Yeah, that's pretty much how the change is gonna hit us :)
:(
Some things will be grrrrrrrrrrreeeeeeeat!
Some things will be shiz, but HOPEFULLY improve later- ie template editing.
-There is NO way to get around or minimize that one. It IS a sticking point, for ME specifically more than anyone else, because I've always had and been very protective of my own template, I've personally edited or created the templates for 10s of users, made two of the most popular template styles for the DD templates, and I've known about Lawrence's plans for this aspect way before anyone else except Skoolmunkee and argued bloody damn hard against them.
SO yeah… Some things will be cool, but on that one I remain to be convinced. I really do.
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LAST DAYS....
I haven't been a DD member for even one year yet, but I'm already feeling nostalgic for "the old place".
It's like we should be taking a variety of screenshots to remember the family homestead.
Dear god, same here, I'm not at all a 'veteran' user, but I really do feel attached to DD. I will miss the old duck, with its sometimes slow and crappy connection, with its dull grey forums coloured by humourous avatars…
But I am definately looking forward to the changeover. Though, fairly scared too. Nervous, or apprehensive are probably better words, actually. It's kind of like watching a little duckling finally grow up and leave the nest (except, I probably wouldn't have allowed a duckling to get "drunk", that would be unnacceptable!)
I'm definately looking forward to improving the site and putting on my protective glasses so I don't get eye cancer from the garish colour scheme, but hey, I'm willing to do that stuff for the Duck.
And as long as we're using the metaphor of a Car, I'd like to call it the Duckmobile, with 100 quacks to the litre.
I'm definately looking forward to improving the site and putting on my protective glasses so I don't get eye cancer from the garish colour scheme, but hey, I'm willing to do that stuff for the Duck.
Haha, reminds me of this:
:)
-A song about the immediate future that's right up there with Shiny Shiny for wonderful upbeat sound coupled with a slightly opposite message in the lyrics.
We should all post self pics of ourselves with Sunglasses in the self pic thread in homage to DD's future! B)
why this is Bigger than the discovery of sliced bread!! It's THE better mousetrap!!https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/color-that-site/
Works with FF 5.0, and it seems to work with the Duck preview site :D
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I can't seem to figure out how to change colors individually… not sure if you can. But you can change the whole palettes of foreground and background separately until you get something that doesn't cause eye aches.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/color-that-site/
Works with FF 5.0, and it seems to work with the Duck preview site :D
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I can't seem to figure out how to change colors individually… not sure if you can. But you can change the whole palettes of foreground and background separately until you get something that doesn't cause eye aches.
I was playing with it on the preview site when I found it after I saw it reccomended on another site I'm at regularly which just changed it's color scheme.
It might have been a glitch of timing, but it stripped out most background art on the comic pages.
I was playing with it on the preview site when I found it after I saw it reccomended on another site I'm at regularly which just changed it's color scheme.
It might have been a glitch of timing, but it stripped out most background art on the comic pages.
Yeah, I can definitely see it doing that. It turned the little BG pattern on the homepage into a solid color matching the color scheme changes. (Or wait, do you mean the actual art in the comic page, or just the background art of the layout?)
I think there's a way to stop it from attempting to change images. Or either way, there might be a way to set it up so it only changes the homepage and forums, and not comic pages. I'm gonna go mess with it some more and see if I can figure that out.
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While changing the colors of a page, in the settings tab there's a FOLDER option– if you use that option and save it for the forums it'll only change the forums and nothing else. No option I've tried on the homepage preserves the comic pages, but that may just be the way the preview site is set up right now.
So at the very least the place where you'll spend most of your time can be edited without harming comic layouts.
Also there's a Chrome extension called Stylebot that seems to let you change color schemes, for the Google users.
I keep waiting for them to do this announcement… maybe they're waiting to see if the data migration will be done on time, that's always taken longer than they expected before.
Anyway the main things will be:
If you have side pages (where you've uploaded the HTML file yourself), make sure you have a copy of that html code. You'll be able to remake it on the new site with some copy/pasting, but for whatever reason it won't carry itself over. Also, expect to have to rebuild your custom comic page HTML on the new site (and probably with only limited capability, whatever's there on the preview site now). Everything else is more or less functional and should carry over. They'll lock down the old site (viewing only, no ability to log in or make any changes) over the weekend and at some point early next week the preview site will take over the main URL and the old site will be temporarily moved to a subdomain (but I think you still won't be able to log into it).
I keep waiting for them to do this announcement… maybe they're waiting to see if the data migration will be done on time, that's always taken longer than they expected before.That's how you do it?
Anyway the main things will be:
If you have side pages (where you've uploaded the HTML file yourself), make sure you have a copy of that html code. You'll be able to remake it on the new site with some copy/pasting, but for whatever reason it won't carry itself over. Also, expect to have to rebuild your custom comic page HTML on the new site (and probably with only limited capability, whatever's there on the preview site now). Everything else is more or less functional and should carry over. They'll lock down the old site (viewing only, no ability to log in or make any changes) over the weekend and at some point early next week the preview site will take over the main URL and the old site will be temporarily moved to a subdomain (but I think you still won't be able to log into it).
…argh…
But you might want to have them make a big button about that as people don't really pay attention to the news…
If you have side pages (where you've uploaded the HTML file yourself), make sure you have a copy of that html code. You'll be able to remake it on the new site with some copy/pasting, but for whatever reason it won't carry itself over. Also, expect to have to rebuild your custom comic page HTML on the new site (and probably with only limited capability, whatever's there on the preview site now).
Reading the post it sounds like that (copying the html code) would be a pointless exercise as there will be no way to use html but only the customization tools provided. The phases that tools are provided doesn't bother me but it seems they are going back on things they assured people of not too long ago. Please correct me if I read it wrong but it sounds as though it's going to piss a lot of people off.
on the 1st. :)
Please correct me if I read it wrong but it sounds as though it's going to piss a lot of people off.Oh yeah. I'm already PO'ed with it. Supremely.
But it's not flakiness, back-flipping or prevarication- It's basically Lawrence giving an estimate of what he thought he was capable of at the time, but as the dates have gotten closer he's had to revise things. He's tried and tried, but that's what we're left with.
There is no June 31st :/
Or is there?
It's a conspiracy, I tells ya. They want us all to work extra days without pay, so they're sneaking extra days at the end of the month … just wait for February the 30th, it's coming, it's coming soon.
The Duck is part of the conspiracy, man. The sobered him up and now he's all like, stone-cold awake and helping THE MAN run the world.
End days people. The end days are here and The Duck is in control. It's all happening now, man … there's nothing you can do but wait!
If you have side pages (where you've uploaded the HTML file yourself), make sure you have a copy of that html code. You'll be able to remake it on the new site with some copy/pasting, but for whatever reason it won't carry itself over. Also, expect to have to rebuild your custom comic page HTML on the new site (and probably with only limited capability, whatever's there on the preview site now).
Reading the post it sounds like that (copying the html code) would be a pointless exercise as there will be no way to use html but only the customization tools provided. The phases that tools are provided doesn't bother me but it seems they are going back on things they assured people of not too long ago. Please correct me if I read it wrong but it sounds as though it's going to piss a lot of people off.
Your main comic page with the comic images on = have to be rebuilt using the in-house tool with no custom HTML
Your side pages like Characters or whatever = have to be remade but you will be able to copy/paste in html code for them
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