Clients from hell, part 2.

Client: Here are the photos we'd like you to use for this page spread.
Me: Alright, I'll select the best-looking ones from what you've given me.
Client: Why are you using these photos?? Remove them immediately!

Bridgerton S3's impending release is the only thing that gives me strength these days to finish this damn site.

(I'm going to assume that this is for Jcink, so...)

Using CSS-only tabs is certainly possible with careful usage of hiding and displaying elements using Jcink's Category ID and Forum ID variables. This is because you must make a separate category style to wrap the forum rows you want to be tabbed, and to prevent it from being repeated (remember, CSS tabs require unique IDs) you'll need to add the <!-- |cat_id| --> variable into the input and label IDs to make it tab properly.

All in all, I definitely would say using JS is the much more elegant (and probably preferred) solution but I'm monke brain over Javascript/JQuery and I can only say that confidently in theory, not so much in practice.

Client: Here's our brand, it has red in it.
Me: Awesome, let me design stuff with your red colour!
[1 week later] Client: Why is there so much red?! I hate it!

Apr 10, 2024 23:39:02 GMT Yevod said:

I have a question regarding the plot! Will this be able to support slice-of-life threads or is this going to be more serious in tone?

You can definitely have slice-of-life plots, and you're free to opt out of participating in site plots (that would probably be more serious in tone). There may be events where it can affect the environment of the city (e.g. political upheaval, etc.) but there are also other locations you can roleplay that's not confined to Elysium City. Hope that answers your question!

Next up are Physique skills:

Apr 9, 2024 18:31:39 GMT Jenesis said:

I loved "Meet the Skills" in DE and I'm loving it here.

Be interesting to see how you translate some of the skills (like Authority and Esprit de Corps) to a setting where all of the OCs aren't expected to be cops.

Authority is mostly unchanged, just tweaked so that it's relevant to your OC's background and narrative context. In another way, Authority also evaluates how assertive you are and how to control others. Esprit de Corps reflects your OC's sense of belonging to a social group or clique they're part of, so it can be anything like the book club you're part of to the company you're working for, if that makes sense!

Psyche skills are up next!

Early update, whoops. But had to share this write-up.

Apr 6, 2024 6:36:56 GMT wdym we're 5 months in 2024 said:

Idt that’s your problem anymore tbh 😂 you can’t micromanage people’s reactions. Who has time to get salty over that? And why are people making it a problem for sites to fix? Don’t let such members make you think you have to fix every annoyance they wake up to for them.

I know that's how the cookie (and should) crumble, you're absolutely right. Sadly, I'm a people-pleaser and I can somewhat sympathize because I have one or two claims that I really can't negotiate for a particular character I play in almost every site I've been on.

Not that telling problematic people to take a hike isn't wrong, I just wanna think about solutions to things and wonder how it would work (in practice). If it does, that's awesome and if it doesn't, no skin off my back.

so anyways I was thinking about a lottery system for pre-launch reserves but that seems a bit too much for just claims but ngl the brainstorming part of making it work was fun, i guess. dunno if I'll ever trial it out when it comes to my own site launch in the near future but just something fun for the brain to crunch on.

Apr 5, 2024 9:45:01 GMT Phantasm said:

Though I suppose the confession is really that I've just gotten rather biased against 'casual' lax activity sites, probably because of bad eggs where people take canons/limited slots/plot important roles and then proceed to not post for six months, eight months, etc, and not get so much as slap on the wrist because there are no actual enforceable rules on activity and no one wants to be mean - but even if there were a hard 'one post in two months,' that situation would not exist. (Is one post in two months really that extreme?)

I agree with your post, mostly this snipped section and it made me think about my past experiences staffing and my members' reactions towards canons. In my last attempt, I tried trivializing canon positions and making a lot of canon spots would mitigate the problem (because if there's a lot of canons, they're not really special, are they?) but it still didn't stop the rat race of people fighting over positions. I'm starting to lean on the idea of closing canon positions for the first month or so when my site opens, to get people situated to the plot, and if they really like the site, they'll stick around long enough to consider taking a canon.

Now if someone can also tell me the secret on how to solve the "face claim reserves" issue because I've seen too many pre-launches where folks get salty they were asleep when reserves opened or something and their favourite claim got snatched, bc timezones. 

I discovered what 'guideverse' is today and I'm shocked I didn't know about this sooner