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The Bloop: Jul 5, 2004; by Fluffdaddy

I am enjoying the positive updates!

Some part of me will definitely miss the horrifying reveals as they taper off, though

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Mnoba: Jun 24, 2010

Good job Jeffery, glad to see things are positive in your business just as capitalism intended

# ? Apr 23, 2021 11:36

Randy Travesty: Oct 27, 2014; PHANTOM QUEEN

Thank you for the update and the work you do, Jeffrey, astral and other folks.

I like dark mode on my desktop, looks good!

# ? Apr 23, 2021 11:49

Rarity: Oct 21, 2010; ~*4 LIFE*~

The Bloop posted:

I am enjoying the positive updates!

Some part of me will definitely miss the horrifying reveals as they taper off, though

Is it even really Something Awful if we're not hurtling off a cliff on a raft made of duct tape and prayer? :thunkher:

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Full Metal Jackass: Jan 22, 2001; Rabid bats are welcome in my home

It's weird to see people actually follow-through with things for this site.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 12:11

OhFunny: Jun 26, 2013; EXTREMELY PISSED AT THE DNC

Great work! It's nice to see good things happen with these forums.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 12:23

Col.Schultz: May 14, 2010; Till we come to some beginning within our own power...

This place surviving (and thriving) makes me happy. Thanks! Subscribed to the Patreon.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 12:24

laserghost: Feb 12, 2014; ^{trust me, I'm a cat.}

for the dark mode. no more screen burn tears

# ? Apr 23, 2021 12:28

Armitag3: Mar 15, 2020; Forget it Jake, it's cybertown.

Hot diggity.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 12:31

webmeister: Jan 31, 2007; The answer is, mate, because I want to do you slowly. There has to be a bit of sport in this for all of us. In the psychological battle stakes, we are stripped down and ready to go. I want to see those ashen-faced performances; I want more of them. I want to be encouraged. I want to see you squirm.

oh wow dark mode is amazing - thanks Jeff and LAB!

# ? Apr 23, 2021 12:38

Zodium: Jun 19, 2004

dark mode is relaxing.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 12:50

Into The Mild: Mar 4, 2003

I can finally update my dark mode thread.

gently caress yes. I�m happy...

# ? Apr 23, 2021 12:54

SwissArmyDruid: Feb 14, 2014; by sebmojo

astral posted:

This will involve an easter egg hunt as we migrate all of radium's little cron scripts over, but thankfully Jeffrey already has a good handle on where these live.

There are only three certain things in life: Death, taxes, and radium code loving things.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 12:57

elf help book: Aug 5, 2004; Though the battle might be endless, I will never give up

Looking good, thanks for the dark mode imp zone background as well

# ? Apr 23, 2021 12:57

Beef Of Ages: Jan 11, 2003; Your dumb is leaking.

This is good.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 12:58

Pasco: Oct 2, 2010

Holy poo poo dark mode

# ? Apr 23, 2021 12:58

Seth Pecksniff: May 27, 2004; can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.

Who knew it would only take someone shockingly competent to turn the forums into something people would actually enjoy?

This is like going from Trump to Biden - sure, he's not exciting or flashy or whatever but at least you know he's doing the job and not ~~sitting around in an expensive rear end car and eating $60 cookies and drinking magosteen while screaming into a live youtube channel~~tweeting all day every day

Thanks for the update! I appreciate the transparency

# ? Apr 23, 2021 13:01

Mister Panos: Jan 26, 2011

Hail Jeffery. Hail Satan.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 13:07

Steadiman: Jan 31, 2006; Hey...what kind of party is this? there's no booze and only one hooker!

_{silly sevens}

Dark mode is my new fetish. Every poster just looks so sexy to me right now...hmmmmmmmm yes

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Neophyte: Apr 23, 2006; perennially; Taco Defender

load-bearing no-backup jobs

# ? Apr 23, 2021 13:14

Malachite_Dragon: Mar 31, 2010; Weaving Merry Christmas magic

Holy poo poo, dark mode. Suck it, Stylish, your dark mode sucked anyway. This one is much better, and this one doesn't interfere with SALR. Hail satan

# ? Apr 23, 2021 13:16

Beef Of Ages: Jan 11, 2003; Your dumb is leaking.

Steadiman posted:

Dark mode is my new fetish. Every poster just looks so sexy to me right now...hmmmmmmmm yes

Hello, sailor.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 13:19

Fidelitious: Apr 17, 2018; MY BIRTH CRY WILL BE THE SOUND OF EVERY WALLET ON THIS PLANET OPENING IN UNISON.

I dunno, these forum finances look a little too reasonable. Are you sure you're buying enough cookies?

# ? Apr 23, 2021 13:28

Steadiman: Jan 31, 2006; Hey...what kind of party is this? there's no booze and only one hooker!

