Feedback on new skin

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Looks awesome!

I like that, looks nice. I would suggest that you put the quesion's tags at the bottom, in the same line of the "post a comment" button, since it makes the question more readable. Keep up the good work.

Wow, really cool! What are the 10% missing? And how long did it take you to get the skin to 90%, Manuel? What problems did you come across? (just to know what to expect if we try to create our own skin, too :-)

Look great, I like the hover effect on avatars

Good suggestion. I thought about it earlier, but in fact if there already are any comments the button won't be in line anyway. I might move it up to the row with the vote buttons (and just give it a little "comment" icon instead of text) - will make it slightly harder for new users, but remove clutter for everybody else. What to you think?

Main Problems:

• I rewrote most of post.js (see this question for details) because it imposed some ridiculous and arbitrary structure on the site to work.
• Sometimes it's not very clear where certain elements come from; templates call a macro that calls another macro that uses some widget, etc...

My approach was to simply wipe the CSS file and then work myself through the templates one by one like Casanova in the nunnery, redoing the CSS and the template simultaneously.

Missing stuff:

• Login / Signup pages are totally messy
• Not entirely satisfied with the profile page
• Might redo the suggested question autocomplete
• A lot of testing:
  • Haven't tested whether everything is working as it should under all conditions yet
  • No cross-browser testing yet
  • No testing on mobile devices yet
• style.less still needs to be optimised.

As for how long it took me: hard to tell, has been my evening project for a couple of weeks. Once the general design idea was set, I reckon about 30 hours.