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[email protected] (HenHanna) posted:

https://cmacleod.me.uk/newsgrouper has most of the screen WHITE, like Window's classic Theme.

instead, i want to use a Dark Theme or something like [High Contrast Black]--white letters on black background.

Hi, this is my site, so "by popular demand" I've just hacked up a basic "dark mode",
with a checkbox on the login screen to enable it.

Actually I'm now planning to do a complete rewrite of the user interface. I wrote it using CloudTk
(Tcl/Tk over a VNC connection), which I had used for a previous project. It's good for interactive
graphical applications, but for something which is all just text it seems overkill. Also I was
finding it quite difficult to get it to behave sensibly on mobile devices. So now my plan is to
redo the user interface with plain html. The logic behind that will still be implemented in Tcl.

One difference from RSLight (which NovaBBS uses) is that I don't store articles long-term on my
server, I just pull them on-demand from eternal-september.org and cache them temporarily. This
means I don't have storage constraints, so you can access any groups that E-S carries, which is
pretty much everything apart from the binary stuff.

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On 2/21/24 13:32, HenHanna wrote:

Colin Macleod wrote:

[email protected] (HenHanna) posted:

    https://cmacleod.me.uk/newsgrouper   has most of the screen
WHITE,   like Window's classic Theme.

 instead, i want to use a Dark Theme or something like [High Contrast
Black]--white letters on black background.

Hi, this is my site, so "by popular demand" I've just hacked up a
basic "dark mode",
with a checkbox on the login screen to enable it.

       Yes...  it looks nicer now...

     i'd want newer  threads  on top  ---
       can i make this default in TB  ?    (Ascending ,  Descending) ?

I'm pretty sure you have to set that on every ng but yeah. Just click on
the date tab
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HenHanna wrote:

Colin Macleod wrote:

HenHanna wrote

https://cmacleod.me.uk/newsgrouper has most of the screen WHITE, like Window's classic Theme.

instead, i want to use a Dark Theme or something like [High Contrast Black]--white letters on black background.

Hi, this is my site, so "by popular demand" I've just hacked up a basic "dark mode",
with a checkbox on the login screen to enable it.

https://cmacleod.me.uk/newsgrouper


1. i'd want newer threads on top ---


2. in Rec.Puzzles i can't see any new Posts of the past year.

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HenHanna <[email protected]> posted:

https://cmacleod.me.uk/newsgrouper

1. i'd want newer threads on top ---

I will look at adding an option for that.

2. in Rec.Puzzles i can't see any new Posts of the past year.

It's getting stuck on a post which includes "<SCRIPT>" in the subject,
so what follows gets interpreted as javascript. That's a nasty security
hole which I need to fix.

Thanks for the feedback.

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Colin Macleod <[email protected]d> posted:

2. in Rec.Puzzles i can't see any new Posts of the past year.

It's getting stuck on a post which includes "<SCRIPT>" in the subject,
so what follows gets interpreted as javascript. That's a nasty security
hole which I need to fix.

I believe I've fixed that problem now.

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