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Mahz's Dev Journal

"Looking" as a tag would be somewhat ambiguous to me... More confusing than helpful.

Mahz's Dev Journal

A thought about the "latest" potion of the sidebar: I'd personally prefer it showing one-two from each category rather than a handful across the boards. So two latest in free, two latest in casual, two latest in advanced - otherwise the slower-posted forums won't be getting much limelight. (I'd also suggest melding NRP section back into Free/Advanced/Casual and making NRP a tag, but I doubt it is going to happen... Perhaps once we have tag-based filtering/search? Since in all honesty, I've been basically out of the NRP scene ever since it became its own thing, solely because it became its own thing and was no longer by tier.) I myself am partial to right-align for the sidebar - for a forum such as this, I'd prefer the actual forum-portion to be in the main focus when I visit the page (and left-aligned things tend to be the main focus for humans, at least those using our read-from-left-to-right text, as some research found out), and the sidebar be something I look at secondly when I am not doing something specific. Left-aligned sidebar would be a bit too obtrusive for me for a forum (if we were a Wiki, where'd you'd foremost access things by category/article, then things'd be different; in forum, the subforums are the main "categories" I'm interested in, not the individual RPs). In regards to Open/Closed tags: I find Ellri's suggestion is a bit too much division. It'd become clutter. I'd say stick with: Closed | Jump in | Applications (Since "jump in" and "apply" already suggest that the RP is open. ..."Apply (CS)"? "Apply (NS)"? "Apply (sheet)"? Ehh, I assume people probably don't want applicants who don't bother to skim the OP after they see the RP is taking applications...) Edit: Horizontal lines are useful for posting multiple characters at once.

Mahz's Dev Journal

I made an attempt to greyscale the ratings and remove the pop-in.

Mahz

Definitely better for me.

Mahz's Dev Journal

Maybe one day a web designer will join the guild, but those are even rarer than web developers. And I mean someone that can just edit this file directly for me.

@Mahz

The cascading style sheet? Yes, I know how to edit those directly ... I have onlywritten them directly in plain text format, in fact, and quite a few of them, too. (I am not a web developer or designer designer by any means, but I have CSS-styled quite a few UIs (CSSs are used in many more things than just web pages) and a couple of web pages - not really as a part of my job, but mostly for all kinds of side- and hobby-projects and things that have just ended up in my management.) It would require me to take some time to read the code and figure out what element is what, though, and like almost everyone knows, I've got quite bit of backlog in various things already, so it'd be probably be a while before I would be looking at it... Well, and reinventing the color scheme to something that would work with my entire range of monitors and possibly people with varying types of hue/shade discrimination deficiencies would both a bit of work and possibly be quite drastic.

Yeah, the guild is clearly built by someone that's never looked at it on miscalibrated, color-shifted, or low-range-of-color screens.

My this laptop's screen is light (in the lack of a more accurate term) due to its type, but it is otherwise calibrated. I checked on a PC screen and cell - both of which have black as black, not dark gray, and while the difference is significantly smaller, both my eyes and RGB still insist that it is slightly faded red rather than pure red (well, RGB obviously won't change regardless of screen; #ed1c24 is 237,28,36 in RGB as opposed to the 255,0,0 of pure red). It is mostly just a light screen making the difference especially glaring, and while the Guild's red might more or less pass as red of some description on screens that aren't as light, it cannot claim to be anything but faded-red pink on a light screen.

Mahz's Dev Journal

In my opinion, I like that the rating buttons pop up when you hover your mouse over a post, I feel it makes the threads look less cluttered, unlike on Iwaku where the ratings are permanently visible. Perhaps they could be greyed a little but still pop up so atleast they're not too noticeable. However, I don't mind how it is at the moment personally o3o

@AbigailTenshi

It is purely the pop-up itself that is the irritating thing - making them grayed out but keeping the pop-up would not solve anything for me. The grayed out suggestion was there just because another person expressed that the ratings buttons would look too bright and garish against the predominantly graytone theme of the Guild. But yeah. The pop-up is really very grating, especially when I am trying to look for something and excessively scrolling through threads (and might mouseover plenty of posts). It is the general annoyance of things popping up in my peripheral vision coupled with maybe FPS instincts or something else kicking in, or whatever it is that makes flies landing on your screen bothersome, but in any case, *twitch*. Edit@cellphones: I find that the tap-registering on my cell-phone is generally too poor for single/double-tap distinction to be a good mechanic - more often than not I am multiple-tapping just to make sure it registers it as a tap, not sliding action or just holding. I've replied and browsed the site from cell a couple of times, but I don't think I've ever seen the ratings buttons on cell (which to me might be a positive thing rather than otherwise, but eh, if I wanted them I'd not really be getting them).

