Twilight Sparkle ✨

That plushie looks great, Katrilli! I would say that the eyes are a bit too big, but then again, when AJ's only two inches in size and you're hand-sewing the whole thing, criticism becomes that much harder to give (especially considering I hardly know anything about sewing myself).

That can be achieved through some Javascript or PHP (as is done with that particular image) - IP.Board's flexibility has nothing to do with it. However, it won't happen for one main reason: The loading GIF itself has to be loaded. Using just one pony for it allows your browser to cache the image after loading it just once. If we were to use a different image every time, that means it would have to be re-downloaded every time. In other words, you'd be adding an unnecessary 7-10 KB to load every single time you hover over a username, preview a topic, check your PM's, etc.

I'm really happy to hear you guys like having Rainbow Dash as our loading pony. The alternative was a boring green thing with three flashing squares in it - switch to the default IP.Board theme to see it. It may change at some point. We haven't really decided yet. Thank you so much! I made the theme, but I don't consider myself a designer by any stretch of the imagination, so it's great to hear that you love the work we put into it. I was originally planning to someday hire a professional designer to make us a better theme, but now that just seems like a waste of money seeing as everyone loves my theme so much. I've never heard of a forum engine that doesn't support multiple skins. Try to "Change Theme" button at the bottom-left corner of every page. Maybe. I like the sound of that. That's going to get unnecessarily complicated to program into the board for such a trivial detail. It's not gonna happen. The most it might come to is Rainbow Dash occasionally getting swapped out for somepony else.

^ This. ^ But I honestly don't think it's worth having a dedicated debate section - a "Debate" prefix in the Everfree Forest should suffice. Get a good debate going, and ask me or Kurt to give it the prefix. We're talking about debates that have nothing to do with ponies. No, this is a feedback thread meant to provide direct feedback to me and Kurtiss. If you wish to discuss something else (e.g.: have a debate), please start a new thread. You hit the nail on the head, Zoop. Every dead forum I've seen has always had waaaaaaaaaaaaay too many sections for its own good. A dedicated debate forum would, honestly, probably not be worth it. The last time I saw a debate section on a forum, it was on life support. I'm especially hesitant about adding new sections that have nothing to do with ponies. We're an MLP fan forum, not a political community. As I said above, the Everfree Forest with a "Debate" prefix should cover your debating needs adequately. What you're describing with colourful language sounds more like a flame war than a debate. If too much colourful language starts flying around, restrictions on it may be introduced, posts will be edited, and people will be banished to the moon. Don't worry about that. Also, forums and posts are little more than plaintext stored in the site's database. 20,000 posts are about 10-15 MB, so filesize should be the least of your concerns. What may go down with time is the attachment limits, but that's besides the point. Yes, if you see anyone causing trouble, do not reply to their posts. Submit a report and get on with your life, or you may just receive a warning yourself. Solution: have your debates in the Everfree Forest and prefix them with a "Debate" tag. I think that's a happy medium for all of us.

That may be, but really, 5 posts is honestly nothing. Start your intro thread, take part in a few pony discussions, then upload your avatar and enjoy being a full member. ^ This is exactly what I explained a few posts back. ^ Admittedly, the avatars really don't take up much space at all, but if we have 1000 members of which 200 uploaded an avatar and have made 0 posts, let's do some math: 200 members * 50 KB avatars (on average) = 10 MB of avatars 10 MB = 10 million characters Assuming the average post consists of 500 characters... 10 million characters / 500 characters per post = 20,000 posts. So, I'll have the equivalent of 20,000 posts sitting on my server, doing absolutely nothing. And I'll need to keep those 20,000 "posts" there for all eternity. My server's hard drives are large enough for 10 MB to still be next to nothing in the grand scheme of things, but I'll still have the moral responsibility to hold on to the avatars of 200 people who contributed nothing or almost nothing to the community. Besides, as I said, it creates a nice feeling of progression. Look at these two posts - it had the intended effect on TwilightSparkle and Lupus: It was 10 posts, but we decided to put it down to 5 and remove the limitation on editing your profile as a Blank Flank. As I said up above, server space really isn't an issue for me - the fact that I allow unlimited attachment uploads up to 50 MB in size each should be proof of that (that said, my server's hard drives are not unlimited - use the space freely, but do not intentionally abuse it by uploading a 10 GB PC game or something).

Hello there, and welcome to MLP Forums! We're all newbies here - the site opened less than 72 hours ago. I'm Twilight Sparkle, one of your two admins, and also the owner/administrator of our server. If you ever need any help, feel free to get in touch with Kurt or myself anytime. I hope you enjoy your stay!

This site hasn't even existed for 72 hours yet. Spambots simply haven't had the time to discover it yet. And when they do... ...we've got the IPS Spam Service on our side. That thing has stopped over 1000 spammers at TheWiiU.com - it works wonders. Clearly, most of you haven't been to many IP.Board forums before.

Let us have our beauty sleep!

Banned 'cause we don't have 1000 posts on this thread yet? Amateurs. http://mlpforums.com/public/style_emoticons/default/dry.png

Um, yes. It most certainly does. It's written in the Cyrillic alphabet, and was actually my first language.

100% Bulgarian. Did you know that English is my third language?

Further details on the ranking system will be announced when we've finalized it. But it most definitely won't consist of Mario enemies.

Yeah... no.

Why?

Say hello to Romeo, everypony.

Joined - and someone made me an admin! I was just about to say that the group can't be our official one until Kurtiss and/or I are admins of it. But seeing as I am, that is indeed now our official Steam group! Gonna pin the thread for that. I don't usually get much time to play video games (and I don't happen to be too brilliant at shooters, which I know most of you will probably be playing), but I'd be happy to join you guys for the occasional game. I think we should book game nights with the forum calendar, so everyone will know exactly when to be online. IP.Calendar will take timezones into account, and you can use its RSVP function to find out exactly how many people will be playing that night.

We have a proper pony-themed ranking system planned, but it wasn't completed in time for the forums' launch. We want to do it well, complete with special badges for each rank. I decided it wasn't worth having one at launch if it was only going to be a half-assed list of ranks entered into the ACP in two minutes. What you're seeing right now is just IP.Board's defaults, with the Blank Flank I added.