We've got FLOYD! I dig the new logo. 

 

This is Scampie, posting from another proxy our mysterious proxy poster is using, seen here:
http://www.celephais.net/board/view_thread.php?id=3&start=1758

This new proxy's site is:
http://anonymouse.ws

Here's a list of proxy's that someone may use and their offending IP ranges.

http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?BecomingAnonymous

I suggest banning them all, or, adding code to func_ that will ensure you're posting to the board, from func, not from a site dynamically mirroring func. 

http://chantalstainedglass.50megs.com/trollhunt.html 

is sometimes very slow or can't be established at all. Are there problems with the new server? 

Pope has tricksied us all! 

Next they'll convince us that contraception is bad! 

When func_ is down pope's and my own website are still up. 

I had a 403 error (forbidden access) for 1 hour this morning.. Someone else noticed it ?? When this fucking apache server will be stable ? 

Same problem. But it doesn't seem to be very long outages. 

if it keeps happening i'll have to write a letter. 

...without being defaitist... start your letter now... ;P 

.. Please write your letter, the server was down again this morning (server hour near 04:00) during 1 hour... Is it planned to stop ne day ?? 

good luck! 

at least this time there was a message on the webhost's main site (globat.com) saying they were moving to new servers to help speed up the websites. So i'll wait and see if 1. there's any speed up, and 2. there are no more outages. 

So I'm not 100% happy with it yet, but it's probably going to be this logo for a little while, until i figure out what i need to do to finish it.

My main complaint with it right now is that I don't like having two crates in the logo. So I plan to find a different brown background image. 

It's more prominent, and just overall better. Maybe the crate could use a tex though. And maybe a little 'slogan' or something below func_ "Mapping community" or somesuch.

For BG image, maybe something that epitomizes mapping or is more obvious. 

i like the title image too. I think the small crate would be better left unskinned. I agree that 2 crates in the image is too much, but I don't think any sort of mapping grid background picture would be very good, its so cliched. It might need a 'slogan' or something as Phait said; more precisely: something that describes the purpose of the board, as currently it's not immediately obvious to first-time visitors.

Visually, i think there needs to be some seperation between the "News / Forum / People.. thing and the main content of the title graphic. Maybe a black bar running along the bottom of the image, which the crate could overlap slightly. As it stands, where the menu bar and the graphic meets, it looks a little messy.

Just a few thoughts, I'm impressed with it though. 

Crate there makes me wish the logo bit had a random icon put up there... just the cool ones... crate, cheese, pig, pimp hat, some of the game icons. would be alot of work I know, but it's a nice idea. 

I wrote a PHP script that pulls a random quote out of a .txt file - one quote per line. Just put an image tag per line and it'll grab it. 

Creating all of the high-res icons is still work. Though, i've sort of considered it :P 

If you really want a set, a specific amount, I'll happily design them. I need a break from the PHP learning/work I've been doing. 

We would have to include the Neutral emoticon so we can accurately express the melancholic state that our anti-social user base tries so hard to repress. 

I had a title with exactly 70 characters, and Func still complained when I tried to submit it.