Having the option to preserve the old profile coding would be grand, and also vital for archving our creative legacy as a community. If the new profiles are accessible and responsive by default while being malleable enough, I'd be more than satisfied.

Including the community in the process is great, so there's not one person trying to juggle the requirements while judging someone's work. The rules for it are all over the place and getting rejected for odd reasons is quite the lost opportunity to maybe even bring back past creative community members. After all, this is the heart of the site as lovely as the mechanical frame may be.

As an intuition for the spotlight queue, ANY acceptance should include the opportunity for minor revisions. Assign three volunteers to a pet, let them vote on it, ask for a minor/major revision, and post it. If anyone who adds someone to the queue participates in the same number of reviews, it should go round, but I'm just spitballing here. We have so many passionate pet profile designers on here who could get some kind of currency or rank out of it. This does need some form of code of conduct to remain good-faith, kind and encouraging, so it's definitely a big social challenge.

Hello, I have come to be negative for a second:

There are two things on this site that I've absolutely given up on - this is one of them, the other is the potion lottery. It's because of the lack of staffing but the sheer demand for it to be staffed constantly while being queue heavy. In the olden years, back when I did a stint as a minimod, the notion would have been to simply open moderator applications but I haven't seen that in literal years.

End negativity. Begin constructive criticism.

I get that's because it's either a paid position in a sense, I guess, since it's a red admin icon. Those are normally paid. Maybe not make it a paid position so we can have a better rotation, for one? Have a rotating pool of volunteers who will change out every 3, 6 or 12 months so there isn't room for saying someone's playing favorites.

I'd also say make the queue the oldest to the newest too, per each individual volunteer if that became a thing so everyone would have a different section of the pool to work on.

Another would be communication: keep the pool limited, add in a user notification that the pool is full and no new pets can be added in at that time to keep it from getting super backlogged, maybe an admin to oversee the selection of pets for the day/week/month so it's not overlapping chatter?

End ideas.

Idk, I feel like I'm alone in an empty room and it's echoing.

i'm sure that legacy profile emulation is a WIP but jsyk there appears to be an issue with how margins are calculated, though i can't figure out where the difference is just by eyeballing things at the moment. if you compare vivisect's profile on the original & kumos versions you can see it slightly shifts some of the graphics around, and completely breaks the spacing on the playlist widget:

https://subeta.net/petinfo.php?petid=5999711 https://kumos.subeta.net/pet/Frenchi:Vivisect

as for things i'd like to see on the new profiles... well it's a bit hard to say. as you can see i'm kind of more in the mood these days to delete everything and just make it myself so i have full control. the main issue with the way things currently work is that profile elements are sometimes inside of other elements, and sometimes you actually want that chunk to be OUTSIDE of that other chunk, or you want it to be INSIDE a different chunk, or you want THESE ones grouped together but not THOSE ones, and so on. so at a certain point it's easier to just manually make them myself.

i guess that means an ideal pet profile system would be a bit like the wysiwyg block system of current user profiles but with the ability to nest (or un-nest) blocks inside each other in any configuration we like, as well as the ability to create new blocks that we can put our own custom content inside. then we can use CSS to target the blocks of our choosing and style each one how we like (or target all of them at once for certain universal styles we might want to apply). maybe? idk how good of an idea that is let alone if it's even possible. again i might still end up resorting to my "get this all out of here, i'm doing it myself" ways.

sections/blocks/whatever that should be included (as separate units but that can be grouped together as mentioned above):

• pet image
• pet name
• gender / color / species (i'm actually someone who likes the gender symbols as opposed to words, but i think the symbols should maybe be unicode or something so they're easier to customize) (also i'm not married to these all being in one section but idk shrug)
• owner
• creation date
• adoption date (i guess? does anyone actually use this?)
• minion
• stats
• job
• books read
• food eaten
• treasure
• friends
• spotlight
• optional blank sections for custom content (stories, fanart, page deco, other info)

unlike the way things work now, i don't think the sections should have little header labels, at least not by default. i think that's the first thing most people hide when customizing a profile. (i know i do.)

uh. idk if that all makes sense or if i forgot anything. i'm tired. it's finals week.

I want to add on to Frenchi's post above. Legacy status. I know its a niche thing now, and might vanish come the end of Legacy Site but a block for that would be nice too.

I just don't want the current legacy bios to become obsolete and un-editable (or wiped when moved over)! That is my only ask, really. A couple of my pets have custom bio templates/codes, and not only am I unsure if the person who made them's even active anymore, I also am not great with coding so I don't think I could fix them if they got messed up!

Under no circumstances do I want that to happen! The reason I'm so nervous is because so many people like you have invested time and energy into creating these pets and their profiles, and I want to make sure that we can keep that (and make it possible to make small changes!)