Hi everybody! It might be a shock, but Septagon 3.0 is something I'm actually making progress on after like 4 years. So, I posted these comps in the Discord channel for development, but I know a lot of you guys don't really participate in it (understandable), so I wanted to make a thread here to get some extra feedback.

The original concept was this:

Nuka pointed out it looks a LOT like B.next. And it does. I kind of naturally...fell into that trend as I designed it so that the focus could be on content, but I do understand the draw to the old way of doing things. After some discussion, I think the best thing to do would be to have the above as the default style for new users and guests, and then have a simple toggle in settings that will let you theme the site with the older style in mind.

Here's what that might look like:

New ranking changes are as follows:

• On the new style, only staff and special ranks are given colored labels. Normal ranks would look the same but would read differently. The highest rank, Mythic or Marty, would get to be a colored label, to show off.
• Users would get both a cumulative rank (level) based on posts, activity, liked posts, ban count, etc. over time. This would only go up. Users would also be ranked relatively against each other for their Heroic, Legendary, Mythic, etc.
• If you use the old style, the nameplates would behave similarly to how they do now, with the background color matching your rank (Legendary, Mythic, etc.).

Lemme know your thoughts here. Would the majority of you be OK with the default theme being the new style as long as you could toggle on the old style from settings? Coup would be an additional option on top of this, so you could have both enabled.

Higher quality videos of these comps are in the discord server.

Will there be beta tests?

For sure. And alphas before that.