[Hendricks266]

Our version of IPB is really old and we have had an upgrade to the latest Xenforo on the back burner for a while. There are two issues:

1. Finding and/or making an adequate theme.
2. Properly porting and supporting up/downvote functionality equivalent or superior to what we have.

The site staff is seeking a volunteer to assist with #1. If interested, make a post with something we can use to gauge your talent and experience.

[Forge]

I hope whatever you do is optional. I've gotten used to the gold & black.
So much so, I can barely remember the theme before this one.

[Hendricks266]

We can't use IPB themes with Xenforo. The idea is to recreate the current theme targeting the new software.

[blizzart]

Hendricks266, on 19 July 2017 - 02:07 PM, said:

We can't use IPB themes with Xenforo. The idea is to recreate the current theme targeting the new software.

I think most of this "recreation" could be done with CSS. Depending on how easy the template system of Xenforo is (couldn´t find any information about that right now) you can count me in. I´m running my own webdesign business for over 5 years now, so CSS/HTML/WordPress templates won´t be a problem. If it comes to functionalities with PHP / Javascript / AJAX I´m out. But I think Big Bene is into web programming with at least PHP IIRC.

[Forge]

Well if it's just doing the theme, then it should only take a bit of CSS/HTML/XML editing to the template - or are they wanting entire page layouts & designs that may require additional PHP/Bootstrap, Javascript/JQuery, etc., knowledge?

[Mark]

I hope most changes are behind the scene. This has the best color combos for my old eyes.

[MusicallyInspired]

I'm sure it'll have a different aesthetic. It's an entirely different board system (correct?). That's why someone's needed to make a theme for it resembling this one.

[Hendricks266]

Without a doubt it will not look identical to what we have now with regard to layout, but we intend to keep the color scheme and aesthetic.

[TerminX]

One of the reasons we chose Xenforo is because the default appearance is already very similar to what we have here in a lot of ways. The current theme we're running on IPB required hundreds of template edits and that's not something we want to do again.

[Hendricks266]

This just skyrocketed in importance because we have discovered that our registration system is not just clunky, it actually broke at some point. I see we have a volunteer so we will be reaching out shortly.