Board Thread:Administrative Requests/@comment-410526-20160829235154

Hey everyone, as you've probably noticed by now, the Wiki has a new set of backgrounds site-wide. I think we can all agree that this was long overdue, since the old look has been around literally since the Wiki started. This is just the first step in a total visual overhaul that I have planned and there are some cool new things in the works that I hope to get done sometime in the next week or so.

To recap: different namespaces now have different backgrounds. There are unique backgrounds for mainspace, forums, user pages, special pages, categories and a unique one just for the Wiki Activity page. I was even thinking of having unique backgrounds for certain specific pages (like a picture of Beacon Academy for the Beacon article, etc.), but thought that would be a bit much and inconsistent.

Another thing to note, the new backgrounds are .JPG files (they used to be .PNG). I personally couldn't tell the difference since they're in the background and already kinda grainy by design, but if others think they can see compression artefacts that's something I would like to hear some feedback on. Since there are a lot more backgrounds to load now, I wanted to keep filesizes as low as possible.

I created this thread just as a sort of centralized place for people to give opinions, suggestions, concerns and feedback on the new backgrounds for the Wiki. If you have anything you wanna say about the new backgrounds, feel free to share them here! 