Popular Post Voxy 7.3k Posted May 1, 2021 Popular Post Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 (edited) Hello everybody, hope you’re all doing well! Today, we’re very excited to announce that we're launching a big update for the Mine-imator Forums, with a beautiful new design, a revamped layout and a few extra features! In this post, we’ll cover all the changes we made, starting with... A snazzy new look Gone are the dark blues and grays of days past! With this update, we’re introducing a brand new design, based on an updated version of Inventory, the design system that powers the user interface of Modelbench, and soon, Mine-imator. Featuring a rich, bright color palette, updated typography and icons, and a wider, more spacious layout, this slick new theme will bring a much needed modern makeover for the forums. I really hope you’ll enjoy it! Join the dark side If you’re the kind of person who doesn’t like frying their retinas while browsing at night, don’t worry, we got you covered! The new theme comes with a built-in Dark Mode to make your reading experience a lot more comfortable when you need it. To enable it, simply click the moon icon on the top right of the page. The forums will automatically remember your choice, and you can disable it at any time, too! Note that for this feature to work properly, any existing color formatting had to be removed from posts. This was necessary to prevent text with dark colors applied to it from being impossible to read for Dark Mode users. News you can’t miss Unless you specifically follow the right forums, it can be easy to miss all the important new stuff we have to share with you. To help with that, we’re introducing Headlines, a new way of making announcements to the community. Headlines is a new feature on our homepage, allowing us to highlight any posts we want you to read, such as updates on the development of Mine-imator, important news regarding the forums, etc. This way, we can be sure you won’t have to worry about missing out on the latest juicy tidbits! A bit of spring cleaning As part of this update, we’re also changing the way the forums are organized, to remove unnecessary clutter, and hopefully, make them easier to navigate. The Mine-imator and Modelbench forums are now part of the same category, bringing them closer together, and making sure that you can find everything you need in one place. As for the Minecraft and Off-topic categories, they’ve been merged into the Lounge, the new home of all the stuff that isn’t about Mine-imator. What used to be a dozen subforums now neatly fit within 4 forums, Random talk, Other creations, Minecraft discussion, and Forum games. Let us know what you think about this new setup! And more! We’ve replaced the existing reactions with a new set of playful animations featuring our mascots Ashley and Jonathan, animated by @mbanders and myself. And for those moments where a mere upvote just doesn’t feel like it’s enough, we’re also adding a new “Love” reaction to the roster! Use it wisely! Moderators and members who have recently joined the forums will now display a badge next to their name in posts. User groups also have fancy icons next to their names! The number of won days and the number of questions you helped solve now display next to your posts, alongside your reputation points and your post count. The text editor has been updated with new icons and a few changes: Font and Size options were replaced with a Format option, letting you choose between three paragraph styles: Heading 1, Heading 2, and normal text. The text color option now uses the Inventory UI palette. While the selection is more limited, those new colors can automatically adapt for users that have Dark Mode enabled, ensuring high-contrast text no matter what background it’s being read against. The background color option also uses this new palette. It was tweaked to act like a highlighter tool, giving text a subtle background instead of a solid block of color. I’m very excited to start this new chapter of the Mine-imator Forums with all of you, and I hope you’ll enjoy it as much as I enjoyed working on it over the past few months. I’d also like to thank David, our trusty forum staff, and all our beta testers for helping me make this update possible. If you have any feedback or suggestions to make, be sure to leave a reply below! In the meantime, happy browsing, everyone! Take care. ✌ Edited May 2, 2021 by Voxy IronDefender25, ChennyWang0311, apocablakz and 79 others 47 5 1 29 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Excitablecell 193 Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 wow it's so cool 吊打小逗比 and Voxy 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
MoltenLapizza 270 Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 Majestic. Voxy 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
F animation 193 Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 nice Voxy 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
david 8.4k Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 Brilliant work on this truly bootiful design! Hozq, Field Team, justin_ and 10 others 11 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LacaMenDRY 1.3k Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 Finally after A Years of Waiting. @e finally get into this time so far. yimation and Voxy 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jossamations 188 Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 Beautiful! Plus finally my eyes can be blessed with dark colors LacaMenDRY 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FOXY TOONS 2.8k Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 This looks freaking awesome! LacaMenDRY 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LLotzz 62 Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 Oh how the times have changed... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
9redwoods 3.8k Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 This is beautiful! Amazing work, Voxy. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draco63 644 Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 YAYYYYY Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FOXY TOONS 2.8k Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 The Mine-Imator Forums update be looking C L E A N Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
CRAZYKOKEBROZ 64 Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 This place is now feeling more alive than ever before! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
X-ZaneZ9-X 157 Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 Pogchamp! I love the new refreshed design! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie-Mienai 1k Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 I don't know about you, but it made me nostalgic to see a screenshot of the first version of the forums. FOXY TOONS and Nicolasev 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChristofuPH 127 Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 BEAUTIFUL! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nimi 8.3k Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 2 hours ago, Voxy said: I’d also like to thank David, our trusty forum staff, and all our beta testers for helping me make this update possible. Not me cause I'm too busy making Mine-imator look like real life. Aric Horn and Draco63 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hozq 2.4k Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 liked it better before tbh. Spoiler /s very nice Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeafCold 2 Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 good job,thx Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voxy 7.3k Posted May 1, 2021 Author Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 1 minute ago, Nimi said: Not me cause I'm too busy making Mine-imator look like real life. Well Inventory wouldn't exist without you, so thank you for that! (Now come on get back to work you've got GPUs to melt) Cbr 2011 1 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hozq 2.4k Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 Just now, Aric Horn said: your indeed the best minecraft/mine-imator developer in the world, Nimi is the true reason of how we obtained mine-imator, without nimi then mine-imator wouldn't be possible i mean mine imator would still exist since nimi didn't create it... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
skiyall10 0 Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 Now that's actually nice Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rollo 3.2k Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
fjfghgggttt 0 Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 is look sooooooooooo good good job Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
__Mine__ 1.9k Posted May 1, 2021 Report Share Posted May 1, 2021 (edited) Looks great overall, and the new Dark theme is a real eye-saver (Thank you!), but I did notice one thing I'm really not a fan of... 5 hours ago, Voxy said: Font and Size options were replaced with a Format option, letting you choose between three paragraph styles: Heading 1, Heading 2, and normal text. This feels like a massive downgrade in terms of formatting. Now there's no longer any way to make specific text bigger or smaller without it affecting the entire paragraph. EDIT: Also might've found a bit of a bug; not sure if it's just a me thing, but the "Submit Reply" button doesn't refresh the page to display your reply if you're not on the last page of replies in the topic. This resulted in me posting this reply three times without me knowing (they all got merged into one, but I quickly edited my post to remove the duplicates). Also, reputation numbers no longer seem to be accurate; my rep shows as 1.8K when I actually have 1,772. Maybe they should round down instead (if possible)? Also also, though this may be a bit of a nitpick, but the Love reaction looks very similar to a Downvote from a distance. Edited May 1, 2021 by __Mine__ Aric Horn and MojangYang 2 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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