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[JosephBoone]

Hi everyone,

As you can see, I've been a little bored over my Easter break, and what became one little idea for the forum spiralled into a series of new graphics to help liven the place up while we're stuck on this very outdated layout. I've learned more about HTML in the last few days than I have in my entire life, I'm fairly sure I'm going to be dreaming of code when I go to bed tonight

The first is that there are new gender icons, which came about after I realised we do indeed have a non-binary gender option in the profile, but no icon to go with it! So for the sake of consistency, I refreshed all of the gender icons (including the 'gender not set' icon that you'll see in people's profiles and in the member list). It was a PAIN to get everything synced up, and please be careful if you edit your gender through your profile page instead of the Edit Profile button, because I'm not sure the two marry up, but that applies to the male and female options as much as non-binary so may have been a problem before I got there. However, I would LOVE to add more gender options! Of course, there are many options out there, and quite frankly I wouldn't know where to start when adding a comprehensive list to Buzzjack, especially when I'm not sure how many would be of use. Therefore, if you'd like to see your gender, or any other genders, represented on the list, please let me know in this thread or via PM as I'd be keen to add them (and I'd probably want to add a few in one go as it's a pretty laborious task). For now, I hope the non-binary option can be useful to some of you (I know it is to me until I get around to adding something more specific).

There are also some new graphics down the bottom of the index page of the forum. It was looking a bit depressing and clunky so I jazzed it up with a few emojis and I restructured it just a little to get rid of the dead space.

I'm sure you've noticed by now the new group tags that each poster has. These have replaced the ambiguous blue dot graphics that increased with post counts - don't think I've ever heard anyone talk about these in my entire time here...! They've also replaced the need for the simple text field that listed a member's group (member, moderator, admin, etc), and I've been able to restructure the profile field to the left of each post. It includes all of the same information, just presented more neatly.

If you're looking for the gallery information that used to be in this area, you can now view a user's gallery (or alternatively, find out that they have no gallery pictures) by clicking the dropdown box next to someone's username. I've not figured out how to change the colour of that yet so it looks a little ugly (and I'm aware a graphic is repeated!), but that's where it is. A little plea regarding the gallery - please have a look at which photos you've uploaded and decide whether you'd still like it to be up, particularly photos of yourself, as some of these go back AGES and I'm worried people have forgotten what they've put on here. Alternatively, if you see something that you figure probably doesn't NEED to be in the gallery anymore, please don't hesitate to delete - it's so cluttered that it's stressing me out if I'm being totally honest x

There's every chance I'll be looking at some other little tweaks this week and I'll update you guys as I do! Would very much welcome any suggestions you guys have too, don't hesitate to let me know and I'll try and figure out if we can implement it. For now, I hope you enjoy the slightly refreshed look!