Topic on Talk:Flow/Interactive prototype

It looks very VERY old.

My suggestion: 1. Getting rid off that awful grey background as soon as possible, and picking another color (maybe light blue), with a glittering fade out effect - similar to the one Microsoft Windows 8 tiles use. 2. Changing the confusing arrows design to the standard + and - convention, in order to collapse and expand replies and threads. 3. Space a bit (just a bit) between the different replies, so that they appear in an entire different boxes. This looks nicer and easier to read. 4. Change the titles' view of each thread - current design looks almost exactly like current Wikipedia's one, which, once again, looks anachronistic.

That's all for now, as for a 5 minutes impression.
Oz.

Sorry, but what's wrong with Wikipedia's current style? It's functional maybe that is what you mistake for "anachronistic"?

I think Flow should look much more as if it actually was Wikipedia. Currently Flow looks like something completely different, forcefully plugged into MediaWiki, without the intention of making it blend in.

I'm fine with a skin that has all this "glitter" you're proposing (and that can be chosen if the user likes glitter more than functionality). But it should be used site-wide, as every skin should. Everything else will always look like unfinished work or patch-work.