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Felix/Train/Whatever They/Them Mongoose-Teeth is my main Lioden ID: #88714 Wolvden ID: #8676 Flight Rising: RailwayDecay *Haggling is allowed on all sales, buyout price is just a starting point*

[elodieunderglass]

Can you re-describe your flight rising lying story? I’m afraid I don’t know it and I can’t find it on your blog anywhere

Ah sorry you can’t find anything on this blog! But when I tricked Flight Rising, it was about birthday dragons.

At some point before the 2millionth dragon was born, I noticed that dragons were being hatched with IDs like 19890902. That’s a birthday!

So naturally I went and submitted a post on the anonymous tumblr confession blog DramaRising, where unhappy people complained about dragons. This was my only post on this blog, which I did not even follow or read. I simply went in to a random dive bar, dropped an explosive, and left.

The post was something like, “I’ve just found my birthday dragon. Be sure to get yours quick!” I believe there was no further explanation of what a birthday dragon even was? I was just momentarily possessed of a spirit of mischief.

Carnage ensued.

Everyone assumed that it was an established new trend, and they were FRANTIC to secure theirs. They posted their birthdays online, threads sprang up, and there was a surge in activity. Cheeky people were exalting birthday dragons to the great woe of the dozens of players sharing these birthdays.

Eventually one of the mods posted that it was now dragon-illegal to post a dragon ID with reference to it being a birthday.

Many of the threads have been deleted, but for example in 2018 people were still talking about it.

Here’s a Reddit thread in which a better historian than myself recalled them selling for 20 million coins.

Nobody could figure out how the trend had started … but by the time they were chasing their birthday dragon, it was already well under way. The trend was a trend! It was trending! It made sense! You only had one chance (or two, if you used USA/UK style dates) to get it, you were competing with others, it was unique and random and could never be repeated… the conditions were perfect for a wild frenzy. It was very funny and good.

There is another punchline: I do not own my own birthday dragon. Someone else has it. It would have been SMART to secure my own birthday dragon before setting off an illegal stock market surge in birthday dragons, but i did not, because…

… i have never cared very much about dragon IDs.

lmao

[elodieunderglass]

Ahahah why is this still so funny to me

[naamahdarling]

Because it's hilarious!

[lunas-dreamv2fr]

23. Boston x Hope

[tinygryphon-58570]

siblings

[flightstalling]

Sending your dragons on vacation for more valuable children. Totally unintentional.

[railwaydecay]

I hope they fix whatever is causing the severe eye strain issues with the new UI because I only browsed and read feedback in the site forums for a little while and ended up with a migraine for the rest of the day.

[railwaydecay]

Like I couldn't give less of a shit that it's ugly now, I just want to be able to read it without feel like my eyes are being squeezed like stress balls during an eclipse.

[phantomdimension]

Flight Rising, Responsive UI, and Accessibility

What can we do? Well, if you're able to, I really suggest filing a ticket. I personally put mine under "Accessibility". But also, let's talk about just how bad this UI update is.

Users have reported...:

Eye strain; from mild discomfort to flat-out pain

Photosensitive disorders being triggered (this might be partially due to how the pages are loading between dark mode/slate and the unconverted pages)

Dizziness

Migraines

Motion sickness

... And more from the issues with the UI. They've already increased the text size in the forums and changed the font back--and that's a good start for correcting some of the issues that we're currently experiencing, but overall, a lot more work needs to be done to make things more accessible for players again. Many of us are unable to play for even a few minutes without a myriad of issues.

These issues are not a "cosmetic" issue that we can adjust to. They are literally an accessibility issue that we need accommodations for (sometimes in the form of external extensions/unofficial modifications/browser modes that are purely cosmetic and otherwise don't impact gameplay), or for the site itself to be modified.

When filing a ticket, I believe that it's best to point out some specific issues, such as...:

Contrast between backgrounds, text, and windows/boxes. This applies to all modes. The black text is too dark against the stark white background in "default"; the contrast between the text and the background in dark mode is also too bright.

There are gradients in many more places, which have been leading to more eyestrain and motion sickness.

Inconsistent text sizes across the site.

I'm afraid that my brain is blanking right now, so if anyone has any suggestions on what to add to this list, please do feel free to drop them in my inbox or on this post.

If you want a quick example of what a ticket might look like, then I'll offer one below--I would personally advise against using this as a copy-and-paste for yourself, as I don't know if their ticket system flags messages that have the same exact text as spam or not (if someone does know, I would love to hear that--if it didn't and we could confirm this, I would genuinely have no qualm about someone using this as a basic message and editing it to suit their needs/editing other issues they might be having or that I've failed to mention).

I titled mine "Accessibility Issues In Responsive Layout Themes".

Hi! I wanted to discuss a few accessibility issues with the new "responsive layout" and its themes; many users are reporting nausea, dizziness, migraines, worsened eye strain, and more from using every single theme option currently available on the site.

Specific examples of what might be leading to this and causing problems for users are the high/low contrasts in each themes; the stark white background with dark text; the inverse in the dark theme; themes not being fully converted/available across the full site (the food bar and various other UI elements being red in the dark theme, for example, is very uncomfortable for many users to look at and read) as of right now, thinner/inconsistent font sizes, how these themes interact with bios [. . .]

I would like to see these worked on, as it is currently making the site genuinely unplayable for a portion of the userbase, and perhaps, in the future, seeing these themes tested by those who might be impacted by them/who they're meant to benefit before they're deployed to a wider public.

Thank you for your time.

TLDR; The new UI/layout is genuinely a case of inaccessibility. If you've read this far, and if you've sent in an official ticket, then thank you so much for your time and energy.

[railwaydecay]

I hope they fix whatever is causing the severe eye strain issues with the new UI because I only browsed and read feedback in the site forums for a little while and ended up with a migraine for the rest of the day.

[r0ugarou-fr]

Are we not going to talk about how Shadowbinder made a dragon called the "looking at stuff real good" dragon who's lore says they love looking at stuff real good and she only gave them ONE eye

[r0ugarou-fr]

[imberrynerdy-fr]

She's also married, has kids, and a fleet of ships. I love my stinky fodder daughter

[pocketss]

new dragon discovered This is Pigeon, she’s been here for like 5 seconds and she’s already had enough.

[oddfamiliar]

Can’t get over the fact that the canon reason for the discovery of a whole-ass new species was from the desire to compare salaries

[minx-fr]

Amazing artwork by Aribis - thank you SO much! *hugs*

[ruesome-fr]

Tugend for a commission

[flightdescending]

Amperage and her doggy Wattz!!

[superparadise614870]

Commissions for Myuu (#132361) on flightrising.com.

I love Glass Animals

[tinygryphon-58570]

RE: Dawn and Quinn

Noah: I foresaw that they would get together. ^^

Rest of the Lair: ...Yeah, you and everyone else.

... is he even a real seer at all e-e

[tinygryphon-58570]

77.2% of people wanted these two nerds to finally kiss, so here you go <3

Also friendly reminder that it's the last day of Love is in the Air! Make sure you grab your things from Susie if you haven't already, before she disappears again for another whole year! ^^