Li'l story. Every year for April Fools Day, Reddit does something jackassed. Reddit Mold. "Everyone's an Admin." "Team Periwinkle" or whatever the fuck that was. And every year, those of us in /r/defaultmods and other cloistered centers of power say "why don't you use that day to, you know, beta-test new site functionality? Like, I dunno, close the defaults for a day or hide karma or something. You know, so you could learn a little without truly pissing people off." And every year, they continue to do some jackassed thing like fucking time travel and shit. Know how you did "Illuminated" and it's within an inch or two of actually being a damn cool theme? Next April Fool's, give me like six pages of preferences. Take notes on usage. Let us see what works and what doesn't. I beta test for Eventide. I do this because I fell in love with their hardware nearly 20 years ago. And they've got some seriously sophisticated shit - they were doing physical modeling for their reverbs back in '94. All of their algorithms have preferences. Some of their algorithm preferences have "advanced" preferences. And some of their "advanced" preferences have "tedium" preferences. That is, in fact, the word they use. And while most people will never dive into the "tedium" of Swept Combs, if you decide to do so you can truly conjure magic. Don't fear preferences. Just arrange them such that they help, rather than hinder.
|"Team Periwinkle" or whatever the fuck that was. The joke was that Reddit bought Team Fortress 2, and implemented the game on Reddit.
Nope, but it beats the hell out of zero days. Also, "Illuminated" is a style you can run right now. Go check it out. We whinged and mk let us keep it. Then we whinged some more and insomniasexx polished it to the point where it's nearly usable. I still switch to it sometimes.