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Bookface User Styles?


Out of curiosity, how many people are actually still using the Bookface user styles version? That's where your Friendica server does not have the Bookface scheme installed so you either load it in a userContent.css or using a browser add-on/extension.

While it's how this whole Bookface project got started, the server-side version has been pretty widely adopted so if nobody is using the user styles anymore I'd really like to stop updating them. They're kind of a pain because by necessity they have to be different from the server-side styles to override everything, and it takes quite a while to test and tweak them so they render with the same appearance as the light and dark server-side versions. Or as close as I can get, since they rely on the underlying "frio" scheme setting.

Again, I'm not talking about the server-side stylesheets, I'm talking about the user content stylesheets.

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@Alt Pygoscelis Papua I think you need an easier username..
Sadly the instances I am on still have no support for bookface by default and are waiting ideally for an upstream PR / merge. But I am fine with not supplying the user styles. Anything to take overhead of your work and keep development of bookface fun is fair and welcome.