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Off-topic / Re: Post count fever
« on November 30th, 2010, 10:29 AM »
That's just her act. She's a bitchy character but she ends up dating a fat Black guy with a taste for cross-dressing, so you shouldn't judge. :P
Seriously, the guy in the suit is Craig Bierko, he's funny as hell in that stint. He also played Lister (yep) in the first US Red Dwarf pilot. The one that got canned. Ah ah.

And congrats on your 2000 posts, too!
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Off-topic / Re: Post count fever
« on November 30th, 2010, 10:18 AM »
But you get to kiss the gal!

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Off-topic / Re: Post count fever
« on November 30th, 2010, 09:48 AM »
WTF is what you get :niark:

You were so inactive last week that I very slowly but surely managed to catch up with you after I was over 120 posts behind you, ah ah... I started thinking it would be cool if I reached 2k posts before you did, because that would be the only time I could ever achieve something like that... Given how you will reach 30k posts within a month once we make the website public ;)

So I'll savour this sweet victory before I see you take off to infinity and beyond!! :lol:
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Off-topic / Re: Post count fever
« on November 29th, 2010, 11:54 PM »
TWO THOUSAND POSTS! Fuck yeah!!  8-)
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Features / Re: New revs
« on November 29th, 2010, 11:48 PM »
rev 309 (I hate revs ending in "9", I usually reserve them for my crappy commits :P Well, it will be a first...)

+ Added jQuery into Wedge. YES! (jquery-1.4.4.min.js)
+ Added new setting, $modSettings['jquery_remote'], defaulting to false, determining whether jQuery should be loaded from the Google CDN or merged into script.js, cached and gzipped locally. No UI for it yet. (Load.php, index.template.php)
* Replaced own JS minification routines with a more efficient version based on Dean Edwards' Packer 2.0. (Class-Minify.php, Subs.php)
* Optimized minification by listing all variable names that can safely be renamed. (Subs.php, script.js, theme.js)
* Added a quick fix for Javascript errors when a minified file has something = function () {} without a closing semicolon. Strings containing solo "}" or "{" are not supported. I can't fix your weird code all by myself. (Subs.php)
! Fixed some Nix styling colors. (Nix/index.css)
- submitonce() doesn't actually take any parameter. (script.js, editor.js, TEMPLATES: MoveTopic, Packages, PersonalMessage, Poll, Post)

So, I guess this build will crash on everyone's machine, ah ah. It may work, too. I hope I didn't forget to commit any file (I had to add Class-Minify.php and jquery.js manually.)
If it crashes, please wait until tomorrow morning and I'll have a look. Right now I have to hurry to bed.

TOMORROW-- let's have some fun with jQuery!! ;)
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on November 29th, 2010, 10:12 AM »
Quote from DirtRider on November 29th, 2010, 08:22 AM
I think maybe we are getting used to it and it makes perfect sense. However for an outsider I think the actual wedge at the bottom would be lost on them. It seem to strike me as just a prism of glass having no real function. I like the rest of the logo looking great  :cool:
Yeah, I think we have our winner... :)
Except for the 'w' being a bit flat, but I'm sure no one will notice that.
As for the wedge icon, it may be the 'next thing to go'. Depends on the audience's reaction to it I guess... But I'm sure they'll appreciate having something 'graphical' in the logo. Also, this is what I'm using on badges right now. I could try and putting the 'we' favicon into it instead, but... Well, it always takes a long time to do these logos so no thank you for now :P

+1 Pete. It took me years to realize it was a fulcrum at all...
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Features / Re: New revs
« on November 29th, 2010, 10:05 AM »
rev 308

* Simplifying calls to the auto-suggest widget: setting sSearchType to 'member' by default until we write more suggestion types, making sSuggestId the same as sControlId (a prefix is added to it anyway so collision chances are close to zero), and bItemList already accounted for the lack of parameter. (suggest.js, PersonalMessage.js, TEMPLATES: ManageBans, ManageBoards, ManageMaintenance, ManageMembergroups, ManageNews, ManagePaid, Profile)
! Fixed syntax error in Member Tasks. (ManageMaintenance.template.php)
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Features / Re: New revs
« on November 29th, 2010, 09:43 AM »
rev 307

