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mk  ·  3690 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Humanizing Hubski

I'm very happy to hear D. There's been an ongoing debate on the Hubski team about it. Score 1 point for b_b and mk.

I am definitely of the opinion that not all thresholds should be lowered, for entry or even enjoyment of the site.

Re: F, Dark got a bit darker today.





Meriadoc  ·  3690 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ha! I'm not insane! It is darker!

mk  ·  3690 days ago  ·  link  ·  

One doesn't exclude the other.

Meriadoc  ·  3690 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My head says you're right, but the voices say you're wrong.

kleinbl00  ·  3690 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I actually noticed it once you pointed it out. We haven't even made it to "wet asphalt" though. We're still somewhere between "Arizona freeway" and "aged road tar."

mk  ·  3690 days ago  ·  link  ·  

My god Arizona freeways are so nice and smooth. You should see our roads right now. Driving is a video game and the life bar is your alignment.

kleinbl00  ·  3690 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I live in LA, holmes. We got cracks in the sidewalk bigger than 80mm longboard wheels. And that doesn't include the earthquake damage or tree root shit. I oughtta go snap a picture of what the sidewalks look like on the route they took the Endeavor on; half the reason they chopped down the trees is so that they could put in sidewalks with a less-than-2-foot height variation...

mk  ·  3690 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This is what I'm dealing with:

It's a special kind of sadness when you hit one at 40+ mph and hear a solid CHUNK.

elizabeth  ·  3690 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Reminds me of home. The roads in Quebec are the worst i've seen in North America so far.

kleinbl00  ·  3690 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Ahhh, the freeze-thaw cycle.

Standby; maybe I'll grab you a shot the next time I get on the longboard.

b_b  ·  3689 days ago  ·  link  ·  

MI is a wonderfully ironic state: A place that only survives on car manufacturing, but that won't under any circumstances submit to a gas tax high enough to maintain places to drives our precious autos. We have one of the worst ratios of maintenance dollars:miles of road of any state; throw in the freeze/thaw thing on top of that and spring is a shitty time to be a tire, axle or tie rod 'round here.

kleinbl00  ·  3689 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I've heard it said that California spends more on BMWs than Germany does. Nonetheless, our roads aren't dissimilar.

b_b  ·  3689 days ago  ·  link  ·  

    I've heard it said that California spends more on BMWs than Germany does.

I wouldn't doubt it. It's not just the number, but the level. In MI, a 6 Series will turn heads. In L.A. it's just another obstacle in the road.

kleinbl00  ·  3690 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I can tell, actually.

Curious - when you're building these, what choices do you have as far as ornamentation? It looks like you have:

- BG color

- Font

- Font color

- You color

- Following color

- Followed color

How hard would it be for me to have a color picker and a dropdown for font? 'cuz then I'd have "custom" and I might just like that better.

mk  ·  3690 days ago  ·  link  ·  

It's mostly the main font and the background, but also the color of some links, textfields, borders, and buttons. Currently each style has its own style sheet. However, it would be worthwhile to have a master stylesheet of the CSS that doesn't change, and individual stylesheets for the custom aspects. If we did that, it would be one big step in the direction of something you are talking about.

insomniasexx is working on a CSS project, which will be done soon. After that, I think we should implement that kind of CSS organization. If we had a handful of customizable aspects, it wouldn't be too difficult to allow for individual customization which would be pretty lightweight.

insomniasexx  ·  3690 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Yeah after I finish this brilliance I think I'm going to redo it and clean it up quite a bit. Maybe even add some comments (SAY WHAAA?!)

This will be especially helpful for setting master fonts, deciding which elements are for look and feel and which are necessary for layout, etc. I'm currently about to start building a new, fully responsive website for my company and so I am finally taking the time to implement perfect, documented, and concise CSS that someone will be able to understand in the future. I hope I can bring all the things I learn during this project to help Hubski's css.

The coolest trick I just learned about is rems. Basically you set html to a font size of 62.5%. Then you define each element as 14px (for ie) and then 1.4rem after it for modern browsers. When you want to up the fonts a bit for mobile, all you have to do is change the single HTML % and the entire font base will increase or decrease! Nifty huh?!

kleinbl00  ·  3690 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Depends. Will that make it easier or harder for me to render the whole site in papyrus?

insomniasexx  ·  3690 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well, technically the browser is the one doing the rendering so it'll be about the same. :P

kleinbl00  ·  3690 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Liar. I just changed all my fonts to papyrus and nothing happened.

Gonna be fuckin' hilarious when I forget about this and suddenly everything looks like a goddamn Aveda salon.

insomniasexx  ·  3690 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Alright. I did it. Proof.

How to:

1. Install stylebot extension

2. Click the extension icon and then click "styles" on the left hand side.

3. Click "add new style"

4. Type "hubski.com" in the top box (no quotes)

5. Type in the next box.

       body {
       font-family: "Papyrus";
       }
6. Click save.

7. Refresh Hubski.

kleinbl00  ·  3690 days ago  ·  link  ·  

kleinbl00  ·  3690 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Hook it up, yo.