_{silly sevens}

Mackieman posted:

Hello, sailor.

Oh you look sooooo good to me right now

# ? Apr 23, 2021 13:28

Issaries: Sep 15, 2008; "Negotiations were going well. They were very impressed by my hat." -Issaries the Concilliator"

Hello darkness, my old friend...

Looking fine for a 20ish year old forums.

edit: Oh no. My gang tag looks rubbish in dark mode.
Who could have foreseen these advances in forum technology?

# ? Apr 23, 2021 13:40

Wiggy Marie: Jan 16, 2006; Meep!

Thanks for all of this awesome work and a legit Patreon, finally.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 13:50

denereal visease: Nov 27, 2002; "Research your own experience. Absorb what is useful, reject what is useless, add what is essentially your own."

Jeffrey of YOSPOS posted:

Oh I almost forgot - one last thing. Not all the changes we've been working on have been under the hood. After so much time, I am super excited to announce DARK MODE. LITERALLY A BIRD and I have been working like crazy on this and we hope you enjoy it! Being such a long-awaited feature, we didn't want to half-rear end or disappoint - thought and effort were put into every page, and we hope it shows. You can turn it on here in your forum options. Let us know what you think and see known issues, here in this feedback thread: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3965797

thanks for dork mode!

# ? Apr 23, 2021 13:50

Seth Pecksniff: May 27, 2004; can't believe shrek is fucking dead. rip to a real one.

I just turned on dark mode and whoa ho ho this is an entirely new experience! It's like I'm on a brand new website!!

# ? Apr 23, 2021 13:53

UFOTacoMan: Sep 22, 2005; Thanks easter bunny!
bok bok!

dark mode is good thank you

# ? Apr 23, 2021 13:57

Saalkin: Jun 29, 2008

I do believe the forums deserve statehood.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 13:57

tithin: Nov 14, 2003; [Grandmaster Tactician]

Just wanted to give props to whoever did the dark mode, it's really good and it puts the dark mode addons I've used in the past to shame

# ? Apr 23, 2021 13:57

GreenBuckanneer: Sep 15, 2007

You have offsite backups, right? Not just a local one? "3-2-1 rule"

# ? Apr 23, 2021 14:06

big nipples big life: May 12, 2014

delete the politics forums.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 14:06

Kitchner: Nov 9, 2012; IT CAN'T BE BARGAINED WITH.
IT CAN'T BE REASONED WITH.
IT DOESN'T FEEL PITY, OR REMORSE, OR FEAR.
AND IT ABSOLUTELY WILL NOT STOP, EVER, UNTIL YOU ADMIT YOU'RE WRONG ABOUT WARHAMMER; Clapping Larry

I'm so glad the forums are under competent ownership now and actually interested in growing and maintaining the community for the sake of the community rather than using it as a cash cow.

I often criticise hollywood movies because the good guys always win, but I'm glad to see it happen in real life for once.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 14:08

Mozi: Apr 4, 2004; Forms change so fast
Time is moving past
Memory is smoke
Gonna get wider when I die; Nap Ghost

i am enjoying dark mode!

# ? Apr 23, 2021 14:10

Ciaphas: Nov 20, 2005; > BEWARE, COWARD

hot drat, dark mode rules :cheers:

# ? Apr 23, 2021 14:11

Volmarias: Dec 31, 2002; EMAIL... THE INTERNET... SEARCH ENGINES...

Rarity posted:

Is it even really Something Awful if we're not hurtling off a cliff on a raft made of duct tape and prayer?

Don't forget the load bea-

Neophyte posted:

load-bearing no-backup jobs

gently caress.

Awesome to see this progress. Perhaps one day my horrible dream of the forums having a shitposting API for the mobile clients instead of screen scraping will happen, saving the forums upwards of tens of dollars!

# ? Apr 23, 2021 14:16

mom and dad fight a lot: Sep 21, 2006; If you count them all, this sentence has exactly seventy-two characters.

Kitchner posted:

I'm so glad the forums are under competent ownership now and actually interested in growing and maintaining the community for the sake of the community rather than using it as a cash cow

I remember a post about "oh please god buy from the store revenue is down 90% pleaaaaaaase". It blows my mind how misleading that was.

# ? Apr 23, 2021 14:24

Nooner: Mar 26, 2011; AN A+ OPSTER (:

i like the changes but i have one issue to report, it seems there has been a mistake and someone forgot to make me a mod, can one of the admins look into that please? TIA

# ? Apr 23, 2021 14:25

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disaster pastor: May 1, 2007

The official dark mode is so much better than our previous options. In summary,

Nessus posted:

Dark mode has changed my life. I will now uphold Bird Thought with Jeffreyist characteristics. Thanks for your work!

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