Post your ideas/feedback for the Charas overhaul

[drenrin2120]

huh, i never thought of it that way... charas is like a living fossil of the internet! kind of makes me love it more.

[SaiKar]

Also,

Look up to our banner, what you see? The banner countins charasets and facesets of our own characters, and worse, of people that do not even fequent anymore. It is sintomatic of a problem we have; we focus too much into being Charas, instead of focusing on what charas should be. As a userbase, we balieve *we* should be Charas, and that is why *we* are on the banner. It is offputting for newcomers, because we seem like a closed group. You'll also notice that a good chunk of signatures, etc, are just in-jokes that newcomers wouldn't get.

Should add this banner up there too!

[Razor]

No. That should be our background, tiled.

[fruckert]

I think it'd need a bit more GIF to work with that.

[SaiKar]

I mostly like the irony being that neither of them are still around.

[Moosetroop11]

XD It is a wonderful banner.

I don't necessarily think members on banners is a bad thing. New members see it and think 'hey, folks have fun here and make friends.'

Maybe they do, anyway.

[Razor]

That is some pretty delicious irony.

[DragonBlaze]

I agree Generators (and not only) require a full recode, but still I would keep the current ones live somewhere.
Not about being selfish (talking as a Charasian, not as the developer), but remember what the internet world looked like when Charas was released to the big audience (2002/2003).
No Google Maps, no YouTube, almost no dynamic websites at all... by that time this thing was OVER THE TOP for its technology and, evenif far less crowded than in past, I'd say this is the only website that survived mostly "as is" for more than 10 years. Talking Internet, that's an eternity.
So I think that while new things and changes are planned, we should really consider building a sort of "Virtual Museum" to remind it all.
Our History was more than unique, and it's a perfect example to (hopefully?) show new youthies what being passionate and creative means.

That's a great idea! The forums should be pretty easy to keep a legacy version of by just allowing users to use this theme (with some minor fixes). The rest of the content we can just keep around provide links. I may have to make some tweaks so that the main site pulls news articles/forum posts if the forums are significantly updated in order to keep it functional, but the look and feel would be the same.

I don't necessarily think members on banners is a bad thing. New members see it and think 'hey, folks have fun here and make friends.'

I'm wondering if there is a way to not have members on the banner itself, but still award members with having the their characters displayed on the page somewhere, maybe as a separate secondary banner. Being able to swap featured members in and out would be key though.

[fruckert]

Some dyanmic banner thing that displays random members of the community would be awesome.
We'd all have to have sprites/pics made of us, though.

[Razor]

We also need to increase the amount of characters in the signature field, at the moment I can't add anymore quotes, and who knows how many people will say I'm right (hint, all of you, always, forever)

[oooog]

Razor's right [shameful attempt to get in his signature.]

I only have 4 space kittens in my signature.  I need a minimum of a baker's dozen.

[Razor]

I cannae do it laddie, I dunnae have the room!

[Prpl_Mage]

I think Grandy got a good signaure coming.

I general I'd say I agree 98% with Grandy's post

[Razor]

Yes, I actually edited my post yesterday to comment on how Alex made reference to our old meme, but then I thought what if I'm reading into it too much, and then I broke out into sweat and hives and spaghetti and reverted my edit.

[Momeka]

How about your steam nickname in the profile (where the msn, icq and all the other stuff is) and remove outdated clients.