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.
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.