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What The Hell Happened To The GamingOnLinux Design?

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Update: It's now set to the white theme for default, if you want the dark theme then you need to login and change it - so it's not such a shock to regular visitors who don't login.

Welcome to the new and improved GamingOnLinux.com!

What the hell happened? I hear you cry! Fear not the old white design is still available! If you wish to use the old white design simply login, go to your UserCP and change the design dropdown and save.

New Stuff
The designer switcher of course.

Avatars can be uploaded in png and gif form now, no more hard-coded jpg's when it saves the upload. Hope that helps, this was as a result of white-bg avatars looking terrible on the new design heh.

You can now "like" comments. Of course only logged in users can Like a comment.

You can not "dislike" a comment or downvote it and that will never, ever be implemented as I hate downvote systems with a passion since they serve to annoy and cause friction. Any site that uses a downvote system for comments just invites arguments and trolls.

Why? When the newer white design came out there was a lot of people asking for a dark colour scheme, so I am happy to provide! I didn't want to force people into it though, so that's why I did a best of both worlds approach and made a design switcher for logged in users!

If there are other features you would like to see on GOL then let us know in the comments.

Big thank you to Half-Shot for sorting the javascript out for the Like system.

I will also be rolling out some more fun changes in the future, like a simple RPG system based around comments and article submissions. Where you can earn "gold" to buy funny things...and maybe even battle it out with other users (not real-time battles though, silly browser text battles).

Also if you didn't know already I run a G+ Linux Gaming community, in that community anyone can post their own links and it is open to all, be sure to join it and get sharing. It already has a couple hundred members!

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I am the owner of GamingOnLinux. After discovering Linux back in the days of Mandrake in 2003, I constantly came back to check on the progress of Linux until Ubuntu appeared on the scene and it helped me to really love it. You can reach me easily by emailing GamingOnLinux directly. Find me on Mastodon.
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Liam Dawe Apr 15, 2014
Twitter box is now sorted for both themes.

Yeah I am also swaying towards removing the green.
Let there be light Apr 15, 2014
personally I like the previous theme better... Maybe this needs more work? Not sure what but there is something i dont quite like much in the new theme.

Anyways good job there on reporting on new Linux releases.
HadBabits Apr 15, 2014
Already looks better :) Maybe rounded edges on the comment boxes? For some reason they really stick out in the dark theme in a really unpleasant way.
Liam Dawe Apr 15, 2014
FYI guys, it's now reverted to being white first, dark as an option in your UserCP.
GoCorinthians Apr 17, 2014
White one rocks...tough a would think a grey-black would be more fit my taste. lol
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