Crowdfunding the creation of the next version of LFGSS

This third-party authentication and avatar stuff. Are you planning on bringing it in-house at all?

We're planning on seeing how Mozilla Persona works in practise, how you guys like it.

We love the concept of not owning your identity. It's way more secure this way, and it will work great with third party clients for Microcosm (i.e. a native Android app).

But... whether we keep it depends on feedback.

As for Gravatars/Avatars. We're starting with Gravatar because it works well. I'm very open on this though, we're going to have file-uploading so it will be easy to have avatars that we host. Mostly I will be looking at whether Gravatar gets a bad reaction by users, and if that doesn't happen then whether Gravatar infrstructure is slower than ours.

But yeah, looks clean, posts quickly, works.

Nice.

Tootles!

Many thanks.

+1
Seems like there is lots of white space around those sub-forum titles on the main page (General chit chat etc.)... also the footer is a bit sudden and could do with something more definite like you have on the forum now.

Not sure if you are at that design stage yet but hope that helps.
Also I keep being called a douchenozzle from the pop up box which is my favourite feature.

We are at the design stage, the design comes from 6pt on here. And it is a very nice design... but I couldn't say we've perfectly built his vision, and nor that he's seen his vision in action.

Usage is the best feedback tool. We'll make it better, but the intent of a clear and accessible (readable) design is very much demonstrated already.

style tags are fun

https://sandbox.microcosm.app/conversations/5/

Yeah, that won't be possible in future as we'll be scrubbing the input.

But if you're having fun, you will want to look at Bootstrap 3 (Work In Progress) as that is what we're using.