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    Posted: 06 Mar 2012 at 06:36
I have noticed that bullet points • are now showing up as diamonds with ? marks in them unless I switch Chrome's encoding from Unicode (UTF-8) to Western (ISO-8859-1). I'm not sure what other characters this might affect. The fix is easy enough (just a drop-down menu and a click) on my end to correct it, but it raises the question of "Did y'all mean to do that?"

Also just noticed:
http://www.illyriad.co.uk/terms-and-conditions

Server Error in '/' Application.

The resource cannot be found.

Description: HTTP 404. The resource you are looking for (or one of its dependencies) could have been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.  Please review the following URL and make sure that it is spelled correctly. 

Requested URL: /terms-and-conditions


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 06 Mar 2012 at 06:29
WHOO! Red stars for unread posts!!!Thumbs Up
Thanks Devs. They stick out a lot more than the yellow ones did!
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 04 Mar 2012 at 11:21
Originally posted by GM Luna GM Luna wrote:

@HM Below reference for black vs. dark blue. It's a subtle difference, but a difference. Especially to a designer. ;)




I can tell the difference, but only just.  I have two monitors--one using the traditional TN panel technology, and another using C-PVA, one of the early cheap IPS knockoffs.  If my TN panel weren't calibrated, the difference would be substantial.  On the other hand if my C-PVA panel weren't calibrated, it would be impossible to tell the difference even with all other light sources removed and the surrounding monitor shielded from my eyes.  That, and the two panels would look wildly different from each other in brightness, contrast, saturation, and even hue (and even the differences themselves would be very inconsistent), which would be pretty nasty.

Incidentally, TN panels are still the more common ones owned, but can hardly be found on the market any more (due to the IPS knockoffs getting better).  IPS panels, by the way, are the nice 1-1.5 thousand dollar displays designers use for their excellent brightness profile and accurate color reproduction.  Of course when I say designers, I mean of print media, since expecting that level of control over the images people perceive in desktop publishing is still a pipe dream.  Some of the new VA type panels are bringing us closer with excellent hardware gamma profiles and decent color reproduction, but that's in comparison to the old TN panels.  TN panels don't even support more than 6 bits of color per channel--there's no point since the error margin is much larger than the last 2 bits of precision anyway.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Feb 2012 at 21:45
Thank you, Luna. I appreciate it.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Feb 2012 at 19:14
Because change is difficult at first, I took bias against this new color scheme...  however, it is starting to grow on me.  (just thought I would say...)
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Feb 2012 at 17:33
@HM Below reference for black vs. dark blue. It's a subtle difference, but a difference. Especially to a designer. ;)


@Mara Everything in the Alliance leader thread should now be readable. 

I really am happy to just go in and fix any evergreen type threads (guides, etc) that need attention for this. Just report them to me if the original poster isn't able to fix it themselves. I'd rather be the one dealing with this than having the dev team writing scripts for font color changes rather than working on other more important things. :)

@Brisinger Thanks for finding that. We'll fix it. 

@SugarFree Sometimes things in life change. Is the saying something like, "we must adapt or die"? Or in this case... adapt or be slightly inconvenienced. ;)

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Feb 2012 at 16:43
i don't get it why can we just keep it dark?

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Feb 2012 at 16:42
Hi. I think I found a small problem with the new colour scheme. When searching in the forums it'll look like this, right?
Hot Topic
Topic: Dev Chat Livestream 2.21.12 - Submit Questions!
Forum: News

The problem here is the background of the above text is in dark chocolate, and so is the font colour of the links. The font colour of the words "Topic" and "Forum" are in black, which doesn't make it any easier to read. I'm not sure if it is a problem just on my machine, but I've tested on both Firefox and Chrome, with the same results.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Feb 2012 at 13:40
Originally posted by GM Luna GM Luna wrote:

Originally posted by Bonaparta Bonaparta wrote:


Perhaps you should remove custom colors from all past posts.
Unfortunately, there's no easy way to do that. It would have to be done manually.

The forum content exists somewhere, and can be modified.  A script could find all old articles, look for whatever constitutes "set foreground colour x", and replace it by black.  A good test article is the quest-guide:  Everybody needs it when the wiki is unavailable; and parts of it use a foreground colour suited only for a dark background.

For old read "last modified at a time with a black background", not the creation time -- the bulk update script should not touch any manually fixed articles.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: 29 Feb 2012 at 04:15
While I like the change of colors, my "Alliance Leaders, Give Us" thread isn't under my control and yet this change has made most of the replies (which make up the information content) unreadable. I don't suppose, Luna, that you could somehow format everything in that thread to black and let each poster change their text to some other color if they take the time to notice and care? Big smile
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