For some reason I never noticed this til now, but this is just so weird.



I don't really get the icon at all- which is OK on other skins I guess, at least on Doomship Gloom that I'm using ( ). I'll get back to that later. What I really gotta point out is the text.

"MFGG Main"

What? Is that something anyone calls mfgg.net? It's so weird. I know "Main Site" and "MFGG Main Site" are common terms for it, but I guess it kind of implies we call the other parts of MFGG things like "MFGG Forum Site", "MFGG Wiki Site", "MFGG Discord Site" to the point where we can shorten "Main Site" to just "Main"... which isn't how we do things at all so it's bizarre. I get why we don't just call it "Home" cuz that could confuse people into thinking the link goes to the forum index page, which a lot of software just calls "home."

The worst part of it all is that "MFGG Main" and "Main Site" have the same amount of letters so it'd just fit fine to put "Main Site" there. We don't need to tell people it's for MFGG because, look:



a big "MFGG" logo is RIGHT ABOVE IT.

Basically let's re-do this. It's just weird and doesn't make a lot of sense.

Anyway back to The Graphic. I think we might be at the point where it'd make sense to have a consistent icon for each aspect of MFGG. The Forums, Discord, and Wiki links all have pretty nice icons on the main site and it'd be cool to do the same for the main site and make those icons consistent throughout the MFGG Universe. Icons are great visual indicators of what something is but it becomes a lot less useful for that when we aren't consistent with them.

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Anyway this rambling got me thinking that maybe we should re-consider what we call the "main site." I think it might be better if we don't designate any part of MFGG the "main" part of it- especially when the "main site" does a bad job of being a hub for all of the community aspects- many events don't end up on there until late in the event! I'm sure this is pretty annoying for people organizing these events. Anyway that's a bit of a tangent there. Really I think we could call it something like the "MFGG Database" or "MFGG Archive" that explains what it is better than just "main site" or w/e and doesn't give it any kind of special priority over anything else.

(10-27-2018, 11:50 AM)Evil Yoshi Toes Wrote: I always thought the icon was a little weird but never really thought about it enough to realize how confusing it would be to someone who doesn't know what the button does. I definitely do agree about consistency as well. If the main site was always represented by a yellow toad's house then it would be fine but that is not the case (nor should it be because that doesn't make sense considering the main site's purpose). We should use consistent icons on each section of MFGG and on each skin to link to them together, so if we used a little icon of Toad Town for the Forums section we'd have to make sure Forums is always under an icon of Toad Town no matter where you are and no matter what skin you are using.

I think we need to have a better way to link people to the different branches of MFGG in general. A kind of streamlined Mario 64/Sunshine sort of HUB world separate from the main site that links all the parts of MFGG in a clear way and doesn't have as extreme a hierarchy among the main components of MFGG. We could call the main site the Database and the forums the Community, or something like that (I strongly believe we should stop calling the forums "forums" because most people now won't even know what that means). Of course this probably wouldn't be possible until the new software is written, but I do think this type of change is essential to keeping MFGG alive.

(10-27-2018, 11:51 AM)Shadow Administrator Drei Wrote: The Shadow Administration approves this message.

Another alternative name I think that fits more the nature of the uploads is MFGG Resources, since Database sounds like a catalogue of intentionally selected content.

(10-27-2018, 06:22 PM)Fun With Despair Wrote: EDIT: After clicking out of the thread, I also realize how weird it is to have this cartoony MFGG MAIN thing but have "MFGG Forums" next to it in like the blandest font.

(10-27-2018, 07:15 PM)KirbyLover2048 Wrote: "Why does it matter?" is the question I'm trying to ask.

(10-27-2018, 07:21 PM)rollerC Wrote: There were a lot of times when I'd click "MFGG MAIN" thinking it would take me back to the forum index, and then I'd end up on the mainsite which I don't really use.

(10-27-2018, 07:15 PM)KirbyLover2048 Wrote:
*confusion intensifies*

I don't see what the big deal is over one small icon. Yes, you're making a suggestion to change it and are stating your opinion on why you dislike it, but in my personal opinion it doesn't seem like that much to get upset over. I've never had a problem with the icon in the first place (mainly because it never shows up in the theme I use), and while I do agree it's jarring with the actual themes used (give or take how "MFGG MAIN" looks on other themes), it doesn't seem that important to make a fuss over.

"Why does it matter?" is the question I'm trying to ask.

(10-28-2018, 01:57 AM)Hypernova Wrote: I have made some changes with the themes so all of the main site URL will say "Main Site".



Unfortunately I am not able to find the font for the New MFGG main site button. I tried to stay consistent with it.