So as you can tell, we have a new skin! This skin represents about 2 years of work between my day job at Zynga, Chasm, and Life. But I wasn't entirely alone, I was lucky to have some good help along the way from these fine folks
Ptoing: Worked on the original mockups for the new skin some years ago
Crow: helped a ton with server-side issues
pistachio: Did some great work on developing a new icon set. They've changed a bit since then, but the initial work was absolutely invaluable
Atnas: Gave lots of valuable feedback throughout the development as well as gathered the first batch of featured threads
CyangMou: The great work he's been doing with GoodReads is what lead to the Tag mod we now have installed
Thanks guys! And also thanks to the rest of the mods who gave great feedback along the way.
We also now have a new domain name. Read about that here:
http://pixelation.org/index.php?topic=19726.0A few things to note:Featured threads and activities:As part of our new goal as a moderating team to spark more activity and better content, we're going to start rolling out a major activity once a month and frequently highlight quality threads and place them prominently at the top of our site.
GoodReads and Tags:One of the recurring problems we deal with at this forum is the loss of really great answers/resources to common problems and questions. Part of the problem is it's currently pretty difficult to quickly find the types of threads you're interested in researching such as "dithering" or whatnot. This is where the tags mod comes in. I've completely rebuilt the tags mod to suit our needs here. It's currently turned off for regular members (we may open that to everyone to use in the near future), but mods can now tag threads with common subjects and mark when it has especially good content. In the coming weeks we will be converting our archived good reads threads into regular tags to keep an eye out for that
There will probably be issues with the skinI tried my best to keep the skin bug free, but it's very likely I didn't catch everything. If you see an issue, please let me know by posting in this thread. Make sure you provide a screenshot of the issue, and tell me what browser and operating system you're on.
Known Issues: Missing page style: who's online
Missing page style: Statistics Center
footer info widths need fixed 50%
post overflow issue with large images
avatar area of posts can overflow their width
"last post" link style
Mixed navigation font in Chrome
Redirect board icon
New posts icon needs redesign