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 Posted: Tue Jul 23, 2019 12:43 pm
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Hey folks! It is I, the current volunteer maintaining a Compilation of Color Scheme Guides (alongside other actual color guides). I was thinking of bringing up this topic in that thread, but since I only just went through most of the guides 2 months ago, it seemed kind of hasty. So I'll drop it here for now, to get my thoughts in order, and maybe hear others' thoughts.
I do intend to go through all of the guides in the guide thread to determine if they're still relatively up to date. It's kind of a bummer to go to a guide for a scheme to find that it's a few months out of date (or even years), so I'd like to note if a guide is out of date in the guide thread itself. I plan to do this check in either November or December.
Which kind of brings me back around to the thing I want to discuss: there's currently a huge number of colors that do not have an up to date guide.
A lot of people are quitting, that's completely understandable, people aren't 100% obligated to note that they're quitting in their guides, they can leave whenever they want to. Heck, people can just stop maintaining their guides while staying on Gaia, and that is also completely understandable. No shade here folks, I have also quit Gaia before, and still contemplate it nowadays tbh.
The question (as the guide thread keeper) then becomes, at what point do those unmaintained schemes become "out of date", and, what happens when the larger guides that usually maintain those schemes also fall out of date?
It is kind of impossible to talk about this without mentioning ladykayra's Unguided Schemes, which has sort of become a big ol fallback for so many colors and schemes. It also hasn't updated since April 1st, and is part of why I'm publicly wondering this.
But this kind of situation has also happened to actual color guides. Most notably I am also publicly wondering about Shades of Blue, which I went through to try and grab schemes such as Ripple and Rainy, but doesn't note an update date in the thread (that I've seen) and seems to be several months out of date, at least in terms of Ripple.
Is it just too much work to maintain a color scheme thread within the forums at this point? (Which is totally fair. Huge guides are a pain.)
I did go back and get the daily color scheme listings up to date, and I don't mind keeping up with it actually, though after putting so many schemes together I have a hard time noticing whether an item is new or a rerelease, so uhh bear with me.
Guides aside, a lot of schemes are just decently tagged lately, so people don't necessarily need a guide to find the scheme. If no one makes a guide for a scheme, but the scheme can be found through a tag, should I track that in my guide thread, despite not being a guide? Should the color scheme guide comp thread simply become the color scheme comp thread, just a list of schemes, and links to the marketplace tag?
I'm not sure yet. I should probably send a few "hey what's up" pms to kayra and other guidemakers, so uhh, consider this a more public PM that other guidemakers (color scheme or not) may comment on.
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Posted: Thu Jul 25, 2019 12:29 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 03, 2019 1:05 pm
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Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2019 9:17 am
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Zeetheus Welcome back, I hope you're recovering well! TBH the main forums and guilds both have their own pros and cons. I used to have my Heterochromatic Eyes guide in the guild, but after a huge update it had cut out whatever bypassed the character limit at the end of the post, and I lost a whole section. So that's one downside to the guilds. Though if someone's a bit more gung-ho about separating things into smaller posts it can probably be avoided. There's also the fact that threads in the Guides section are much more visible than in the guild, it's fairly organized here but honestly the guild itself is kinda buried, unless you know where to look for it. Due to recent events I've been feeling kind of bitter towards Gaia myself so I haven't done nearly as much guidebuilding as I wanted to and am kind of behind in updating them... maybe in a week or two... I do like the 'random colors' thread idea... I'm already collecting/sorting small purples here and there, I think it'd be interesting to see what gets collected by the users. Also I'm not sure if you checked out the color scheme guide comp thread yet, I did end up adding all of the unguided Tie-Dye schemes since most of them were decently tagged. I'm unsure of what you want to prioritize guiding atm, but you can probably put most of the named/official schemes a little lower?
Ah, yeah the guilds not warning about being over post limit is pretty bad. When I was doing the monthly summaries I actually pasted the list into word and had it count the characters for me to stay in the character limit. I can totally see not wanting to risk that. You're right guides is definitely the place for more visibility, plus users can actually subscribe to threads for updates there. I suppose I always figured the guild as more of a staging area for guides and then if people wanted them in the main forums they could use a mule (if they wanted others to be able to make updates). Granted ideas and execution change over time.
That's, well Gaia is certainly making some choices there. I don't blame you for taking a break after that.
Ah! Neat! I think my first step will be getting the hex guide/list of color schemes up to date. That'll allow for planning color guides a bit better I think. After that I'm not sure though. Probably re-sort schemes and then just pick a color to start with, maybe orange or yellow since those both feel like they've been without guides a long time. Red might also be good but....crimson I do not look forward to. It definitely helps to be able to put tie-dyes a bit lower on the list |
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