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vibe checking cus I'll Finally have time for commissions soon: would anyone be interested in some Loafing Aberrations?

Hello and thank you to everyone who has shown interest in this base!!! I'm finally settled enough I can take a handful of slots! Thank you all for your patience.

aye can i get uh………ingredients on my crepe

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jellyfish?

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you want jellyfish?

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you want fucking jelly fish?

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EDIT: Since this post is gaining traction I'm going to add: TIP! YOUR! ARTISTS! Good big tips! If you see a person underpricing themselves PAY THEM THEIR DUE! People deserve to have their work compensated properly!

I am seeing a lot of people ask for a toggle or a way to go back to the old site design, in a way that implies such a thing should be easy to implement. It does sound easy to implement. We have three different colour modes we can switch between, right? We can go between mobile view and wide view? They have all the old code and assets, why can't they just let people pick in their settings to look at the old site again? It's not how it works. It doesn't really matter what your feelings about the refactor are, and I'm not going to give my opinion on it here. I just want to help people understand what exactly happened yesterday and why it's pointless to ask for it to go back.

i. HOUSE

Imagine a house.

It's an old house. It's been around for a while. It was built many years ago, and it's creaky and weird but it's our house, and we like it. There's leaks and the wood is a little aged and it stands out in the block of modern flathouses, but it's still our house.

As much as we love this house, there are issues with the house. Not everybody can get into the house, or navigate in there while they're around. There are things about this house that we can't change while it's made of the same materials that it is.

This is a structural flaw inherent to the house. The house is two-storied. Not everyone can get to the second story. In terms of the site, there were features that were unfriendly for people with visual impairment, people who could only play on their phones, etc.

ii. DARK MODE & INTERFACE

What did the old site look like? Why couldn't we have dark mode? The site was built out of layers and layers of PNGs made to look exactly like the light mode interface. All the NPC images, the old message and friend request icons, they all had white backgrounds or white fragments around the image because they were made assuming the site had a white background.

You couldn't just make the background of the site dark, because every single feature and image was created assuming the background was and would remain white.

This is why the logo was 'doubling' upon itself when the refactor first launched. The Flight Rising logo was a part of the banner image. Now the banner has been removed from the image and it's a floating element on the top of the page. This means it can react when the screen is made smaller. This is the equivalent of being able to move our lightswitch.

What did the site refactor do? Among other things, it decoupled all of these in-built images and features from each other. They added repaintable 'drywall' separate from the site's structure. This was necessary so the site could be reactive. For example, the iconic red sidebar of the page was actually a background PNG with a white part for the site content and a red sidebar, built into one single background image. Now these parts are defined with CSS, which you can think of as the 'wallpaper' of the site.

Every single surface of our house can be repainted now!

iii. Rollback or toggle to old site pls??

This is the refactored site. Among other things, it's been changed to improve accessibility for everyone. It now looks a little bit more like every other house on the block, but it is still the house that we live in. It no longer has two stories to climb. It has a ramp, so people can get in and out with ease. It even has some additional rooms, and renovation is still ongoing. (The contractors are still fixing up the washroom.)

Yes, the site is now designed to be mobile friendly. It no longer has a second floor. It's going to look 'designed for mobile' (people who can't access a second floor.) It's going to look more 'modern' (because the materials people use to build houses has changed.)

People are not used to the new site, of course. Can't they go back to the old house? Why has the door location changed? They keep walking into the walls of the new building. The light switch isn't there when they reach for it anymore. This is understandable. It takes some time to get used to living in a new house. It's a big change. You're going to be fumbling at where the light switch used to be for a long time.

You may even hate how the new house looks. You may not want to live in it anymore. But you can't go back to the old house. It isn't there anymore. You can't have a toggle, because the new site is the infrastructure uploaded to the site's servers, where it is built, and while you can change the colour of the wallpapers or even move the location of the light switch on your own, the house is rebuilt and you cannot 'toggle' it back to the old house.

The database calls, the HTML, the js on the front and backends of the site are completely different. The walls and shape of the house are different!

iv. Conclusion

There is a reason there are bug threads and feedback forums for the refactor. You still have time to request that the washroom is a different colour, or the ramp should actually be less steep because the people it's meant for can't actually use it as it was intended. But the ramp, and the accessibility features are here to stay. Don't ask for a toggle or for the site to go back the way it was. It will not be going back to the house built a decade ago. Instead, figure out why the old site worked for you while this one doesn't.

HEY YOU. TUMBLR PEOPLE. FRIENDS. April Fools is in 2 days! And this is not a joke from yours truly. If you want the invisibility cloak, save 50kt in advance! (It is also likely that the effects from last year will become available again, though idk for sure. There are also a couple of other items beyond gravel lol.) If you do NOT want to see the event whatever it is, please make sure you have this disabled- it's in the Account Settings near the bottom. You can still go into Marva's shop regardless, this just prevents the visual stuff from happening.

The buyer wants a dragon that doesn’t exist. They are searching frantically, waving around a crude drawing with the imagined details and shouting Bump! occasionally. Desperation takes a hold of the buyer. Please. It’s invaluable; they’ll pay you 3 gems and their left shoe if you can show it to them, this dragon that does not exist. 

The thread starter is one and a half sentences long, 5 words are misspelled. You can’t tell what they want, so you move on. You check back later to find that the sentence has been replace by a heartfelt description heavy with lore and flowery prose. Reading it brings you to tears. You still cannot tell what they want.

The buyer details out reasonable specs, not too broad and not too narrow. everyone shows them dragons that fit the bill. the thread goes on for 7 pages. It keeps going. The buyer cannot find the dragon that they want. The page count approaches infinity. Sellers are running out of dragons to show. They are becoming afraid; desperate. The buyer can not be appeased.

You scroll through the titles and see countless buyers asking for Cryface. The dragons flow in from every flight, forming a magnificent procession, gilded and gleaming. This one is gold. Three sisters march in front of the buyers, all in identical blue. Where is she, the buyers lament. Show us the Crystal Facet. They cannot see the dragons right in front of them. Red tears stream down their faces.

Black is not dark enough, red is not rich enough. They never have been. The shadows demand the sheen of Obsidian, the plague-touched tinge of Crimson. This request is half-whispered between the lines, the reasons never spoken aloud. You dare not question it.

Do not ping the buyer. Do not speak to the buyer. Do not make eye contact with the buyer. Approach slowly, chant the hymn of prices, and leave your dragons at the alter. Run. No matter how much they plead with you, do not look back.

They want a double, a triple, no near misses. You take aim. The colors bleed into each other as you prepare your dragons, hands stained. You write the results down. XYY. XXY. XYX. You pray to your flight’s god that you did not miss.

Will accept items for trade, the sign says. Which items? You offer it all the scrolls in your house. Not enough, the sign says. You place the ritual objects at its feet, from festivals long past. Not enough, the sign says. You give live captives, several hundred pounds of dead fish, and finally the apparel off your back and set them all neatly atop the growing pile. T h a n k s, the sign bellows, and your old things take the shape of a dragon. It weeps. Is this the Cryface, you wonder as you carry the hatchling home.

There is only one bullet point in the list of requirements. It reads: Must not be a snapper. You don’t think you’ve ever owned any snappers, so you readily offer your dragons. The buyer declines; it’s grandmother was a snapper. We must cleanse the land of their curse. Off in the distance, you can hear other buyers chanting. No snappers. No snappers. No snappers.