#like idk what to rlly say anymore and i feel like im fucking tweaking

[hacknineirl]

i went thru op's blog and tried figuring out their point. and..... idk im kind of lost. like apparently op meant shit like "no i dont mean raw dogging it in a crowd, i meant doing it in a secluded area" (i think)? and i said this in the notes, but..... why didnt you specify what you meant? like tell me, why are these two strangers having sex in public? was privacy a choice? are they exhibitionists? are they too far from home? did they think they were secluded enough? however (and this isnt me talking abt the puritanical freaks), i still stand by my point. like everyone is entitled to be a little grossed out by accidentally catching 2 people in a secluded area (or whatever op meant). some people simply dont want to see some random strangers naked or interrupting an intimate act. and its also fucking stupid bc op is like "ermmmm youre weaponizing consent" LIKE....... THINK ABOUT THIS SLOWLY........ if i dont like something..... i wont want to see it it....... therefore, i dont consent to seeing two people having public sex. i really dont think its that deep. i dont mean to repeat myself, but its like the "i dont like coconut" example. i just dont fucking like that sort of thing. and its so AUGH bc i try to be as open minded as i can, because i dont know everything. and i know other people have different experiences and viewpoints than me, so im open to learn from people who know better........... but i really cant tell if op knows better. like at all. and i really dont think we should be making some sort of political think piece about how its the same kind of mentality behind anti gay/trans laws just because people dont want to come across 2 strangers participating in a kink that they dont like.

every time i try to make sense of that discourse so i can feel like "wow! i learned something new and expanded my world view" i just feel like im still in the same spot as i was before i saw that poll

its not fash behavior to not like something and not wanna be involved in it. literally this was the type of mentality i had w that poll "hey hacknineirl, do u want coconut cake?" "no thank you, i dont like that" "hey hacknineirl, do u want to see two people boning?" "no thank you, i dont like that" like, i dont like coconut and i dont want to eat anything with coconut in it. its not bc coconut killed my grandma or whatever. its bc i cant stand the taste and texture of it. other people are allowed to eat it and i wont stop them if they do, but i dont want to eat it. the same goes for public sex. i dont care if other people enjoy it, but i dont want to see it. its a kink im not into. thats it, i promise its not deep at all. i wont deny the existence of puritanical weirdos that limit what other people do w their bodies. but its gross to act like everyone who wouldnt want to see a sex act that theyre not into is a fash. literally go learn what "your kink is not my kink and thats okay" means bc thats the mentality i have. like kink at pride is fine bc like. if im going to pride, id expect there to be people dressed in kink gear. i know what id be getting into, so id be fine with it. but i wouldnt be fine w people fucking in the vegetable section of walmart bc i just want my spinach and carrots. and then the response to the poll was so fucking entitled like. if i dont want to see a sex act, then i shouldnt have to be exposed to it. i dont like shit like inflation, so im not gonna go browse that tag on FA . i dont like genshin impact, so im not gonna go on youtube and watch people play it. same thing w public sex. "hurr not liking public sex means you think sex is a violent traumatic act" i had no idea that asking people to have basic decency regarding boundaries is the same type of mentality behind anti gay/trans laws. had nooooooo idea that simply not wanting to see something that i dont like is fash behavior. yeah my bad, i should be perfectly cheery and happy to see something that i dont like actually! in fact! im not allowed to simply dislike things! quick op, tell me what would you do if your partner didnt want to have public sex. bc if ur so up in arms about someone not wanting to see strangers having sex in public, then what would you do if your partner didnt want to have sex in public?

[bawkrya]

ok so im just gonna pick at fr from a web designer pov because looking at this site on mobile will drive me into madness if they don’t fix it at some point. The rest of this post will go under a read more because it’s both super long and image heavy.

before i hit mobile though, I’m going to point out some things i just don’t personally like in general with the site design (and yes i am conscious that they are slowly updating to a new look)

this will come as a shock to no one, if you’ve seen previous web design related posts by others anyways, but i cant. stand this menu

[ID: A cropped screenshot of Flight Rising’s Main Menu]

fr, understandably, has a shit ton of links. it’s a petsite with lore and all that, whatever. The thing that bothers me specifically is the length of links and where some are placed.

1. i BELIEVE this counts as an accessibility issue where longer links kinda trap shorter links, goes into misclicks to other pages in the site, etc. etc.  2. i don’t think. the search link should be under library personally ? Maybe make it its own category. 

Dev Tracker & Media could go under this category, possibly add separate links to forum, player, and dragon searches with updated formatting

Dressing Room and Scrying Workshop could go under the “Play” category 

Forums can be it’s own category with possible subcategories being: Announcements & News, Help Center, and Flight specific discussion forum, maybe more 

Library category could then just be: Which Waystone, World Map, Game Database, and Encyclopedia.

Support should be it’s own category.

One thing on the shop category, and i hesitate to say this because im not CONFIDENT on this one, but I’m not sure Custom Skins exactly fits? or at least, it should be Purchase Gems -> Marketplace -> Custom Skins, not between crossroads and festive favors

Merch should probably go under purchase gems, and they should maybe uhh..... i guess change the name for it overall? because 1. “merch” alone does NOT look good with its placement, 2. its another actual money purchase thing and I think those should go on the same page

Along with that, in putting merch under that page, they could put previews of the merch with a button to go purchase instead of immediately going to their merch site (which to begin with it should open in a new tab if its going to a separate site?!!)

then this is a mix of both not liking it on laptop OR mobile, 

[ID: A cropped image of Flight Rising’s Clan Home page. The Bestiary link has a bright red box highlighting it]

Obviously these pages are old, but the graphics need to be updated, and there needs to be graphics for every link in the category-- seeing with this category alone there isn’t a graphic for the Bestiary already. On top of this they need to be in link order preferably. if they had a normal dropdown menu for mobile, mobile users wouldn’t be able to access the bestiary unless FR wanted to be STUPID and do further dropdown menus w their 200 links which would be STUPID and CLUTTERED

also in my opinion the Messages link isn’t necessary since we have the button at the top. If they put it there as an excuse for accessibility, they can just. add text to the buttons. like here’s a scuffed mockup but. 

