TOPIC: [FORUM] Consistent Forum Badges

Server Name:

Forums

Suggestion Title:

Consistent Forum Badges

How would it benefit the server:

This would make the forums look a tad more consistent. Currently, the badges are inconsistent overall and it gives off a rushed impression.

Potential Issues/Exploits:

Potentially too great of an addition. It can improve the forums to a point where people cannot handle it and decide to make irreversible and harmful decisions; causing significant pain and distress for others and themselves.

Additional notes:

Here are a few examples of what I have in mind, nothing awfully drastic, but a tad more consistent. Capitalized text, slight shine on the server badge, and a consistent width across all badges.

These aren't ready-to-use as I whipped them up to demonstrate. I plan to add some slight details beyond the consistency changes to make them look less boring.



The rest will be made based on the feedback on this thread.

Also, here's an alternative version I've made earlier, of the SA badge, tell me if you like this one better than the above ones, or if we should keep it simple:



That is all for this thread. Leave feedback on potential changes, or simply give your opinion on the change.

Rick Townsend wrote:
I'm not sure if you were referring to font alone, or if you meant having the wording above the badge, but i'd sure love to see the badges have tool-tips with the wording of each rank for sure.

Is it just me that can’t see the difference

Jim_Jam wrote:
I've got my glasses on and still can't see the difference I could be buggin tho

Small changes. They're listed on the post.

Stuff like the consistent width and height doesn't necessarily show, but it is using the exact same dimensions as the ZARP VIP badge which looks cleaner when a player is both VIP and staff. Also, the text is capitalized. There are a few style changes, but those aren't important.

Old Badge:


vs.

New Badge:
or

A tooltip would be neat, but the devs would have to sort it as it requires a tad bit of HTML & CSS. Not sure if they are willing to do it.

Rick Townsend wrote:
If anything, more shadow to the letters in bright background. It's common logic having bright letters in a bright background not compatible without it.

Rick Townsend wrote: alt or title tag will work fine

ItsDonny wrote:
Yes, I agree. These pictures aren't final as stated on the thread, so things like that are going to change.

The title attribute doesn't work well on mobile, and it's not a very good practice to use it for tool tips for that reason. For desktop, sure.

Rick Townsend wrote: aka will work fine

The only inconsistency across the rank badges is the colours being different for some servers, and the reason for that is because the badges themselves on Discord/Teamspeak for those servers have different colours (namely the mod badges for each PS server and the colours for PS and SSRP ranks)

TheXnator wrote:
There are also sizing inconsistencies between these rank badges and the ZARP VIP badges, as well as a capitalization difference. It is not the end of the world but paying less attention to details like these will at scale create a quite poor design, so I am proposing to sort these things out.

I think the consistency will be good, and it is fairly minimal effort to get these badges sorted as I'll be the one doing it. If you disagree, feel free to explain why!