BoffinBrain
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Artist // Professional // Design & Interfaces
- United Kingdom
- Deviant for 19 years
- GitHub
My Bio
Web designer and web developer.
Fragments are/were a thing that you could use to award badges on other people's deviations or comments. Giving a Diamond badge (300 fragments) also granted the recipient a month of free Core membership (limited to one per sender, per year).
Clearly these were very powerful, which is probably why DA has decided to retire them on the 31st August. They will be replaced with a 'Gems' system, which appear to be similar, but will probably not award any Core subscriptions.
(Update: it looks like you can still give people Core with a Diamond badge, using 300 gems, but gems cannot be accrued so you are capped at an amount per week based on your subscription level. Crucially, this means that basic Core users can never get enough gems to gift Core to others, which I guess is what had the bean-counters concerned.)
Since being a senior member is effectively like having a Core+ subscription, I've been racking up tens of thousands of these things, so if anyone wants a diamond badge, a month of
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At the time of writing, the new Eclipse site style is being forced upon new users with no way to opt out. I'm unaware of when everyone else will be forced onto it, but I imagine it'll be soon, before the end of the year.At the moment, DeviantTidy isn't yet ready for Eclipse because it's so radically different. Some features are no longer required, such as indent guides (these are included in Eclipse). Which features do you value the most that you want to see ported over? And what aspects of Eclipse annoy you the most, that I might be able to fix?
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Still Alive and Kicking
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Greetings, fellow boffins and old-school veterans of DA! I figured it was time for a new journal after 3 years.
Other than a new icon and a tweak to the capitalisation of my name, not a lot's changed, but I do have an account on Twitter, where I am attempting to be more active in the coming new year.
If you have any pressing bug reports with things such as DeviantTidy then you're welcome to poke me over there or file an issue on its GitHub project page.
In other news, I'm still not a huge fan of DA Eclipse, but at least we can have larger user icons now, I guess. I'm not sure how I feel about the 'Classic green' skin button having a dinosaur icon. Is that being passive-aggressive towards people who still prefer the old DAv7? Couldn't they have used a llama icon instead? Oh well... Not my problem now.
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