NYSpeed's New Skins

crap… I mean add

Just giving you guys a heads up. Strange how you look at it from the outside now, and the more things change, the more they stay the same.

From your view - While I was at the helm, I “listened” more? I don’t think you realized the amount of flak for NOT upgrading the site, NOT giving better / different skins, NOT making this site stand out and differ from others, NOT being actively participating every day, NOT making things clearer and better for vendors, and NOT “caring” enough. I took a step back, looked at things, talked it over a bit, and now see all these things being addressed. Now that they are - you are bitching?

Seriously, you guys are fucking brutal about everything. People like stuff, people hate stuff. You have to draw a line at what you do. You’re always going to piss people off, you’re always going to never make everyone happy. YOU as members have to see that.

As an admin here, you can’t ever win. I would say I feel sorry for Josh Bing & Mike, but I can’t, because I’ve been there way too many times.

You pour your heart into something, people don’t give a shit and just care about “me me me”. Then the bandwagon comes along. Fucking bullshit.

Sorry, been trying to love the new skin but it’s like trying to love a sharp stick in the eye. Could you possibly add a minimalist / simple / clean / basic one to the choices? Something like, say, what was there before? :smiley:

my only gripe is the asphalt. It looks like that cheap graffitti paint you put on the floor of a garage. Other than that I LOVE IT keep up the good work guys. All good things. People dont like change. I say tough shit.

there seems to be an influx in the amount of females on the board, perhaps the new skin the cause?

lol

Since it didn’t look like the suggestions were going to be acted on I decided to make some changes to the default skin myself.

Prerequisites: Firefox and AdBlockPlus

Add the following blocks:
http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/images/styles/blacksmart/misc/*
http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/OnyxSkin/images/*
http://www.nyspeed.com/forums/OnyxSkin/images/blacktop.gif

That gets rid of the giant NYSpeed logo, the blacktop over the random header image and the blacktop background. AdBlock Plus also takes care of the embedded ads. Now it looks really good. :tup:

It looks like this now:

LOL I will actually be changing the background in the next day or so… We are also going to be changing the header in the very near future. It takes more than a day to rebuild Rome.

Nice workaround though.

JayS :tup: good work

Hopefully this will attract some people from other cities.

hmm, adblock isn’t working for me

^ Make sure you’re refreshing the page.

yeah, I’m not a moran

Restart the browser

lol

do you seriously think that I didn’t think to try that?

it didn’t like the links the JayS gave me, so I added them in myself

Looking better already :tup:

:hay: Me and Josh busted this out tonight so that there was something better.

Hope you like :slight_smile:

That would be “Josh and I” Grammar n00b.

And again, it’s not done. We know there are bugs and we’re working on fixing them.

:fu:

When someone posts a really large pic, it makes all of the post windows really big like an older version of the board. Can you fix that?