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3 more projects :)
if any of them catch your eye i've got their pinglists set up so you can subscribe :)
Bad news gamers, the Book of the Grotesque pair is even rarer than Light Light!
Why I keep doing this to myself, the world will never know :)
Oh! I can maybe help with this one - Near double blues with browns is fun, definitely not common-- I can get you clay/abyss xyy (or could mix-match my undertide pair with another old copper prim pair and maybe get something with a closer prim but further sec/tert)
I also have a tarnish/steel-abyss/abyss modern pair who can be split up or paired as well
the AH does not look outright barren for things within 5 of each color tho-- this probably won't be near as crazy as the cream/wisteria/coral project!
I always wanted to use the stormsilk apparel, but could never find the perfect dragon until today. this is Papaver, my lairs meteorologist :)
Toli got an upgrade!
Magpie lets him keep a bit of the belly, while also giving a cute nose and some false-shimmer* on the wings! :D
Give him a boop on the snoot?
Water Lair scene for Flight Rising. Happy Wavecrest!
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 js 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.
hi flight rising community. poll about the new ui
Do you dislike the FR UI update?
Yes, I dislike one specific part, but the rest is good
Yes, I dislike a few specific parts, but most of it is good
Yes, I dislike most of it, but some of it is good
Yes, I dislike all of it
No, I feel mostly neutral about the new UI update
No, I like all of the new UI update
biased poll but i really don’t like anything that changed. every new screen i go to, i see something else that i hate. not a fan
As someone who really struggles with numbers I love the change of adding commas to our gems and treasure counts however
I dont fucking know what number this is. Just give me the full thing I'm too stupid to know what this is. Help
Could be better: side-by-side
how it is on site vs mock-ups for colored-in icons.
and Also! Mock-up the big dragon tooltip-- I attempted to make it smaller/more condensed. It could theoretically be better than this but I tried
Personally: if you've got icons for your ui use them. Use them. Use them and make sure that if it's necessary, the icons themselves say what they are for screenreaders.
ok i genuinely need to stop because i'm pissing myself off too much here but i wonder if the devs know what contrast is?
Yeah sure lets make these all the same color nothing that can go wrong here
Could be better: side-by-side
how it is on site vs mock-ups for colored-in icons.
lookin for a dragon w these colors: pear or fern / lightish red, orange, or pink range / white OR close misses so i could breed one
would pay extra for wildclaws in this range
New Project Pair: Last Light
I’ve messed around with a lot of different Vigil scries, but none of them have beat this one for me.
Like I said in the other post, this is one of the rarest color combos I’ve seen on site. There’s only 2 dragons with these colors; one of them is a g2 imp and both seem to be in dead lairs. No other way to say it: this’ll take me a very long time to get.
If you’re okay with the wait, I’ve got a pinglist on my in-progress tab for these guys. Wish me luck, haha
Forum | Pinglists | Flight Rising
The new Breed is great, but I have discovered a new kind of anguish. I have never had the desire to stack tertiary genes until now and I am devastated that I will never have the True Chicken Vigil. So I present What We Could Have Had, plus what if even more chicken.
Cream/Wisteria/Coral
There are only 2 dragons with this combo and one of them is a g2 imp
The first portion of my commentary was in the tags, but, if you wished to attempt a breeding project for just the colors, pair these two who are currently on the AH, 14kt total:
Breed, raise, and train dragons on Flight Rising!
Breed, raise, and train dragons on Flight Rising!
The search for said colors (tolerance: within 5 colors of cream/wist/coral)
Their range be 2x5x3 so 1/30 but like it's the best on the ah I think?? Not super familiar with that color range and the spacing tbh!
her: you better not be drawing the rest of the bird on vigil F with the Rooster tertiary gene when I get there
me:
I love their giant necks, that thing slams into you and you're getting launched 100 feet away
This is an animal that throws its weight around because it knows you can't stop it
