Originally posted by @pap
Underneath the surface, things are already happening. Every time someone gets mentioned, we record :-
1) Who mentioned them.
2) Where they were mentioned.
3) What they were mentioned as..
Fuck, scaryā¦
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Fair enough.
Iāll give it a fair go.
If nothing else it gives us an opportunity to introduce members to some of our more dusty and unexplored usernames: @mike-hunt
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None taken.
I can see the benefits - Iām just struggling with the design on my lap top. All the strong bold, bright colours, are really distracting, making it harder to readā¦
Is there any need for bolding? Can we go for something a bit more subtle like a nice underline, or just a colour change?
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Noooooo! They got Lou as wellā¦
My evenings viewingā¦
Originally posted by @areloa-grandee
Originally posted by @pap
Underneath the surface, things are already happening. Every time someone gets mentioned, we record :-
1) Who mentioned them.
2) Where they were mentioned.
3) What they were mentioned as..
Fuck, scaryā¦
Beat me to it, Chutters.
Mainly due to me not having a fecking clue how to. Nor the inclination to learn.
@couldnātgiveatoss.
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Originally posted by @pap
- will drive a lot of the fun around here. I knew up front that people would try to fuck with the names, so rather than resist that, I thought Iād capitalise on it. So when I refer to my co-mod as a @saintbletch -that gets recorded as something he gets called. Later on, weāll be able to do fun charts which show peopleās nicknames.
Interesting!
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1984?
Fuck off. Where were you lot when I was complaining about the Snooperās Charter or the fucking Enabling Act?
Horse has well and truly bolted on that one, fine fillies.
Next time, Iād advise keeping a closer eye on your government than you do with web devs, eh @areloa-grandee ? 
Originally posted by @areloa-grandee
Originally posted by @Coxford_lou
I can see the benefits - Iām just struggling with the design on my lap top. All the strong bold, bright colours, are really distracting, making it harder to readā¦
Is there any need for bolding? Can we go for something a bit more subtle like a nice underline, or just a colour change?
Noooooo! They got Lou as wellā¦
I was trying to be nice as Pap has obviously put a lot of work into this, and you lot are being meanies!!
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This is how it looks in a message:
This is how it looks on the home page:
Is that how it looks for everyone else?
@coxford_lou , if youāve got the time to mock up some colour alternatives Iāll create a poll to see what people prefer.
In fact, you donāt have to mock them up, just give the web colour codes (#000000-#ffffff) for background/foreground, and Iāll create the mock-ups and put up a poll.
My autism kicks in when I see garish colours (no offence @pap ) so I had to change mine by editing the CSS for the site.
On fonts, I can also point you to the font choices that we have too. ( @pap do we potentially have access to all of the web fonts in the Google Fonts repository?)
I guess that in the FULLNESS OF TIME (dev speak for may never happen), we can have user settings for the colours and fonts that the site uses.
OK - if you can send me stuff now, Iāll have a go tonightā¦ But I donāt think it needs to be much different to how it is now - just stripped back a bit. Is there a reason it needs a different font colour and different background colour?
Font wise, itās probably more of a testing issue. I think Pap has chosen a nice font, it just doesnāt look so nice on desktop.
Originally posted by @Coxford_lou
This is how it looks in a message:
fk off it looks bigger than that
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What font is this, btw?
Originally posted by @Bearsy
Originally posted by @Coxford_lou
This is how it looks in a message:
fk off it looks bigger than that
Youāre definitely well stacked!
All you need to do is pick some foreground/background colour combinations for the mention where the name is not interfered withā¦
and for where the poster has been interfered withā¦
There is no need to have a background colour at all, but I think papās thinking is that the colours need a significantly different treatment so that they stand out and are each differentiated. This is easier with a background colour.
We need normal text (currently black on white), a normal mention (currently red on grey) and interfered-with mentions (currently blue on yellow).
With a white background, these three colours will have to be different enough so we can see the different text types (normal/mention/interfered-with mention).
Teaching you to suck eggs here, but that means standing out on a retina display in your living room as well as on a mobile in bright sunlight.
Obviously, @pap went for some colours with a Saints connection.
Thereās your brief, @coxford_lou . Donāt let us down!
*Sorry for interfering with you, @coxford_lou , but you were asking for it**.
**Literally.
Iāll have a go, but donāt expect too much - Iām not a web designer!