Keeping with the little note about "The Seven Essential Meta Questions of Every Beta", I thought I'd open the discussion about the graphical interface of our lovely anime/manga site!
So, I suppose anyone with suggestions should post them on up! I'm sure the whole community would love to see all ...
my initial idea: obviously the site should feature handdrawn anime-ish drawings, but the challenge is we can't really use any well known characters since they're copy righted.
I think we should be kinda careful with any characters we draw that may be very very very similar to known characters, not so much because of copyright and whatnot, but rather because I think it always looks lame to have characters that "are supposed to be" recognizable characters. Always looks kinda fake to me.
Here is my proposal for the community logo. I did it in the style of the Japanese mon (family emblems):
This typographic logo uses the stylized kanji for 画:
Still sort of buggy. The dropdown only has some of the sites listed (not us yet). That could just be cached. There's also no main site link and no chat link.
@iKlsR There are a bunch of sites which have been planned to graduate for a while, and I'd assume we're behind them on the list. I know Salesforce and Graphic Design, and there might be others too.
@iKlsR I'm honestly not sure we're ready to graduate, but OTOH the only possible negative change is that rep levels increase. If that's it that just means it'll be a bit more work for a while for those of us with >3k.
I do think we're still fairly low in terms of overall users, and our answer stats could use some work.
Ouran High School Host Club, Clannad, Black Butler, School Rumble, xxxHolic, Ga Rei Zero, Soul Eater, Full Metal Panic, Dance in the Vampire Bund, Chobits, Baka and Test, Samurai Champloo, D.Gray-man, Cowboy Bebop, Ghost in the Shell, Fruits Basket, Death Note, Sgt. Frog ... the list goes on~