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@Hank: If you aren't afraid of getting a headache from staring at slightly differently colored squares for too long, then this test is fairly good in determining how good the combination of your screen and eyes is in regards of telling shades of color apart: http://www.xrite.com/online-color-test-challenge (I get a zero (perfect score) with ease with both this and most other screens.) But yeah ... the difference of the two colors is very distinct to me. The first is pink on this monitor, and no setting that doesn't shift or get rid of colors altogether doesn't change it for me. (RGB is as objective as you can get with colors over the net and through screens, so the second should be as red as red can go on any given screen, barring odd monitor settings.) Edit: BBCode ate a space.

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On the screen of this laptop, the unsub buttons appear faded to pink, rather than red. (It doesn't have too good screen as far as colours are concerned - my PCs, other laptop, notebook and even cell phone are better for that -, as it tends to lighten things, but there definitely are reds that are far more red ... it just that it makes the pinkness of RPG's "red" especially distinct. The colour picker doesn't have a proper red, either.) This is not red. - ed1c24, or RPG's closest colour picker option to red. Now this is red. - ff0000, or the hex for 255,0,0 in red-green-blue. Er... I was just bothered earlier by the fact that the colour picker's red is very I-accidentally-left-it-out-in-the-sunlight-for-a-few-weeks faded pink, but didn't bother to address it. Personally, I am not really bothered by the unsub buttons (and I am typically fairly colour-sensitive) - but I definitely would be by pop-in buttons. The rating buttons popping is already one of the most annoying features on the site... (Can we have these greyed out and permanently visible? Please?) What slightly does bother me - now, this is a matter with this screen more than others (it is slightly better on other screens, but not good, and this screen simply doesn't go any more darker or more contrast) is the amount of near-white text on fairly light grey background (and in one instance, medium grey on light grey). Tag buttons? Near-white on light grey. Hiders? Near-white on light grey. Reply box? Near-white on light grey. The Unsub buttons mentioned above? White on bleached-red-pink. At least my eyes tell me that either the text should be pure black instead of white or the background should be significantly darker. It doesn't hurt (luckily - I literally am holding a hand in front of the screen to avoid seeing the gloriously neon tags of a certain RPG competitor whenever I go on that site...), nor is it hard to see, but it is a bit tiring combination in abundance, for the lack of better term.

Mahz's Dev Journal

I feel that the ability to make named quotes without cluttering the quoted's notification box would be useful, in any case. And GM powers should never extend to deleting and/or in any form altering the posts of other players - there is a reason most sites pick their mods carefully, and why mods should stay away from topics they feel passionate about. It is very unlikely there wouldn't be griefing and/or other destruction of others' creative content. I also support leaving visible-to-staff logs of the edited (and deleted) posts' original contents (it consumes some extra storage space, but it also generates a means to handle rogue mods and "I-didn't-do-anythings"). Locking a thread? Yeah, I would not allow that, either.

The Prophecy

@Veridis Quo: here. (Can also be found in the link between the Nomad's Prophecy and the ruleset in the opening post.)

The Prophecy

@Nessa: Yeah, if Thaler herself doesn't have anything she wants to say or do, then it's all Jack's turn now. The last question was mostly just so I/Jack would know where she is and what she is doing "now", or by the end of my post. Aemoten might ask her to take a seat if she actually remains standing, but else he'd probably just remain quiet for the time being (besides the quiet instructions), at least until Jaelnec/someone brings them the things and he has had a bit of time to try and gather himself as much as possible under these circumstances. (This is often why I ask those little specifying questions in OoC - to know where exactly everyone is and what they're doing, so it'd be possible to take account of those details without new IC content from the respective player.) Random: I've been sort of been looking for new music to add to my general playlist. Predominantly specifically looking for various instrumental (and possibly near-instrumental) pieces (not even certain how exactly to describe my general taste in music ... a bit over all over the place, and I don't really even know what genres half of those things exactly are). Might have a tendency to pick more aggressive and/or powerful tracks? Eh, but if anyone feels like giving some suggestions on what I might take a listen at, I'd appreciate it, in any case. Bands, composers, computer games with music that is worth listening out-of-context, individual tracks, whatever goes.