Announcing.... CIVGROUPS!

[Method]

maybe the flags could stay where they were, and just the civgroups move? that's a good place though

[Locutus]

If you leave a few pixels space between the flag and the icons, you won't notice the height difference (I think)...

[FlameFlash]

I love the idea, and honestly don't really care where they go... the flag and the groups toegether I'm certainly happy with. Though looking at the Canadian flag, I suppose it hasn't been converted to 19 pixels yet?

[Provost Harrison]

Interesting...

[MarkG]

hmmm now?

[Locutus]

Basically looks okay, but you'll have to wait until the avatars come back for my final judgement

[Locutus]

And there they are

Hmmm, interesting... Looks a little odd but given some time, I think I could get used to this...

[J Bytheway]

Nice feature .

It's not a big deal, but there's so much stuff listed on the left of the posts now that some of them are getting very much taller than they need be. Consider Locutus's post below - it's made twice as tall as needed just for the post content, which generally makes pages taller, and makes it harder to quickly scan through threads (Especially those like PBEM threads, with many one-line posts). It would be nice if more of these things could be optionally hidden, like the various instant messaging things for those who don't have the program in question. (It would be nice if everything else was optional too, right down to the poster name, but that's unlikely to happen).

[Immortal Wombat]

Using the light style, its not too bad, because those ugly IM buttons aren't there. They're really the only thing that stops me using the default style. Them and the light bulb perhaps.

[Locutus]

It looks okay if you display signatures

But I agree, for some of us (not me though) it would probably be a good idea if you could turn off the display of those CivGroup and IM icons. Especially if the same info is also visible in the profiles...

[Immortal Wombat]

Oh yeah, one more thing, are those images final? Lets face it, they might be practical, but pretty they ain't.

[MarkG]

feel like making new ones?

[Immortal Wombat]

any rules?

[MarkG]

1) be readable
2) all dg icons and all mp icons have the same background color

good luck

[J Bytheway]

Originally posted by Immortal Wombat
Using the light style, its not too bad, because those ugly IM buttons aren't there. They're really the only thing that stops me using the default style. Them and the light bulb perhaps.

Thanks for the suggestion - I'd never tried the light style before, but it's much nicer, now I don't have to remember what all those strange symbols across the top of the post mean .

But I still maintain my stance of "the more optional items the better".