Issue: Is this a problem??? Or is this a new thing?

[Treecko]

When I got on just now I see this??

Spoiler:

I'm thinking this is a problem, or you guys got new user group things for staff. But I'm sure it's an error more-or-less cause I'm thinking if you changed the usergroups, you have one for supporters. And the tags would of been changed too.

AWsquared AWsquared AWsquared AWsquared

 

[Treecko]

Alright then. If I can give some feedback, I like the bold names and color better, it makes things easier to tell who is who and what not. It's easier to point out the staff from the members when they're in bold so I say keep it as it was. Just a thought.

 

[Treecko]

Alright. IMO though the bold names make them a bit more identifiable than the little tags, but it's good to see you guys are experimenting with how the forum works.

 

[Squirrel]

Is it just me adoring this new format? We look so classy *.*

 

[Treecko]

Oh now I see Audy's definitely messing around now cause all of the staff are sexy now. XD I want to be sexy. :C

IDK. I think the bold names have more pop to them. That could just be me though.

 

[curiousnathan]

I agree. These new tags look awfully awkward. XD

 

[Squirrel]

If it is for some reason decided not to keep them let's at least keep them as togglable (totes a word)? Now that we've seen the future there's no going back B)

 

[Hikamaru]

I agree. These new tags look awfully awkward. XD

I agree with Nathan, the tags take up a lot of space and almost everyone's name looks unformatted. I'm all for it being an option to toggle with in the User CP like what Ozzy said, so that way if someone prefers the colored names for staff and supporters they can at least change between the colored names or the tags.

 

[Treecko]

Well if this actually stays, I would like it able to be changed back upon request or togglable as Ozzy said. As I already said, personally I think the new tags are pretty boring looking and that the old tags is much easier to identify people with. I like seeing my name as as [supporter]AWsquared[/supporter] than CS2 AWsquared. So if it becomes real I'd like to be able to just change it so I can see the colored names instead.

 

[Tsutarja]

Okay I totally didn't notice the userbars gone too, but I just now woke up and saw the change and for sure it was an eye-catcher xD

I like the change! But maybe only for posts. I think the online users should be reverted because it does take up space but I'm fine with it being on posts

 

[Treecko]

Really? D: I think these take up WAY less space than the old ones. Without the big userbars the postbits look way less cluttered.

Personally I think userbars are easier to look at and not too cluttered at all. They're easier to read too.

 

[Ivysaur]

I like the change! But maybe only for posts. I think the online users should be reverted because it does take up space but I'm fine with it being on posts

Audy I agree with this, as I told you before. Even if we remove the italics and boldings and all. Colours alone are distinct enough, at least for the who's online.

 

[Hikamaru]

Personally I think userbars are easier to look at and not too cluttered at all. They're easier to read too.

I prefer the colored usernames and userbars better like what Aaron said, they are much easier to read. I mean, if someone looks at me and asks me "Hikari, what does CS5 mean?" they'd be confused thinking it's some special rank.

I actually like my name better as [supporter]Hikari10[/supporter] rather than CS5 Hikari10. Looks less cluttered.

 

[curiousnathan]

For me, these new formats feel a lot more chunkier and less organized compared to the previous formatting. I love the idea of being able to have this format as another option, though.

 

[Treecko]

I do like having it as an option, an option I'll never use, but still if there's people who want to use it, they can and those who don't can use the colored names.

Forcing people to like it isn't good either and not everyone is gonna eventually like it or adjust to it. Not everyone still like the supporters being green, in fact I've noticed more people requesting to change their name to have normal user colors and I can see many wanting to do the same with these new tags.

 

[Tsutarja]

I'm all for at least having the option for returning to the old layout of usernames, as suggested above.

 

[Treecko]

Certainly right. I agree. I'm definitely not trying to force people to like it, but every time PC wants to change something we can't create another option to toggle it on and off to appease the people who want things to always stay the same and never change. You understand where I'm coming from?

I do get that, but if supporters can have the option to change from being green to plain, then I can't see how there can't be an option to make the new tags toglable.

 

[Elaitenstile]

Whatever led to this feature, this stuff is totally sweet. One of the reasons why I would not take a coloured username upon being a supporter is this. Like Audy said, the username really shouts out a lot. It brings attention, and often when I read posts, I feel intimidated since the username and the "Staff Admin" basically shouts an 'Oh, no' to me while posting lol. It's nice to see Audy not being so tacky with the new style lol.

(I figure coding this up must've been a real pain XD)

 

[Treecko]

Supporters switching is a matter of us changing which usergroup is the "display" usergroup. If we wanted to make these ranks optional and let people switch to which they see, I'd have to code the feature from scratch.

I'm assuming that's not easy is it? Well, as much as I want my green italic name back (and I really do mean that.), if it's not possible to have a toggle option, I MIGHT just have to try to adjust to this. :(

 

[Nihilego]

Personally, I think that being intimidated by staff is just one of those things I'll never fully understand. But, if people are actually intimidated by us and this helps resolve the issue, then it's definitely a step forward. I guess that since I don't understand staff intimidation it's hard for me to gauge how big an issue it is but I would love to see a PC where all levels of staff are better integrated with the members and this seems to be a good start with that. I never really thought about username formatting before and what its implications were but I guess it meant more than I thought. It's making me wonder what else happens that I'm totally oblivious to, haha.

As for how it looks - I think it looks pretty good! Not much better or worse than before but it feels cleaner and more to-the-point than username formatting and userbars. I'm not certain I like how it's shown in the recent visitors and whatnot but I'll either get used to it or it'll be changed somehow. But yeah, all-in-all I actually like this a lot better.

I'm assuming that's not easy is it? Well, as much as I want my green italic name back (and I really do mean that.), if it's not possible to have a toggle option, I MIGHT just have to try to adjust to this. :(

Honestly, yeah. A lot is gonna be changing on PC in the coming months (pretty big-time, we're talking) and a lot of it is gonna feel clunky or awkward or disorganised or whatever at the start, but really it just takes some getting used to. You're gonna have to get used to getting used to things, haha. It does work, though; you don't see anyone still complaining about green supporter names because most people have either grown to it or accepted that it's not a big deal now. The same can be applied to more or less anything - it's not a huge deal and most of the time if you don't like it, you'll just get used to it if you're not dwelling on reasons not to like it (Which I'm not saying you are, but this is just in general). And if you are dwelling on reasons not to like something then... really, that's more an issue on your end.