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the side buttons on the left (which were almost invisible in the old theme) seem out of place. I think they disturb the balance a bit: there's some space taken up on the left side but non on the right. Personally, I'll just remove them using uBlock for now but it will be interesting to see if anyone uses those buttons/arrows. Maybe it makes sense to remove them completely?

Also makes use of the screen space which is practical and efficient. Many thanks @corysanin 

Also, in the CSS, there's a :focus target on ".sceditor-container textarea, .sceditor-container textarea" which makes the message box (which I'm currently typing in) increase the font size to 1em. It's pretty confusing since the text jumps when you try focusing on it, making the position of the cursor weird. Since this wasn't a thing in the old theme, I'd suggest removing the :hover target and just making the font 1em. (by the way, related thread: https://forum.artixlinux.org/index.php/topic,7786.0.html)

IMHO

I don't like it! Neither the new theme nor the old one, all other theme on the elkarte platform are physically painful to look at!

Here is an example of how a forum not on the elkarte platform might look:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250515135514/https://archlinux.org.ru/forum/

1st (marked in purple). For the light variant.
I can barely read it in the light/white version. Darken it more please.

2nd (marked in red). For the light variant.
The colors for the normal users seems blend in the background. Either it needs more chroma(less gray-ish/lack in color) or more chroma with lower lightness(making it dark blue).

3rd (marked in orange) For the dark variant.
It's less readable in the dark variant. Make it a bit lighter.

I tried it but prefer the original Silence. This wouldn't be a problem as that theme is still available, but it seems the forum will only show your chosen theme when you are logged in. So if you just go to the site without being logged in, you get the default theme and not what you previously selected. Many websites will save that kind of info in a cookie, but it doesn't seem to be happening here. There is also apparently no way for people without an account to set a display preference, as it appears under account settings.

Thanks @corysanin.
Few things that I missed:

On the light variant:
Marked in red: Needs to be darken, like the previous issue.
Marked in Teal/Aqua: There are black bars blocking out the percentages in the poll.

On the dark variant:
Marked in red: needs just a very little tiny bit of lightness increase.

On both variants:
Marked in purple: View results button sits on top of the thread page numbers.

None of the minimalist themes out there do it for you either? I know it's hard to get a good look at them with many demo links being busted.