Dance of the Title Fairy: Accepting Applications

[Thestatusquo]

I think the rainbow text is actually the most Alisa part of the nom.

That might be true, but it does nothing to make it less terrible from a forum use perspective.

[Alisae]

On the subject of rainbow and spoiler tags for titles (and this is just in general but I wanted to look into this some more ~for science~)

On mafblack, it looks like this:


On mafSilver, it looks like this:


So while its perfectly fine on mafblack, on mafsilver its kinda hard to see the c (MafSepia has the same problem)
This is mostly just a problem with the rainbow text and could be fixed based on how you configure it here
(my current settings are as follows
# of colors: 7
Color Preset: Rainbow
Colors (in order): #f00, #ff7f00, #ff0, #0f0, #0ff, #00f, #00f, #8b00ff)

Next, I don't exactly have screenshots, but ANY color over the spoiler tag actually looks terrible for mobile users, because the spoiler is so small, that spoiler tag won't cover the whole phrase.
it'll look something like this

l

o

l

b

a

l

a

n

c

e

Except of course the text will be smaller, but this should be close enough to demonstrate the problem with any color on spoiler tag.
I mean this COULD be solved with more code, but I think that could be a hassle.

[PJ.]

I think the rainbow text is actually the most Alisa part of the nom.

That might be true, but it does nothing to make it less terrible from a forum use perspective.

I agree and I think that's part of what makes it shitty just not really the part I care about. The part that's most "Alisae" is also the part that psyche is definitely not going to give him

[Creature]

Someone still thinks lolbalance is a good title?

[Alisae]

But basicly my point is maybe Spoiler Tags and Colors shouldn't be used in titles?

[Thestatusquo]

On the subject of rainbow and spoiler tags for titles (and this is just in general but I wanted to look into this some more ~for science~)

On mafblack, it looks like this:


On mafSilver, it looks like this:


So while its perfectly fine on mafblack, on mafsilver its kinda hard to see the c (MafSepia has the same problem)
This is mostly just a problem with the rainbow text and could be fixed based on how you configure it here
(my current settings are as follows
# of colors: 7
Color Preset: Rainbow
Colors (in order): #f00, #ff7f00, #ff0, #0f0, #0ff, #00f, #00f, #8b00ff)

Next, I don't exactly have screenshots, but ANY color over the spoiler tag actually looks terrible for mobile users, because the spoiler is so small, that spoiler tag won't cover the whole phrase.
it'll look something like this

l

o

l

b

a

l

a

n

c

e

Except of course the text will be smaller, but this should be close enough to demonstrate the problem with any color on spoiler tag.
I mean this COULD be solved with more code, but I think that could be a hassle.

The thing you call fine looks terrible and distracting to me. In fact, I hate when people talk in colored text on the forum in general because I find it VERY hard to read regardless of configuration, with rainbow being by far the worst. I've PMed several mods to tell them that I couldn't read their mod text before. Reading rainbow text is VERY difficult for me, and it is also very distracting.

Pedit: Yes. To your last post. Pls.

[Thestatusquo]

Also, the mobile thing you're discussing actually sounds like a CSS bug that we can fix pretty easily. Let me look into it.

[Annadog40]

I find small text to be worse for me.

[Thestatusquo]

I find small text to be worse for me.

Worse than what? In what context? Whats your point? I know its your shtick to be vague and non-sequitur but could you please try to be a little more focused when posting in serious parts of the site?

[vonflare]

dear lord

[Annadog40]

Visually

The context is reading text. Hardly non sequitur.

[Thestatusquo]

Visually

The context is reading text. Hardly non sequitur.

What is the relevance to this discussion? Are you suggesting that because reading small text is hard that reading rainbow text is fine? I don't understand your point. Mainly because you have not made it explicitly.

[Psyche]

i never really thought about the visual impact of having a title like that above a username all the time

[Thestatusquo]

Heres a quick mock up I just did for a demonstration.

[Thestatusquo]

Also, panzer might want to pay close attention to the pronoun listed there for when he keeps referring to Alisae.

[Alisae]

Also, panzer might want to pay close attention to the pronoun listed there for when he keeps referring to Alisae.

I don't care about what pronoun people refer me as, it used to be he
now its e
if you want to use she, that's ok too

[Thestatusquo]

Also, panzer might want to pay close attention to the pronoun listed there for when he keeps referring to Alisae.

I don't care about what pronoun people refer me as, it used to be he
now its e
if you want to use she, that's ok too

Fair enough, my mistake. Sorry panzer!

[Espeonage]

Why are you showing on black and silver? Is there anybody who doesn't use sepia other than you even around?

[Thestatusquo]

It's almost like you don't know what you're talking about.

[PJ.]

Also, panzer might want to pay close attention to the pronoun listed there for when he keeps referring to Alisae.

I don't care about what pronoun people refer me as, it used to be he
now its e
if you want to use she, that's ok too

Fair enough, my mistake. Sorry panzer!

[Psyche]

i don't think colorful formatting in general is particular tough to stomach, at least in mafsilver
it's right there adjacent to the generally colorful avatar, after all
but in this particular case, the rainbow on black highlight thing seems like an eyesore in and of itself

[Gamma Emerald]

Kk and Panzer both forgot me, but hey. Neither title of mine are particularly good and the reason I took this one is so I didn't get memes on every post I ever wrote.

Don't worry ani-- the club of "people forgotten by both KK and Panzer" also seems to include zoraster, so you're in good company.

Also LLD is a two-title person

[Shaziro]

I thought it was pretty clear that Annadog was saying that small text is even harder to read than rainbow text. Why does that have to be taking away from your point (which I agree with) that rainbow text doesn't make for good titles?

[Kublai Khan]

I thought it was pretty clear that Annadog was saying that small text is even harder to read than rainbow text. Why does that have to be taking away from your point (which I agree with) that rainbow text doesn't make for good titles?

I think because it's irrelevant. Nobody is proposing a small text title so it's a pointless point to interrupt with.

[Thestatusquo]

^^^^^^^^^^^^

Theres a reason that serious discussion shouldn't have non-sequiturs and vague contentless points every other post. It's because its impossible to carry on a conversation if you keep getting bogged down with irrelevant sidebars. Annadog's shtick is to make posts like this, which is fine, but I wish she wouldn't do so in the non-gd/se parts of the forum.

If you have something to add, by all means add it. But stop interrupting a conversation about whether x thing is good to interject nonsense about not liking y.