One of the things I immediately like about hubski - as someone who just signed up last night after seeing it mentioned in that thread - is how small it feels. My favorite part of reddit is the small subreddits that several people can be very active in. I wouldn't want to ruin that by spreading it to everyone, but I have mentioned it to my RL friend. We're looking at HES right now, since it looks to be out of development (sadly).
Yeah...that was from a while ago. The site has changed so much since then. Here's the original thread. Check some of those screenshots! https://hubski.com/pub?id=66843 Other cringey iterations:
Oof, it's definitely gotten better, though it still looks pretty good there (not a fan of that mutli-column thing though). My friend and I are looking at HES to see if it can be updated to do some stuff again. The links for the chrome version 404, and despite running it right now, I don't see it doing anything. We haven't used hubski for very long though, so we're waiting to get a feel for the site and how it works first. I mostly just want to bump up the type size a little, and I wanted a night mode; luckily, I found the dark theme!
For minor changes to the CSS, I recommend stylebot for chrome. You can just add or change rules to as little or as much as you want. I played with it pretty heavily a while back and had it all super slick and shit. Now, I just increase font sizes and line heights across the board because I'm on a 27" iMac at work and this screen is just so freaking big. Here's a random overhaul to the CSS using stylebot - it might be broken now though. I don't even know if the one supertod did still works, but it was fucking epic: https://hubski.com/pub?id=99737
Awesome, thanks! I'll check this out, since minor CSS alterations are all I want. Stylebot is one of those things that I've always meant to check out, but just never have. You think I'd have looked at it, since I spent a lot of my time over the last five years designing and developing websites.
Stylebot is really great and super simple. If you know your way around CSS, the edit CSS button at the bottom is what you want. Use inspect element to pull the class name or id and then write away. It's basically like changing the CSS thru inspect element but automatically loads whenever you visit a certain site. One thing to watch out for is that if you are fucking with the layout of the hubwheel comment title comment, the css is slightly different for the comment page vs the badge page even though the class names are the same. That frustrated me to no end when we were trying to get a semi-responsive version of the site good. Last note, we're just beginning a major rewrite of the backend and frontend of Hubski. We're aiming for Thanksgiving but you know how that goes. So if you pour hours into changes it's all going to break sometime in the next 6 months. :) What languages to you typically work in? I've been doing HTML/CSS/JS for a few years and just redesigned my company's site from scratch. I'm more a designer than developer but it looks like I'm going to get to know some real programming languages for this rewrite which is really, really exiciting!
Awesome, thanks for the info! I'm also more of a designer than a developer. I work mostly in HTML/CSS, JS is something I experiment with, and I do/have done a lot of jQuery, but it's hard for me to get the hang of non-visual stuff. I spent a long time developing / massively altering WordPress themes. That sort of disenchanted me from it, because WordPress can be so bleh, I used to try and build cool little things (like a media player out of jQuery, which was the first thing I learned with it). Now I mostly just alter stuff to suit my needs, though I am working on my own Ghost (ghost.org) theme, so I'm not relying on someone else's theme that I've changed the CSS of drastically. I sort of stopped doing web stuff around the same time I stopped doing Linux stuff, I've focused more on my content since then. I did a lof of php, but always sucked at that. I do love ruby, especially Sinatra (which I'd call a framework, but apparently it's a DSL? I dunno), and I should probably tinker with it some more.
Ugh. I hate wordpress. I built our new site on CouchCMS which I cannot say enough brilliant things about. It's flawless. It's brilliant. It's amazing. It's perfect. It does everything and nothing and everyone at work who currently fails as being able to update content without screwing up layout or something has been able to use Couch successfully. The nicest thing is I GET TO CODE MY WAY - MY STUFF. It's 100% mine. Then I just place the tags in it, or make it editable, or have the pages be populated automatically with content, etc. Everything about it just makes sense. It just works. It's just like "duh" - the exact opposite of my experience with Wordpress and Joomla. I've had ruby on my list for a while but with all the amazing stuff people are doing with node.js and react and angular and sails and stylus and blah blah blah - I'm going to be learning that next. I really gotta start by fully understanding the concepts behind objects and server side stuff first though. That's the one thing I still struggle with. I work closely with my best friend and programmer at work so I get lazy about learning new things when he can just do them for me.That sort of disenchanted me from it, because WordPress can be so bleh
WordPress is good for some people, to me (I've been following it for a long time), it's gotten gloated and over complicated. Joomla was the very first CMS I used, and I used it for a very short amount of time, it was awful. I have even worse experiences with Drupal. Node.js looks incredibly cool, but I have the same problem as you as far as not really understanding objects. I can deal with server side stuff to a certain extent, but if I start seeing error messages, I lose my cool pretty quick. I ran various linux distros for about ten years, and that didn't change me: error messages in a terminal inspire terror in my gut. If I were still actively working on web stuff, rather than the casual stuff I do now, I'd absolutely force myself to be up to date on all of that, but I've fallen behind. My best friend is also a programmer. One night we were at my house trying to develop an inventory system for our workplace in php. I think both of us detest php, and we spent four or five hours debugging something that ended up being whitespace. ironpotato's tried to get me to look at programming stuff before, mostly application development, I think. I've tried to get him into web stuff before. We just can't get into the other's territory. Oops, forgot something: I'm a writer, so all I really need these days is a plain content-only website, that's why I use Ghost even though it's still pretty early in development.