Various things to do with the OTW and AO3

[alias_sqbr]

If the new AO3 skins are bugging you like they were me, go to the public skins, "Snow" is pretty close to the old settings. It would be nice if I could have learned about this from the AO3 instead of via my network :/ A tutorial would be nice too, I find the way skins are set up confusing and I have a computer science major (what is "chaining"?)

Speaking of the OTW, elections are coming up soon, and I have a vote this time! Unfortunately things have gone very pear-shaped recently causing a lot of pain to a lot of people, but hopefully the organisation can learn from it and grow stronger as a result. hl's endorsements in this post have been backed up by other people's I've seen, especially Julia Beck and Jenny Scott-Thompson(*), though Lucy Pearson has since dropped out. Here's a big collection of lots of links.

This is a nice description of how the preferential voting will work (in unlabelled pictures). One thing that may not be clear to people who are less familiar with this type of voting: if there's someone you really don't want on the board, number all the boxes and put that person last. In general, numbering all the boxes is the best way to make sure your vote counts.

(*)Who are, I must admit, the two I know personally. But this means I would have noticed if I'd seen anyone say a word against them, and I haven't.

Comments

[facetofcathy]

A tutorial would be nice too, I find the way skins are set up confusing and I have a computer science major (what is "chaining"?)

I actually have a certificate in (totally outdated) programming and I agree with this statement so hard. (Chaining is a method where you overlay one skin on another, sort of like layers in an image editing program. Like you can chain the Big Margin skin onto any of the other skins and the colours and such from the parent skin are applied and then the margins from big margin are applied. I don't know the process of doing that within the interface, though, I haven't tried yet.)

I never found snow on my first run through of the skins, or I might have tried it, even though actual white background is something I can only use briefly.

[sqbr]

I didn't find anything useful when I looked either, I saw someone else link to Snow.

Thanks for the explanation. The next time I feel in a program-y mood I'll have to have a poke at it.

[hl]

I can guide you through chaining if you want, as soon as I've a moment -- just ping me in gchat if you want?

[sqbr]

Oh, thanks! I'm pretty happy with Snow, for the moment, and I'm sure I can figure it out if I put my mind to it. It was more frustrating when I couldn't find a skin I liked or figure out how to fix the one I had. But if I get lost I'll give you a buzz :)

(Also I, uh, feel a bit tactless about posting this now. I can see that a lot of effort went into the skins, and I'm sure they'll be a step up in the long run)

[hl]

No, no worries about tact of whatever. I... er, don't have energy to expand upon it, but really, no issues if you need to hit me up for help.

[lian]

hey, thanks :)

[sqbr]

Thanks for being awesome :) And good luck!