User talk:Hessive

UCX implementation
Hi! I’m Héctor, one of the Fandom Community Managers. I’m here to talk with you about the upcoming changes we will experiment on the wikis when the new UCX will be released. As a result, we’ll have to adapt the current content - mainly the design and implemented code - to ensure they’re compatible and operational.

Specifically talking, the UCX will mainly affect the Frontpage, the design (logo, background, favicon, themes), the CSS/JS used and some templates that should adapt their look to it. While the wiki will still be migrated some weeks later, I’m here to work alongside you to anticipate all the work regarding review, improvements and adaptation to the new skin.

If you agree, I’ll start soon, reviewing the mentioned elements and describing to you what work should be done. For the case of the design, I can work with the future version, that will be working once the wiki will be migrated. Regarding the frontpage, templates and the code, I can work and implement the changes now, to have them properly working both in the present and the future, but having all the changes done in advance.

Let me know if you have any comments about it and we can explore together the upcoming changes. Thanks! --CuBaN VeRcEttI (Contact) 17:00, 10 May 2021 (UTC)


 * I think I'm fine with it. I just wonder how all of this would look so I'd be interested in seeing a preview, just contact me again later. Also, CSS is sort of a mess on this wiki. Hessive (talk) 14:22, 11 May 2021 (UTC)


 * The UCX test preview is only available for us right now, but it will be soon (some weeks later) for the admins. In the meantime, I'm checking the current status of the wiki, how the UCX version looks, and making some improvements (that I'll later explain here) to anticipate work. Thanks! --CuBaN VeRcEttI (Contact) 17:34, 13 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Hi again! Fortunately, right now I can say almost all the work is finished! :) I've been basically working on this:
 * The frontpage had the style based in the light theme. I adapted the colors to be compatible with both light and dark theme at the same time.
 * I created both themes and I re-uploaded the favicon and logo.
 * I moved some code from Common.css to Hydra.css, to only affect the current skin. In addition, I moved this content to the new page for the UCX skin, but with the changes to be compatible with both themes (using CSS variables).


 * My main (and bigger) setback was regarding the initial frontpage section, and some other templates (tables, navboxes, etc.) For some reason, I moved the content from Common to Hydra and I defined the changes in the new page for the UCX skin (as I've explained), but the changes didn't work for the new skin. Fortunately, thanks to the immense help from Game widow, she finally found the reason of my problem: you also created a Wikia.css page (and I wasn't aware of this creation and even if worked for the Gamepedia wikis) and it was affecting (and blocking) what I put. A clear example of how something simple could turn into a nightmare for me...haha --CuBaN VeRcEttI (Contact) 14:39, 18 May 2021 (UTC)

Current wiki layout
Hi, I've noticed and reported quite a few things on the Community portal's talk page almost a month ago, and as I didn't get any answers, I assume you didn't see it so if you could take care of these problems/inconsistencies that would be great. :)

Additionally, the new Crafting recipe template looks really odd. Why does the Amount column take half the space of the box, it makes the Ingredient(s) column really compressed, and it seems that the font is smaller than before making the text hard to read on Desktop. --Dinoxel (talk) 14:52, 28 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Also, could the top banner background height be reduced as the new logo doesn't take as much plage as the old one and it really uses space for nothing. --Dinoxel (talk) 14:53, 28 May 2021 (UTC)


 * Sorry, I indeed wasn't checking the community portal page and wasn't aware of your suggestions. I've fixed a couple of things that you've mentioned. As of other problems, I'll manage the pages for deletion a bit later and will try to look how to make the crafting template look nice. Hessive (talk) 16:00, 28 May 2021 (UTC)

Opt-in release
Hello again! As we have announced in our new blog, the opt-in exploration is available to you now! You can basically take a look at the main areas of the wiki, but as I explained the main things you should keep into account are the frontpage, the tables and their style, and other templates like infoboxes and navboxes. All of this, always thinking about the option of switching between the light and dark theme and all the content should be readable and adapted to both at the same time. In addition, all the wikis have to create a combination of colors for the light and dark theme, using the ThemeDesigner tool, and also re-upload the logo and favicon, and optionally the background (but it will work differently as header background, so it’s up to you what we’ll do with it on your wiki).

I already adapted the content and code to be compatible with FandomDesktop (the new skin), and also created the 2 themes and re-uploaded the assets. You can perfectly make any change to the ThemeDesigner and/or the Mediawiki pages, but I really encourage you to talk with me first. I’ve been adapting it, and I put some concrete stuff (colors in the ThemeDesigner, code in the MW pages and in one page but not another) for concrete reasons (basically to have all compatible with both themes), so to be more practical I think it’s better if we discuss about any proposal/issue/preference you could find/want before make changes. Thanks for everything! --CuBaN VeRcEttI (Contact) 14:54, 1 June 2021 (UTC)