I'm not on the comments much, but this is pretty much how I use it! I also generally upvote the comments in a discussion I'm involved in as well (kind of like a way to say 'I read this' without necessarily responding to it.)
Title: Re: Discus
Post by: Sc0ut on July 14, 2015, 04:44:21 PM
Exactly as Cancvas. I've only downvoted a comment once, when an offtopic discussion got heated and someone was wrong and rude at me :) I mostly downvoted to prevent myself from replying to them.
Title: Re: Discus
Post by: w35 on March 01, 2016, 02:33:29 AM
Finally stopped being lazy and updated the style for Disqus' latest changes.

https://userstyles.org/styles/110281/disqus-dark-and-transparent
Title: Re: Discus
Post by: DB (f.k.a. DaveBro) on March 01, 2016, 07:22:06 PM
Any chance it would get Disqus running again on my Windows 7 Neuter, er, Starter, on an Acer Inspire netbook?  :-[   Currently on Eternal Reload, tempting me to go watch the washing machine instead.  ::)

We're up-to-date with FireFox.  FWIW.
Title: Re: Discus
Post by: Noodles on March 01, 2016, 10:35:14 PM
Just as an FYI, this site does already have a dark mode -- click the little moon just to the right of the News section, above the search bar. (Not that you can't make your own dark mode, but you don't necessarily have to.) :>
Title: Re: Discus
Post by: w35 on March 03, 2016, 11:28:27 PM
DaveBro, is Disqus not loading while you have the style applied? Can you give more details, such as which pages, external comments, etc...

Noodly, I am aware. This restyling is for Disqus specifically.
Title: Re: Discus
Post by: Noodles on March 04, 2016, 07:20:00 PM
Noodly, I am aware. This restyling is for Disqus specifically.
I know that this one's for Disqus, but you did say something in the first post about making one for this site and I didn't want you to have to do more work than you wanted to. :P
Title: Re: Discus
Post by: w35 on March 04, 2016, 11:23:58 PM
Ah! Yes, I had forgotten about that. At the time, this forum did not have a dark style, so I was going to work on it. But yeah! The site's dark style is great.