[ID: Screenshot of Flight Rising’s Messages, Friend Requests, and Alerts icons edited to have Messages, Friends, and Alerts written next to the icons]

for the friends tab, they could prolly add friend requests at the top like they do for baldwin alerts, then have an online status thing for friends below with buttons to PM, trade, delete friend, etc. I think you’re already able to disable the online status thing with page visibility? but like, make those options separate if you dont wanna block off your entire page, but dont want to be seen online.

For mobile, they can just make the icons bigger.

then. i THINK. last thing on laptop site. 

[ID: A screenshot of Flight Rising’s Social Media links with old Logos to YouTube, Tumblr, Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, and DeviantArt]

update these fucking icons they are personally killing me, none of these logos are in use anymore (ALSO UPDATE THE TUMBLR THEME JESUS CHRIST)

ok now for mobile. what this post was originally for.

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as you all know, if you visit this site on mobile, there is literally no form of a mobile version for it. It is just a condensed version of the computer version of the site which is...Very Bad! 

Most of a sites visitors are going to be through mobile, i forget the exact percentage, but like it’s almost a given that people more readily have their phones with them than their laptop or tablet (which. im not going to bother with the tablet version, you can apply both computer and mobile criticisms to the site). in fact a lot of my time on FR is through mobile since I’m not at home 24/7 and I don’t tote my laptop around. Playing this game through it’s mobile site is Not Fun! 

I like, won’t be too pissy or anything bc like. it’s a petsite and I’m making this post for fun. but also like it was made in 2014? 2013? so I’m not going to be u kno. angry. but it nearing the point of ten years with this site and there still isn’t a mobile friendly version. that is lazy. If anything, if they wanted a site update to be the anniversary thing, they should’ve made that update be

Mobile update as primary thing, because designing the site for mobile is a shit ton of work with the amt of pages they have to work through.

Dragon Profile page update (*LOUD SIGH*)

Clan page update

Hoard update (i have thoughts on this too but i wont dive into it this post)

Purchase Gems page update

Dev Tracker update

Forums update

“but that’s a lot to update” well. that wouldve made the anniversary being a website update considerably more worth it, because in my opinion having the dragon profile pages be the ONLY thing to happen during the anniversary was a waste and a bad decision, because other website updates are just. normal whatever updates. it made the anniversary SUPER underwhelming especially bc the past ones (to my knowledge) have only been major game mechanic updates like the eye & ancients update and i believe? the color wheel expansion was an anniversary thing? someone can correct me on that I haven’t played this game as long as most LMAO

as for how i personally would situate the mobile site. shitty graphic time, bc im not putting too much effort into this (warning this will be LONG)

[ID: Image 1. A crudely put together screenshot of the top half of a Mobile View of Flight Rising with comments on either side. It ends with the Latest News segments “Riot of Rot” and “Hoard & Vault Revamp”

Comment 1, Left side: “no banner make it a solid color that matches the burger menu. size the logo correctly etc. Comment 2, Right side: “burger menu w ONLY the categories, goes to the homepages of the categories” Comment 3, Right side: “TWO latest news posts, maybe a button to go see earlier news (which may b something to add to comp too)” Comment 4, Right side: “center dates and comments maybe idfk”

At the bottom of the image there is an added “button” that says “more updates button”]

[ID: Image 2. The bottom half of the mobile view with comments on the left side. There is a put together white box that has the Plague Flight Logo and “plage dom !” written in it. Below it are the Site Status, Random Dragon, and Exalt Bonuses boxes from the site. Underneath that is a red box with “ad space” in the center, with a red footer at the bottom.

The footer contains, “social media! (specifally made icons for site)”, “better formatted links”, and “copyright”.

Comment 1: “idk what they would caption it but the flashy can go here.” Comment 2: “ONE site status update if they keep this format” Comment 3: “probably center these links. i dont know what they use to build the site but im sure you can make icons for social media on just about anything unless this is all handcoded. just. make small icons it takes two seconds and you can copy+paste”]

i dont even want to THINK about how the lair and all that would look on mobile, it was a chore doing the home page alone SOBS

anyways, in ref to these images though--

this is just slapped together and definitely wouldn’t be a final draft, it could use some tweaking

the flashy i refer to is the box that’s above the user box that says what flight is in dom, what festival is going on, etc.

when i mention building the site and “you can make icons for social media on just about anything” im referring to wordpress, wix, whatever is used to format the site. I really only have experience with wordpress thru elementor and divi (so far) so im not CERTAIN about other places but I feel it would be pretty common to have that tool. if not, making icons (or snatching some) is rlly not that hard, probably only costly depending on what their webdesigner(s) charge for icons

I’m not like certain on who does what, how the webdesigner(s) work with/price this site, etc. etc. this is just. going off of my own knowledge. and in general this whole post is my own knowledge abt shit i did no further research to FRs team specifically 

i think this is basically it, i’ll reblog with more if i think of anything, but feel free to add things yourself or in general discuss things. again this post was made for fun so im not taking it seriously or demanding for these changes to be made, just personal annoyances and preferences.

This is also my first time doing picture IDs for a post so if I need to correct anything or the like let me know and I’ll edit it in the post!