The warm tones of FFF.NET 2.0

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Originally posted by out2theblack:
Call me a traditionalist , but I like the old , cold BLACK...

I always felt that the colder colors of FFF.net were a good contrast for the cast/series photos from Firefly...

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I was inspired to make the change after re-watching the extras on the Firefly DVDs. There's a segment in there about the warm tones of Serenity and how they go from the warmness of the engine room to the coolness of the cockpit as one moves from one end of Serenity to the other.

While the blue has served the site well, I always felt the color was more Alliance than Serenity.

In terms of the dark background, I'll likely keep it that way. It's a personal preference since I like dark sites (also known nowadays as green sites).

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My first thought on opening this thread: No! Don't change the colors! Then I saw it. mmmm. nice.

I do like the blue, but it's soothing to be in the nice warm firefly colors.

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I get it. I like it.

Thanks for all your hard work, Haken.

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Regarding the colour, I would go more brownish. Seems a little too red to me.


But, I have a suggestion about the new site. This site has run into performance problems before, mainly involving the DB. So, what I would suggest is to have two DBs. One being for active discussions defined as the top 100 threads in its category. The other DB is for the archive. So, once nightly, all the oldest threads get moved into the archive where no new posts are allowed.

The drawback is that there will be a few seconds of downtime nightly. The benefit is that the DB the site is running on (for active discussions) stays extremely small and as such, *much* faster. Thus, much more cycles available for actually running the site. There is also the side benefit that long old threads don't get brought up again. So, there will be some bandwidth savings as well. Etc.

At any rate, I think that if this site is still around in 10 years, the added performance would *far* out weigh the added development time.

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Pretty!!

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Wow! It's like comin in from out in the black to a warm, cozy galley.

Mmmm... wife soup!





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beta.fireflyfans.net ought to be using the picture of the more highly evolved 2.0 Serenity. For a redesigned site, that would be better than the earliest, 1.0 version, now at the top of the page. To illustrate the difference, a picture...


This is what I mean:


Versus this:


I like this one with Serenity on the ground, with an outdoor bar on the right and freight on the left.
http://janjygiggins.deviantart.com/art/Serenity-Final-135787020


The Joss Whedon script for "Serenity", where Wash lives, is
Serenity-190pages.pdf at www.mediafire.com/two

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Originally posted by SigmaNunki:
Regarding the colour, I would go more brownish. Seems a little too red to me.

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I agree on this. I do like the warmth.

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So, once nightly, all the oldest threads get moved into the archive where no new posts are allowed.

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That would shut discussion down faster than full burn...

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Originally posted by RahlMaclaren:
I vote blue.

Blue is more calming, and I need calm if I'm going to be posting where possibly thousands of people are going to see it.

Also, I see myself hanging out more on the bridge than in the engine room.

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I agree on all points. No other forum looks like this one, she's a beauty. Harden security and she'll run for years to come.

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