Wedge

Sure, but if there are many people, you would put the emphasis on your friends, wouldn't you...?

I just don't think that it's of any importance.

Yeah, it's cool to have your friends listed in the Like section (only your friends though...), and have a link to get a list of everyone who liked something. But in the end, what happens is that people don't care much about who liked something... They'll be likely to ignore the notice, and instead rely on positioning (i.e. they'll think that if some post is better liked, then it'll be positioned to its advantage in the list.)
That's mainly for topics, though, not for individual posts...

rev 1262
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* I'm going to go slowly with that editor rewrite mentioned on the forums... First, I'm committing things not related to removing (or keeping) the iframe. Then we'll see where it starts to go crazy. (editor.js)

  - Removed blur/focus functions for IE. They weren't in use anyway.
  - Removed unprotectText, integrated it in the only place where it was used.
  - Removed debug breadcrumb, probably of some use to the SMF devs back in the day. Not anymore.
  ! Do not test for the existence of pasteHTML on a Range object that could very well be set to null...
  ! Fixed BBC tags being added in reverse order if the cursor is at the start of a line (in Chrome and Opera at least.)
    @ As suggested in SMF's bug report #4071, but never applied to SMF itself.

* Moved surroundText and replaceText back into the editor object. I figured that they're too specific to be decently usable by plugins. They might as well write their own code (or just copy it from there, not an issue.) (post.js, editor.js)

* The Send PM page didn't have the right title. (PersonalMessage.php)

- Removed MegaVideo from Aeva's video site list. In case you didn't hear on the news, it would seem that they're gone for good... (Subs-Aeva-Sites.php)

Okay, bit more contrast, and switching to a font I always liked but never tried for fear that it looked too much like a 'cool' font. (Don't ask.)
Readability is pretty good now. :)

:edit: Just for fun... A silly one ;)
:edit: This has got to be the simplest logo I've done since my monochrome one which Bloc liked so much... I'm sure he'd love that one, too! Still, did you notice how I tend to make something very sober, and then add stupid details to it until it becomes unbearable? And here it only took me 3 steps to reach that point... Eheh.

I have no idea who likes what at this point, and for what reasons ;)
I for one would be happy to see my logos on restaurant menus... :P

Here's another before I go to bed. Spent too much time on this freakin' editor... -_-

"Rest" means "other features (design decisions) in the logo"...Not sure, personally. Uppercase, in this case, was so much easier to read that I could afford to remove the drop shadow...Always hard to find the correct balance.

Posting a few tries I made yesterday, so they're not the most recent. Maybe you'll like one..?

:edit: And another few tries... Meh.

Just a few notes...

- The current badge in the sidebar looks fantastic. However, I never got around to making it readable in small sizes. That's important to me -- we need to have a logo that is great in both large and small shapes.

- I actually never got bored of the 'simple' version (first choice in the poll). I tried doing more complex logos, but it's, once again, proving hard. I was satisfied with the 'framed' logo, too, but wanted a version that also worked horizontally. Hard, hard, hard.

- More annoyingly, the current logo in the bottom-right corner of the demo site (http://wedge.org/minilogo.png) still is my favorite when it comes to small logos. It has an extreme simplicity to it. I'll keep making tests around it, but I'm afraid I stupidly lost the original unresized file for it... :-/

- So, I made a few attempts that I posted above (unrelated to the minilogo). I didn't 'bump' my post because they weren't meant to be publicly debated (I will often post logos to see how they fare in a forum environment, then delete the attachments. This time I didn't delete them because they were referred to by later posts.)

- I'm posting my latest attempts. As you can see, they're only in SMALL sizes, that's because I want to stress-test their readability. The background color is subject to change, I may even remove it entirely although it's unlikely because it's important to the overall balance... As you can see, the idea was to get a compromise between text size compared to icon -- small text vs large icon in the sidebar badge (last poll choice), and large text vs small icon in the sidebar logo when you hover the badge (i.e. first poll choice). I also reversed the icon on its vertical axis, I feel it's an interesting variation. Finally, I made two versions: one with the lowercase text and drop shadow, one with uppercase text, and no drop shadow.

Do you think this is an interesting direction for the logo...?
They look *great* in the footer for the new skin (which I'm not making public, or even private, yet), but a bit disappointing on brighter backgrounds like here.

You mean you've lost interest, or you think you've lost the required skill? :-/