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Peregrinus
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quote:
Originally posted by LOA:
Thank god you put up and explanation.... I honestly thought my new medication was making me hallucinate... whew....

Maybe you are hallucinating, and only thought you read some posted explanation... (me=evil [Big Grin] )

I joined not too long after this scheme went bye-bye. I do rather like it. I love the total eclipse effect that's been missing from the current version of Flare. Like Nim, I also find it a lot easier on the eyes. I echo the question of "viewing options". I like this better, but I respect those who don't, and it would be nice if the option were available. Somehow. Maybe...

--Jonah

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bX
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I like the newer bluey version better. These colors have, I dunno, too much of a "THIS SI MY SIFI BUAORD! WHO WHERE LIEKS STARTREK!!" flavor, and not so much the restrained and subtler tones I've come to love. And because I went to graphic designer school, my vote counts double, no triple! I'd be curious to see MCARS, but I doubt I'd want to use for more than, say, 20 minutes. Were this look to again become dominant, I too would prefer an option to switch back to the blue.
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Jason Abbadon
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I trump you with my decade of Graphic Design credits and dusty diploma!
okay, that's enough- we're starting to sound like that assinine "Yougioh!" cartoon.

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Da_bang80
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Assinine? That cartoon is downright retarded! Who watches a show where people play card games?! Utterly moronic.

As for a custom color palette for flare. I like the idea. but it should be fully customizeable. Then we can compare each others color schemes. Although it would take quite a lot of work.

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And the wisdom to hide the bodies of all the people I had to kill today because they pissed me off.

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Toadkiller
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Oh crap we've entered the mirror Flare and I forgot to grab my towel!

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Jason Abbadon
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Yes, in the Mirror Toadkiller's genitals are much larger: cover up or be found out as the imposter and subjected to the Agonizer!

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Sol System
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This design feels closed-in and, I don't know, cavelike, which makes it great for the double top secret moderator forum, but here not so much.

On the topic of, like, selectable layouts, a page I like even though I know nothing about it.

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Charles Capps
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Unfortunately, styling a UBB is more than just CSS trickery. In particular, there's HTML changes. The way the current design and this one handle the upper left image, for example, are entirely different and incompatible.

There would be a way to allow you to choose entirely, however for each option, we end up potentially doubling the amount of disk space used, and we're already hitting the limit once a week. (Every time you visit a page, the code checks on disk to see if it already built a copy for somoene, and if so, it sends that to you instead. This saves a lot of processing power. Unfortunately, it eats disk space like candy, especially when we have search engine spiders crawling the foums 24/7. With the potential for each page to have two or more HTML styles, the total amount of space possibly needed would increase each time.)

There'll be more cool stuff down the road as far as styles are concerned depending on what the new codebase ends up looking like...

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Jason Abbadon
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quote:
Originally posted by Sol System:
This design feels closed-in and, I don't know, cavelike, which makes it great for the double top secret moderator forum, but here not so much.

On the topic of, like, selectable layouts, a page I like even though I know nothing about it.

Fuck that Jane Austin looking candy-assed jive.
I'm for the batcave look and that's all there is to it:
Charles, I'll double your supply of White if you switch to this full time, or at least let the Flameboard stay this way.

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Sol System
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What the?
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Fabrux
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The MCARS theme is what we had when Flare first opened. I remember it being like that when I first registed 7 years ago...

Which reminds me, when is Flare's anniversary, Charles? Its coming up soon...

Unless, of course, this is the anniversary memorial thingy.

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Charles Capps
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quote:

Which reminds me, when is Flare's anniversary, Charles? Its coming up soon...

Unless, of course, this is the anniversary memorial thingy.

March 12th is the official date.
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Da_bang80
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wow, it's only a week away. we should have a Flare party! I'll bring the munchies!

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Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.
The courage to change the things I cannot accept.
And the wisdom to hide the bodies of all the people I had to kill today because they pissed me off.

Remember when your parents told you it's dangerous to play in traffic?

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LOA
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I'll be the topless dancer!
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Siegfried
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Damn, seven years already. I've spent the best years of my life here. And the so-so.
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