Praise Isara and Cheat

Kinder Graham · January 04, 2015, 04:35:12 PM

>get home from spending day with family
>take massive shit
>gets on sep7agon
>has to fap because of how gorgeous it is

It's pretty cool, and sad (on Bungie's part), that two individuals can make a better layout than a multi-million dollar company

January 04, 2015, 04:37:13 PM

Joshua Graham was a terrible character

Kinder Graham · January 04, 2015, 04:42:32 PM

Quote from: SecondClass on January 04, 2015, 04:37:13 PM

Azula was a terrible character

I know lol

January 04, 2015, 04:49:46 PM

Quote from: Kinder Graham on January 04, 2015, 04:42:32 PM

Quote from: SecondClass on January 04, 2015, 04:37:13 PM
Azula was a terrible character
I know lol

It's impossible to not like Azula without lying, I'll have you know.

inb4Igetbannedforderailing

Magos Domina · January 04, 2015, 04:54:45 PM

Yeah it really makes you wonder what Achronos and the web team were doing....

Kinder Graham · January 04, 2015, 04:59:38 PM

Quote from: Kiyohime on January 04, 2015, 04:54:45 PM

Yeah it really makes you wonder what Achronos and the web team were doing....

They're simply trying to go the big and flashy route to attract ADHD self-diagnosed teens. Simplicity and a fluid design like this site has is objectively far superior

Cheat · January 04, 2015, 05:26:27 PM

Quote from: Kiyohime on January 04, 2015, 04:54:45 PM

Yeah it really makes you wonder what Achronos and the web team were doing....

Probably stroking Activision off.

Mad Max · January 04, 2015, 05:28:43 PM

Question:

Is the new design any sort of legal gray area when it comes to "copying" what Bungie.net used to have?

Magos Domina · January 04, 2015, 05:29:28 PM

Quote from: Cheat on January 04, 2015, 05:26:27 PM

Quote from: Kiyohime on January 04, 2015, 04:54:45 PM
Yeah it really makes you wonder what Achronos and the web team were doing....
Probably stroking Activision off.

I thought Deej and Jason Jones were busy doing that? Then again Activision has big balls with an even bigger asshole so maybe it did take the entirety of the staff to pleasure it.

Isara · January 04, 2015, 05:33:04 PM

Not to disappoint you, but probably the people who worked on the website weren't that many. Usually such an effort even in a big company could mean about ten people at most, and knowing how these things are and how important managing human talent is it was quite hard to come up with a great design. What was the doom of it though was the lack of communication.

From the start Sep7agon V2 was transparent. The first concepts were shared, and discussed with the community. It wasn't a top secret project (at some point maybe it was) for its whole length. Also, thinking that wherever you work on a website what you start with often is about:blank you can say a lot of work and imagination goes into doing this work.

Kinder Graham · January 04, 2015, 06:13:21 PM

Quote from: Mad Max on January 04, 2015, 05:28:43 PM

Question:

Is the new design any sort of legal gray area when it comes to "copying" what Bungie.net used to have?

If it's anything like with Youtube and music, so long as it's not an exact copy-cat and has different features then it should be fine

Isara · January 05, 2015, 08:04:34 AM

No, and some of the patents about avatar placement, menu placements and so forth are laughable to look at. Bungie.net, especially back then copied a couple of other concepts, but changed them. The same happens here, but I have been pioneering transparency, and that exact avatar placement as early as 2006 or 2007 which is when it started appearing and increasing in popularity. (That is when also Bungie.net had its big post-Halo 2 update)

tl;dr Not a grey area. I did most of the work on the new design based on the license of the theme we had, and all resources are attributed where necessary.

Quote from: Mad Max on January 04, 2015, 05:28:43 PM

Is the new design any sort of legal gray area when it comes to "copying" what Bungie.net used to have?

Mad Max · January 05, 2015, 09:59:59 AM

Quote from: Isara on January 05, 2015, 08:04:34 AM

No, and some of the patents about avatar placement, menu placements and so forth are laughable to look at. Bungie.net, especially back then copied a couple of other concepts, but changed them. The same happens here, but I have been pioneering transparency, and that exact avatar placement as early as 2006 or 2007 which is when it started appearing and increasing in popularity. (That is when also Bungie.net had its big post-Halo 2 update)

tl;dr Not a grey area. I did most of the work on the new design based on the license of the theme we had, and all resources are attributed where necessary.

Quote from: Mad Max on January 04, 2015, 05:28:43 PM
Is the new design any sort of legal gray area when it comes to "copying" what Bungie.net used to have?

Good to hear. I just wanted to be sure that we didn't get this awesome new design only to get a C&D from Bungie or something.

Keep up the good work!