Head's Up: Some design updates are happening shortly....

So anyone experiencing short-term wonkiness will know why.

Making several tweaks to the overall look-and-feel. More modern, less rounded corners.

And a surprise for desktop users.

Stay tuned.

a reply to: SkepticOverlord
:-D I just refreshed on my phone and wondered what was going on!

Thanks for the heads up.

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LOVE IT!

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Yeah freaked me out... looks awful, hope that's a glitch and it looks better when you're done?




ETA: OK looks better.
All avatars were chopped in half and text was underneath avatrs and all sorts.
Much better now.

originally posted by: MissBeck
Thanks for the heads up.

It looks like everything went smoothly.

Would it be possible to have an option to disable the backgrounds?

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just refreshed the laptop and it looks very nice...at least in 'new topic'. Less cluttered.

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Just refreshed my page and it was a "WTF" moment as I wasn't sure if the change was on your end, or due to a glitch on my end at first. I then found this thread topic and knew the reason.

With that said - looks pretty cool so far.

Best of luck with the new design roll out.

How do I get rid of my reply box (and everything) being transparent, with a busy background showing through...and freaking me out????

jacy

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Okay, I just saw a shift.

My avatar/mini-profile appears to be afflicted - some look normal, others are chopped off and running together.

The green stripes totally distracted me from what I was reading, but just because it was a surprise.
Running Chrome on Win10 laptop in "desktop" mode.

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Ooh, it's taking my eyes a little while to get used to it, but I like it.

originally posted by: blupblup
ETA: OK looks better.
All avatars were chopped in half and text was underneath avatrs and all sorts.
Much better now.

Yeah, that would have been the case for about 15-20 seconds. 17 total files to replace in various directories... so yeah, some wonkiness.




The biggest change for logged-in members is that now the mini-profile and post-height are aligned, for a much cleaner look.




and



If you make your profile backgrounds taller...




you can have some creative fun.

Ah, okay - I arrived right when the carpet spill was happening....

originally posted by: SkepticOverlord

originally posted by: blupblup
ETA: OK looks better.
All avatars were chopped in half and text was underneath avatrs and all sorts.
Much better now.

Yeah, that would have been the case for about 15-20 seconds. 17 total files to replace in various directories... so yeah, some wonkiness.




The biggest change for logged-in members is that now the mini-profile and post-height are aligned, for a much cleaner look.




and



If you make your profile backgrounds taller...




you can have some creative fun.

Was wondering about that, at the mo it's repeating the image and it doesn't look very good.
What's the new dimensions good sir?

originally posted by: SkepticOverlord
So anyone experiencing short-term wonkiness will know why.

Making several tweaks to the overall look-and-feel. More modern, less rounded corners.

And a surprise for desktop users.

Stay tuned.

Would the desktop surprise have anything to do with free Slim Jims?


Ooohhhh pretty fancy

So, longer posts will just have "tiles" of the avy/background running one under another? I don't like that. I'd prefer the avy be nicely displayed at the top once, and not repeated.

originally posted by: BuzzyWigs
So, longer posts will just have "tiles" of the avy/background running one under another? I don't like that. I'd prefer the avy be nicely displayed at the top once, and not repeated.

Same... it looks bad... BUT I'm hoping there'll just be new dimensions and the avatar/background image will just be as it used to be, cover the whole post.

I really hope so.

Hmmm....although! It would be cool if we could "assign" avy designs to run in sequence more like a vertical slide show.

If a short post, the normal or whatever assigned avy; if the post runs longer, maybe a different avy... using two or more favorite mini-profile configurations could be fun.....

But, so far I see from this that you only get whatever part of the avy is left - like tiles cut to lay on a floor.

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WHOA!

That was trippy!

I look away for 10 minutes, come back and everything was different...lol

Looks good so far!

originally posted by: blupblup
Was wondering about that, at the mo it's repeating the image and it doesn't look very good.
What's the new dimensions good sir?

I'd recommend 1200 pixels tall, and making sure the colors at the top and bottom are the same for attractive tiling, if it happens.