Twilight Sparkle ✨

All of you with cars - I don't have my license yet, let alone can I afford a car. My dream car is a flying one.

I have root access to Azuras (my VPS). If anyone can tell me where to get the TF2 server application for Linux, I could set it up on there. We'll have an enterprise-class 100 Mb uplink and eight Xeon cores at our disposal.

Now that we have a Steam group, would anyone be interested in organizing MLP Forums gaming nights? Where we pick a time, a game, and then play together? I'd be happy to have a few friendly TF2 sessions with everyone (even though I'm not exactly the greatest at the game ).

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I'm sure that could be accomplished with some Javascript. I'll look into that. However, it would mean adding another set of background images to load - I'm not sure if it can be done without slowing the site down. Grendo, this is looking great so far. Remember to make sure that the background can be extended vertically like the current one and is at least 1920 pixels wide.

Banned 'cause I just came home from school.

Banned 'cause I've had seven and a half hours of school so far today, and still have two left to go.

Banned 'cause I got myself a new avatar.

Start over.

FS, you joined here! It makes me happy to see you again - it's been a while since we last had a chance to talk. I don't think I need any introduction, seeing that we've been friends for almost two years. Considering what that forum has sunk to over the course of the past few months, I really think you'll find MLP Forums a refreshing change - I'm going to take as much care of it as TheWiiU.com, but I feel it's a forum you'll better be able to get into knowing your interests. There are lots of great discussions happening here (mostly about ponies, but you'll find a few about the real world, too), and I know how much you love a good, civilized debate. I hope you have a great time!

The admin/mod position will be given out on an invite-only basis. We will not be accepting applications for the position, and attempting to apply will reduce your chances of getting invited. We watch over our members and their activity constantly to try and get a list together of people whom we think will make good moderators. When the time comes for new moderators, we will contact one of our "candidates" privately, explain the responsibilities of the position, and give them a chance to accept or decline. Choosing moderators in a public way only leads to jealousy, resent, and rage in my experience. So we won't be choosing mods that way.

I've always been a PC kind of guy and have never personally owned any Apple products, but Apple's influence in the technology industry - no, the world - is undeniable. Even though I'm not a fan of Steve Jobs's way of passing everything his company made off as a revolution, he does have my respect for having helped to build Apple into what it is now. He's left behind one hell of a legacy. But with all that said, Apple will continue to thrive even without him. Steve personally trained Tim Cook over the past three years to be his successor, and I have every bit of faith that he'll do his best to make Steve proud.

Banned 'cause we've gotta keep attracting new ponies to MLP Forums.

Hello there, Whooves/Rarity/John! We've already seen each other around the forums, but I wanted to officially welcome you to MLP Forums, seeing as I invited you here personally. It's great to see you here and so energetic about the community. To be perfectly honest, I wasn't expecting much when I casually told you about this place over on IPS's forums. Glad you like how it all turned out, and I hope you stick around for many more discussions to come! Let me know if you ever need anything. By the way, I also think it's awesome to have a fellow IPS fan here - most of our members haven't even heard of the beauty that is IP.Board before.

Honestly, you've got to keep in mind that it's just a little loading graphic. But I think the fact that a topic was started about it and we're discussing having the possibility to change it is a testament to how much personality it adds to MLP Forums. It's not bandwidth I'm concerned about - I've got oodles of it. It's the end-user experience. A simple approach to achieving random loading ponies would require a different pony to be loaded every time the AJAX loader appears, in addition to whatever content it is that's loading. This may result in a "blank" loader as the pony loads, and the content may finish loading before the pony does, meaning you won't see any pony at all. A more sophisticated approach would involve pre-loading all the different ponies using Javascript. But that would mean an extra 100-200 KB to load every couple of days as your browser refreshes its cache (as well as the first page of any guest's visit). Not to mention that it would add some execution time, which probably wouldn't be very noticeable, but will still slow every single pageview down somewhat. Let's also not forget that mobile browsers handle all of IPB's JS slowly enough as it is.