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Happy Pride, dragons!

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To our LGBTQIA+ staff, community, friends, and family, thank you. You are beautiful as you are, and you are loved.

The world is better and brighter with you in it and we're so glad you're here. We're proud to share space with you.

Fly high, fly free, and let your voice roar!

epilepticsaints

ferret-on-pancakes

Who the fuck says "facebook it"

superjustaguyblog

The girl CIA Agent reading this <3

allegedly-human

70 retweets and 1628 quote tweets... I don't think the federal agent is having a good time

no-one-offical

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ohpsshaw

Hello, I’m here to burn your eyes.

This is Deep, my triple-gened Spiral. She’s proof that the crackle gene can make some pretty boo-boos.

888-fr

FLIGHT RISING REFACTOR: No, you're not going back.

I am seeing a lot of people ask for a toggle or a way to go back to the old site design, in a way that implies such a thing should be easy to implement. It does sound easy to implement. We have three different colour modes we can switch between, right? We can go between mobile view and wide view? They have all the old code and assets, why can't they just let people pick in their settings to look at the old site again? It's not how it works. It doesn't really matter what your feelings about the refactor are, and I'm not going to give my opinion on it here. I just want to help people understand what exactly happened yesterday and why it's pointless to ask for it to go back.

i. HOUSE

Imagine a house.

It's an old house. It's been around for a while. It was built many years ago, and it's creaky and weird but it's our house, and we like it. There's leaks and the wood is a little aged and it stands out in the block of modern flathouses, but it's still our house.

As much as we love this house, there are issues with the house. Not everybody can get into the house, or navigate in there while they're around. There are things about this house that we can't change while it's made of the same materials that it is.

This is a structural flaw inherent to the house. The house is two-storied. Not everyone can get to the second story. In terms of the site, there were features that were unfriendly for people with visual impairment, people who could only play on their phones, etc.

ii. DARK MODE & INTERFACE

What did the old site look like? Why couldn't we have dark mode? The site was built out of layers and layers of PNGs made to look exactly like the light mode interface. All the NPC images, the old message and friend request icons, they all had white backgrounds or white fragments around the image because they were made assuming the site had a white background.

You couldn't just make the background of the site dark, because every single feature and image was created assuming the background was and would remain white.

This is why the logo was 'doubling' upon itself when the refactor first launched. The Flight Rising logo was a part of the banner image. Now the banner has been removed from the image and it's a floating element on the top of the page. This means it can react when the screen is made smaller. This is the equivalent of being able to move our lightswitch.

What did the site refactor do? Among other things, it decoupled all of these in-built images and features from each other. They added repaintable 'drywall' separate from the site's structure. This was necessary so the site could be reactive. For example, the iconic red sidebar of the page was actually a background PNG with a white part for the site content and a red sidebar, built into one single background image. Now these parts are defined with CSS, which you can think of as the 'wallpaper' of the site.

Every single surface of our house can be repainted now!

iii. Rollback or toggle to old site pls??

This is the refactored site. Among other things, it's been changed to improve accessibility for everyone. It now looks a little bit more like every other house on the block, but it is still the house that we live in. It no longer has two stories to climb. It has a ramp, so people can get in and out with ease. It even has some additional rooms, and renovation is still ongoing. (The contractors are still fixing up the washroom.)

Yes, the site is now designed to be mobile friendly. It no longer has a second floor. It's going to look 'designed for mobile' (people who can't access a second floor.) It's going to look more 'modern' (because the materials people use to build houses has changed.)

People are not used to the new site, of course. Can't they go back to the old house? Why has the door location changed? They keep walking into the walls of the new building. The light switch isn't there when they reach for it anymore. This is understandable. It takes some time to get used to living in a new house. It's a big change. You're going to be fumbling at where the light switch used to be for a long time.

You may even hate how the new house looks. You may not want to live in it anymore. But you can't go back to the old house. It isn't there anymore. You can't have a toggle, because the new site is the infrastructure uploaded to the site's servers, where it is built, and while you can change the colour of the wallpapers or even move the location of the light switch on your own, the house is rebuilt and you cannot 'toggle' it back to the old house.

The database calls, the HTML, the javascript on the front and backends of the site are completely different. The walls and shape of the house are different!

iv. Conclusion

There is a reason there are bug threads and feedback forums for the refactor. You still have time to request that the washroom is a different colour, or the ramp should actually be less steep because the people it's meant for can't actually use it as it was intended. But the ramp, and the accessibility features are here to stay. Don't ask for a toggle or for the site to go back the way it was. It will not be going back to the house built a decade ago. Instead, figure out why the old site worked for you while this one doesn't.

Maybe the ramp was intended for you, but you can't actually use it. Maybe the way the door is positioned now makes it actively harder for you to use the site, in ways other than 'I don't like where it is now and I want it to go back'. Ask for the site to be repainted and improved in ways that would help you.

#fr is one of the very rare cases where I really like the ui change #and so much of that is because its more accessible!!!

sofi7032

2022 scarecrow and mad hatter👻

sandcastle-clan

these thangs are awesome

gimmethemprimals

amazing how they made arlo the most annoying and also kinda useless thing to do ever. like great i have to check back every 15 minutes to make 2 pixels of progress for about ten thousand years to get items that are on the auction house for about 5 gems

gimmethemprimals

I don’t really know how to solve the issue of arlo item deflation without an item exchange system like baldwin or sophie so really the only thing I could imagine fixing anything about arlo is just like. I dunno. Let me use every single pickaxe at once ? Let me queue up like 27 of them ? Not have it be 5 clicks to even get to digging ? Really every single thing about the digsites seems to be designed to be as annoying as possible to use while being impossible to make it worth it to even use as a site function

st0rmy-fr

this, like man, love the idea and the items themselves.... but it doesn't work in practice

pixel-dragon-tournament

Annie vs Ritazn

Annie

Ritazn

Voting ended onFeb 22

@donkeykongclassifiedsecrets’s Annie

@runic-bellgoat’s Ritazn

donkeykongclassifiedsecrets

SHE MADE IT PAST ROUND ONE YAY

People are doing additional propaganda for their dragons so ill share the fun fact that her original design before i gened her up was this

She stayed like this for a while (because i really wanted her to have capsule but i was also fond of her being a sandsurge) until the sandsurge gene expansion.

I also made a thread asking people for which genes had the desired effect (highlighting the black of orca) so shoutout to these people for helping me with her! I did end up in a different direction but seeing orca trail (and somehow orca jester. Bc harlequin) inspired me