IT'S A FORUM GUYS

DONE.

oh, i actually don't mind that layout at all! that kind of stuff is all in the sort of gray area between in character roleplaying and out of character chatting so grouping it all together still sits well with my sense of logic. and we might still do the RPer profiles as a sub subforum with that organization, since i reckon they won't be something you need to quick-reference frequently like the character profiles might be, and then we have all the profiles together.



re: character profiles, i'm not very good at making those things up from scratch, so if someone else can whip one up i can help organize and critique! but the initial sort of... producing and knowing what information should be included in a profile thing has always escaped me, haha.

so far i'm liking these colors you're adding to the forum; great job! :D my one immediate query is that in the old gray/white color scheme we had every other post being a slightly different color-- half being white and half being off-white/light grey; did you get rid of that for a particular reason? i don't think it's even a little bit necessary but it was a bit of a change so i just wondered. other things i think might need to be manually gone in and fixed, like for instance the quote/edit/etc buttons on posts. mind if i dive in at some point and rummage around/see if i can unify all the button colors and such, or do you have plans to do that as well?

ssssssooooooo it doesn't look like anyone's written code to auto-disable smilies, which is a bit of a pain but also kinda understandable considering proboards v5 has only been out since, what, late january? so what i ended up doing was manually going in and adding everything our forum recognizes as a smiley code to the censored words list so that the code goes in and comes out with [] noubbc tags to disable the smiley from happening. hopefully in the future there'll be a proper auto-disable, but for now this bandaid will do i hope!

RE icons:  Elsie that is the cutest icon evah, ohmygawd. <3  Eesh, I've never been great with pixel art, but I can see what I come up with.  I was thinking for the folder we could have a beat-up looking journal... like John Winchester's journal C: But I'm not so sure about the other one... is that a poll icon?

RE profiles:  Oh good... I'm kinda glad that we don't want to fill out huge character sheets.  I agree that it would take a bit too long, and if most of the history of the character ends up being in the roleplay they do tend to get outdated quickly.  It's a nice reference point, though.  Here is a fairly deatailed one I have from a while ago:


Feel free to go ahead and edit/suggest other sections or what have you C: (also, thank you for disabling smilies)

TJ: You don't have to of course, but if you feel like it. :) I like the idea of the journal! It'll go great with the forum background.
Ah, actually there's more of them, because there's different variations of each.

Here's the number of thread icons that exist. It's easier to make a basic one and then just change it slightly to fit all the options.

And then there's these, but I suspect half of them don't need to be changed. It's just the ones that are clearly clashing with the theme of the forum.

Oh, these pictures are very small... Maybe it'd be easier to make you an admin too, so you can go and check and change the ones you want whenever?





Yes, good, both of these are good.






AH! TJ, I missed this! It's great!

Thanks, that's great! I've been meaning to do that but couldn't find the right place to change.

And you have changed the thread summary to last-post-first for when we're writing a new post? That's so much better. I'm really liking how the subforums are coming along too, this is starting to look a proper roleplaying forum now! :)

BAM. CANADA. let me know if you want it subdivided/a separate category like the US instead of a board under non-us countries/etc! i know canada's a pretty big country, haha. and yeah i have you added as an admin so feel free to hop into the admin control panel and see what you might like to fuss with! i don't have anything specific i can think of but if you want to poke around and see if you spot anything we haven't touched on yet that's rad.

yesss, i'm glad you noticed that elsie! it's something that bugs me when i see it in forums so i jumped on the chance to fix it, but i didn't think it was big enough to specifically post an announcement about it. we're well on our way! honestly we could start roleplaying tomorrow if we wanted to, but i love the idea of making tweaks and making sure everything's PERFECT for a week before we get started.

edit: added a little send pm button in the miniprofile; it's not SUPER NECESSARY especially since there's an option under the little gear thing to send a pm, but i thought it would be convenient to have. :3

Yeah, the layout and colors look great! *v*
I don't know if this has been covered yet, but are there going to be any rules or guidelines about what each post should be like? :0 I know some roleplay groups will request at least a certain number of sentences, stuff like that. Everybody on TDF is pretty good about spelling, capitalization, and grammar, so we don't really have to worry about that. It's probably already a given, but I think everything should be in 3rd person, unless it's journal entries or texts or something like that.
*flutters away*