General Suggestion Thread for The Dark City's New Design

Thought I'd point out the new favicon is awesome.

Thanks Sky!

I just updated the background too, the BFG cursers on the top right are different. Less "Reaver Looking"

The favicon is spot on! (looks so nice next to my other tabs).

To me the list of users active in the last 24 hrs is just messy. Having who is online currently is good. But more than that just detracts from the look of the site IMO.

I think it should be limited as well. It's kinda a big block at the bottom of the forum.

Plus we're trying to get a GW disclaimer text in there and that would also be a big block of text.


BTW, tweaked the logo a bit today. Still perfecting

Love the twin suns!

And I agree users on in the last 24 hours is messy.

I have removed the last users in 24 hrs thing, Ive been playing with options etc.

Also, Ive finally worked out how to add the last replied topic on the main forum, wanted to find out how to do that since we started.... However.... it looks a bit rubbish, I could probably take away the underline, italic it or bold it etc using css, all I can do is change how many characters we allow. What does everyone think?

Don't know when Lucky did the knives, but i like them the way they look now. Less spindly more meaty combatish
Never mind, they're back to what they were before last night. Still looks great though

Sky Serpent wrote:

Also, Ive finally worked out how to add the last replied topic on the main forum, wanted to find out how to do that since we started.... However.... it looks a bit rubbish, I could probably take away the underline, italic it or bold it etc using css, all I can do is change how many characters we allow. What does everyone think?

I agree it doesn't look good, besides you can get to the last reply topic by clicking on the little "document" icon, next to the last posters name.

It's sweet. There's enough contrast and I like the background fading to black as it were, when i scroll down. :-)

A sun went missing. And the old knives are back on the logo (I didn't like the old knives, looked too much like crotchet needles). The new ones looked a lot better.

I like having only one sun. It is much more symetrical! As for the knives, I think that the other ones were a bit nicer. I'm not too fussed, though.

A certain Sky Serpent intervened in something, I much prefer the one sun, as Cavash says it is symmetrical and ties it in with the background. I felt the second sun made it a bit too busy and detracted from the actual forum.

With the new knives I didn't like them, they became a bit focus rather than something in the background, the lighter steel and being in front of the lettering was due to that.

Personally, if the hilts are kept, the colour is kept and they stay behind the lettering I wouldn't mind if the blades themselves became bigger and not 'crochet', I just always imagined them as being at an angle.

There might be some point to make Glaive and Dark City letters slightly darker, they are somewhat cartoonish now.

Azdrubael wrote:

There might be some point to make Glaive and Dark City letters slightly darker, they are somewhat cartoonish now.

The logo is remaining untouched as of this point. By Orders of Sky Serpent Himself.

- Plus I like the glaives the way that are -

New name letters is too agressive colorwise and too big, my eyes almost ache look at it. I think previous was better.

What are "New Name Letters?"

No fonts have been altered for month BTW.

Really? When i look at user names they appear to be in another font, bigger and uglier. Probably just my settings.

Yeah nothing has changed in months font wise.

We have some ideas that we are cooking up but as we keep pushing the forum to the limit, is there anything new that our members would like to see?

Not from me. I like the idea of maintaning it at the moment. It's got great asthetics and's fully functional.

Personally I would prefer a smaller header; much as I think the current one is beautiful, and a fitting welcome to the site, when I am spending hours browsing the site on my letterbox-proportioned netbook, every page looks the same when I open it, and I have to scroll down to see anything.
My suggestion would be a shorter, wide page header; I would also pinch it for my Facebook cover picture!
Other than that, great site, great aesthetic!

Yes.  a better ability to post from a mobile device (eg: iphone).  

Whenever I try to add a reply from my phone the "The Dark City" banner decides to place itself right on top of where i'm typing.  

I know I'm on the dark city so I don't really need that banner.