Forum

A screenshot of the homepage for the website. The theme used in the screenshot is "Blue Old Proboards Default".

### Purpose

Permanent Ban Requests, Ban Appeals, Rank Applications, etc.

The **TotalFreedom Forum** is where people usually are when they want to discuss current events, apply for a higher rank, report bugs, give suggestions, report bad players, report abusive admins, appeal bans, and discuss various server-related topics.

It is hosted by ProBoards, a free forum hosting website.

## Themes

As of November 29, 2017, the **TotalFreedom Forum** has 12 usable themes that are available to everyone.

### 'Electro'

**'Electro'** is the first entry in the theme selection list. It is one of the 2 themes that use the entire banner image (the other theme in question is **'Night Sky'**).

### 'Night Sky'

**'Night Sky'** is the second entry in the theme selection list. It is one of the 2 themes that use the entire banner image (the other theme in question is **'Electro'**). Most of the colors used by this them are just different variants of purple. This theme was just recently updated after a request to change the link colors due to how similar the regular text and link text colors were.

### 'Old'

**'Old'** is the third entry of the theme selection list. Some of the text elements can be hard to read. The theme is also the subject to a technical goof: the background image doesn't seem to repeat correctly.

### Black Glass Green

**Black Glass Green** is the fourth entry of the theme selection list. Most of the text is green and gray. The theme is also the subject to a technical goof: the image used for when you are hovering over something like a thread listing doesn't work, and instead shows a placeholder image that repeats.

### Blue Old Proboards Default

**Blue Old Proboards Default** is the fifth entry of the theme selection list. There isn't really anything to say about it other than that it *was* the default theme before **Simplistic Gray** was made the default theme.

### Cave of the Err Bear

**Cave of the Err Bear** is the sixth entry of the theme selection list. There isn't really anything to say about it other than that it doesn't use the banner image like 3

### Christmas Theme

**Christmas Theme** is the seventh entry of the theme selection list. In early versions of this theme, snowflakes would appear falling down on the user's screen as if it were snowing. Designed for use during the holidays (specifically, Christmas), it is be expected to have Christmas colors.

### Dark Gray

**Dark Gray** is the eighth entry of the theme selection list. Similar to **Cave of the Err Bear**, it doesn't use the banner image. Instead, the banner is ridiculously large and the rest of the forum looks more compressed to the center.

### JamelB2 Theme

**JamelB2 Theme** is the ninth entry of the theme selection list. Similar to **Cave of the Err Bear**, it doesn't use the normally-used banner image. Instead, the banner uses a custom background image (while keeping the default ProBoards banner text).

### Metro Stripe [Blue]

**Metro Stripe [Blue]** is the tenth entry in the theme selection list. It refines the entire appearance of the forum with the intention of making it more simple. Unlike all of the other themes, this one has the shoutbox shown on-screen all the time, rather than having to scroll down to access it. Also unlike the other themes, the welcome message also shows the user's profile picture (along with the text, of course).

### Simplistic Gray (Roboto | TotalFreedom Default)

**Simplistic Gray (Roboto | TotalFreedom Default)** is the eleventh entry in the theme selection list. It looks like a hybrid of **Blue Old Proboards Default** and **Metro Stripe [Blue]**. Unlike all of the other themes, the logout button is replaced with a power button. It replaces a few other icons as well. As the name of the theme implies, it is the forum's default theme.

## Replacement Attempt

In June 2017, a project started where a new forum was created as an attempt to replace the old ProBoards forum. It was registered under the domain http://www.totalfreedomboards.net. At first, the UI was incredibly bulky. In fact, it was so bulky that **VideoGameSmash12** (Telnet Clan at the time) created a custom theme using the Stylish extension that severely compacted the forum's appearance. This custom theme's URL is https://userstyles.org/styles/143458/compact-theme-for-totalfreedom (for those who are interested).

Security-wise, the forum was an absolute disaster. The HTTPS side of the new forum was broken and unstable.