10-27-2018, 11:50 AM
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.
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.