First of all, thank you for all of this, it's incredible and I appreciate the work you've done to make things easier on yourself and for us! I have been back and forth trying to keep up during work while also checking to make sure my forum didn't burn down from the changes (it did, but a quick swap-out corrected the issues [I was in such a panic I didn't save anything from the previous versions so that's my loss, though not a huge one. I have the colors I pulled from the old dark theme I used plus the background image since I used them to color match with my accompanying wiki so I will tweak that later])
One thing I am noticing for both my forum and others in screenshots (and the ones you provided for the updated theme) is that our forums don't resemble your demo forum. Is there a major difference between the two besides the aesthetic and is there specific coding to achieve that header look?
Also, will the color overlay for the sliders make a come back in the distant future? That was useful for the banner types I had. I'm making use with the text background feature for now so glad to have something in place.