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The development theme is being used once again, this time to test and build a new menu on the sidebar that's meant list and introduce various aspects of the region! Currently, there are two menu options: Discord Chat and NSFW Community.

Discord Chat is a landing page that explains the purpose of the chat and lists the administrative rules. It's meant to replace the direct links on the RMB and website to ensure that people actually see the rules before joining the chat. It also means that we could do away with the #rules channel on the Discord server, under the principle that besides #announcements, Discord channels should be for conversation rather than providing information. NSFW Community is visible to Citizens only, and provides the requirements for joining the NSFW server. This page is meant to let people know that this thing exists and to do away with the #nsfw_entry channel on Discord. Eventually, I plan to have other menu options for Minecraft, Werewolf, RPing, Wintreath NS, and a page for other forum games.

I'm also using these pages to experiment with other ideas. For example, I've changed the fonts on these pages...the headers use Trebuchet, while the content uses Sans Source Pro. I may eventually carry out these fonts to other portions of the forums in the future.

To see these changes in action, you need to switch to the development theme. To do so:

1) In your menu (the one at the top right with your username), select Old User CP.

2) Under Modify Profile, select Look and Layout.

3) Beside Current Theme, hit the change link.

4) Scroll down to winter-dev and hit the [Use this theme] link!

Of course, I appreciate any thoughts and feedback while I develop this out.

On the Discord page under Bug Abuse, there's a typo where it should say "bug" instead of "big".

Other than that, it looks good to me. And I like the NSFW page's icon.

Looks good to me. What do you think of adding the "Region Page" link there as well?

Edit: oh, they aren't direct links

Ah, Trebuchet makes it feel like my Word documents from middle school (it used to be my favorite font back in the day lol) or a default Google Docs header. It is a nice font though (not necessarily sure about on forums however), but such a big change would take some time to be used to.

Right now the menu seems to overemphasize specific elements of the community, but having more of them would balance things out I think.

One concern is that if the goal is to make the NSFW community more accessible and prominent, then shouldn't that be on Discord, since that's where the community primarily resides (I think, since I've never taken part)?

Also, I think maybe a more descriptive name than "menu" might be good, since there are other menus on the forums too. Not sure exactly what though, but it seems like you're making menu of region things?

Looks good to me. What do you think of adding the "Region Page" link there as well?

Edit: oh, they aren't direct links

In this particular case, I think the pages are better served giving people information before they link to things, so they can give out rules or serve as guides. There'll eventually be a page for NS too, with a link to the region page. Of course, there's still the direct link under the Wintreath menu.

On the Discord page under Bug Abuse, there's a typo where it should say "bug" instead of "big".

Other than that, it looks good to me. And I like the NSFW page's icon.

Fixed! And yeah, it took quite awhile to find an appropriate icon...Font Awesome apparently doesn't do NSFW.

Ah, Trebuchet makes it feel like my Word documents from middle school (it used to be my favorite font back in the day lol) or a default Google Docs header. It is a nice font though (not necessarily sure about on forums however), but such a big change would take some time to be used to.

Right now the menu seems to overemphasize specific elements of the community, but having more of them would balance things out I think.

One concern is that if the goal is to make the NSFW community more accessible and prominent, then shouldn't that be on Discord, since that's where the community primarily resides (I think, since I've never taken part)?

Also, I think maybe a more descriptive name than "menu" might be good, since there are other menus on the forums too. Not sure exactly what though, but it seems like you're making menu of region things?

Trebuchet was my favourite font too in high school and college. All my websites used it until Wintreath. I'm only using Trebuchet for website headers though, so I'm not sure how much of it you would see on the forums if it extended to that. You'd be more likely to see Sans Source Pro.

There will indeed be other menu options, lol, this is just what I've had time to write out so far with the goal of eliminating the channels that give out this information on Discord. At the very least there will be links for Werewolf, RP, Minecraft, NationStates, regional governance, and other forum games besides Werewolf.

It actually doesn't make it more accessible or prominent, since that information already exists in a Citizen-only channel on Discord (only Citizens see that particular menu option). It's true that it primarily resides on Discord, but depending on the future there could be website portions for it as well. I've had ideas, but there hasn't been enough activity to justify spending time on them.

Hmm..."Menu of Region Things"?

If you're planning on adding more links, how about a "Regional Guidepost"?

If you're planning on adding more links, how about a "Regional Guidepost"?

I think this could be a very good idea to tie into @Hapi 's desire for increased integrational activities and resources.

It actually doesn't make it more accessible or prominent, since that information already exists in a Citizen-only channel on Discord (only Citizens see that particular menu option). It's true that it primarily resides on Discord, but depending on the future there could be website portions for it as well. I've had ideas, but there hasn't been enough activity to justify spending time on them.

Its only presence is on #nsfw-entry, but if that's phased out then its only presence would be on the forums, is what I'm saying.

If you're planning on adding more links, how about a "Regional Guidepost"?

I like this name.

New section title, two new links (Donate and Minecraft), the old donate box on the sidebar has been removed, and the Wintreath Guidepost is now on top of the sidebar.

Also playing around with font changes in the Minecraft page.

Every time I load the index page of the forums I get a "Flash player blocked" pop up, but when I run it I don't notice anything different. Any ideas what's going on there?

Otherwise the new box looks good! Now for someone to put together a guide post to be linked in the Guidepost!

Every time I load the index page of the forums I get a "Flash player blocked" pop up, but when I run it I don't notice anything different. Any ideas what's going on there?

Otherwise the new box looks good! Now for someone to put together a guide post to be linked in the Guidepost!

@monkey

If I win the election for Thane of Integration, I would love to put together a guide!!

You win by default I don't exist anymore

Just one more small thing I noticed. Livelihood is misspelled in the Donate section.