That said...

What has happened to the site in the last day or so that the banner and darker colors are gone? It looks like some third rate corpo site for sale now. 

Does anyone know anything?

Just so folks know: In addition to their blogs header photo, they can also add their own pictures to their profile header. This picture will only show up when view your profile - as the name indicates.. I'll just use a "random" profile to show where to see this.

 I've personally chosen a picture with a size of 1920 by 300 but feel free to experiment with sizes.

But more interestingly, any idea on what causes this?

As shown in the picture, "Quote" has what I assume is either the "Spoiler" or "Preview" icon. The other errors are as follows:

• "Spoiler" has the icon for "Align Center"
• "Insert/Remove Bulleted List" has the Numbered List icon
• "Insert/Remove Numbered List" has a T-with-subscripted-x icon.
• "Align Center" has the "Align Right" icon
• "Align Right" has the Bulleted List icon.
• "Preview" has the "Quote" icon.

The heck is going on?

I mean even if it's actually not that hard to do, if your mod collection keeps growing eventually I'll be really hard to browse available mods.

I'm thinking if DS can provide a Requirements \ Mods requiring this file drop-down list similar like our neighbor has. I'm certain that'd go a long way making things easier both for the mod authors and end-users.

Much thanks for considering this -- cheers! 🍻

I'm working on a minor rebalancing mod for JK now, and I'd love to be able to share it with this community. Well, I can, but only like this. (And no, "use the Other Games section" is not a good solution, for reasons that I hope are obvious.)

Dunno about the demand for such an subsection - not like the Outcast/Academy ones have a lot of content but I thought I'd throw it out there.

I have 2 suggestions about updated mods:

1. It would be very useful if “Recently Updated” tab was added to the “File” section on the site’s main page (in the right part of the page). This way people will be able to switch between them with one click (like “First post/Latest post” in the preview window of topics).
2. Make it so that the message appears on the page "Activity" when the mod is updated.

My first thought was that something went wrong. Maybe the cache had a conflict, the site had a hiccup, or something. I tried a couple different pages that were in my history, just in case. Yet, each time it was the same. At that point I closed the tab as this "Account Verification" thing was not in a clearly defined or clean "window", nor was it cleanly part of the site page. I'm sure you can imagine my concern that something else was going on. Something that isn't legit from other places.

I'm assuming there was something that happened to cause this, especially since there's always an announcement when something is being changed. But what could it possibly be?

May I ask the Administration the reason behind the removal of the topic of mine "[KotOR] Revan's Mask" under the Mod Request section of this site? It happened without any kind of warning and with full disregard to the original topic which was not controversial in any way, since it was a mere request for help. There was no rule being infringed as far as I know (but the Administration can correct me if that is not the case) and I find this choice to be completely arbitrary and unfair.

I believe it was a rather crude and sly form of censorship because it didn't even bother to preserve the original topic which was actually hijacked by a member of your own Administration.

I think of all the possible action of "moderation", this taken was the worst possible and I hope that at least this message won't be removed and will be addressed properly by those in charge. Furthermore, I ask my own original topic to be reinstated since no rule was broken on my part.

Thanks for your attention.

I guess this shouldn't happen, right?

Thoughts?

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