* Updated license.txt to Wedge's. Not many differences though. Also moved it to the root instead of a license in Themes and one in other/*. (license.txt)
* Optimized a DOM traversing function, and moved it to the inline section. (Admin.template.php)
* Gave more padding to autosuggest popups. (index.css)
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on November 29th, 2010, 07:47 AM »
Hey guys you didn't say if you liked the final logo or not :P

I just showed it to Milady. Her answer: "Mmmmmm mouais."
Which means basically in her terms, "Mmmmm it's probably the best you can do to have something usable" :P
so basically I have her approval seal. It's important to have the approval seal from someone who doesn't know shit about design ;)
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on November 28th, 2010, 10:15 PM »
I think it's an illusion... Except if others agree, of course!
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on November 28th, 2010, 09:38 PM »
I think I'm getting to it...

Previous one:



New one:



I used the opportunity to redo the 'g': vertical alignment (the g's bottom horizontal bar should now look like it sprang from the d's bottom bar), saturation and color hue should now be on par with the "ed" and "e" around it. I also reduced the distance between each letter by one pixel. It isn't obvious, but it helps create a professiona- looking logotype. Well, IMO of course.
Main issue is that I didn't manage to get the "w" to have the same obvious gradient effect... It feels a bit flat. This is because I had to redo much of the logo and I kinda mixed up the wrong files I guess. Still... For the latter, I have the PSP files (with layers). So it should be easier to work on it.

What do you think, guys?
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on November 28th, 2010, 03:49 PM »
Quote from Arantor on November 28th, 2010, 02:20 PM
I had to stare at the favicon to see it the first time, and the only time it's actually visible at a glance is when it's the active tab in Chrome; when on the dimmed/inactive tab, you have to really stare at it to find it.
Yeah, I was just being a bit nitpicky...
So, do I redo the logo using exactly the same, except for the line that should be removed?
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on November 28th, 2010, 09:36 AM »
Quote from Arantor on November 27th, 2010, 11:18 PM
Most of it was lots of very similar changes when you think about it - a lot of the inline changes were actually quite small but numerous: change the start, change the indentation and change the end. TortoiseSVN + WinMerge handled it just lovely :)
Does WinMerge also change the color of lines when they're just being respaced/reindented, i.e. with no code logic changes?
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Of the logo, the current incarnation is great but I think you're right that it is about as far as you can go stylistically without being too 'busy'. The stylised line in the we is probably the least interesting detail in that logo, though.
I thought so, but OTOH the line is (albeit barely) visible in the favicon, and it's nice to have it in there. Of course, there's nothing that forces us to have a graphical detail in both the favicon and the big logo, it's just slightly better.
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on November 28th, 2010, 09:29 AM »
Quote from Bloc on November 28th, 2010, 12:18 AM
If you aren't happy with whats been created thus far, then they are all "wrong" and you should start over and rethink it. IMHO.
No, no... I think the logo looks great.
It just doesn't strike me as PERFECT.
Just like Curve doesn't strike me as perfect even though it's a great theme. Just like Wedge's theme isn't perfect at all, etc. So I'm always trying to outdo myself... And I think you are, too. Which is why I'm concerned that you're feeling rejected when I'm only encouraging you to try to outdo yourself. :unsure:
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The Pub / Re: Logo Madness (Was: New revs)
« on November 27th, 2010, 10:14 PM »
On topic:
I've uploaded a slightly modified logo (very slightly... Colors, position etc.), with the wedge icon in it. I think it's really the most 'crowded' we can afford to have. Maybe it's too much (stylized g + stylized line in 'we' + icon + slogan + two different colors for the text), actuallt it probably is, but I'd like to figure out what's *least* interesting in that logo, and thus can safely be removed.