News from the Top

VIPs are users who appear blue in our forums, and they are VIPs in the sense that what they say usually convey a lot of information about the game they are working on. Thus, we reserve the VIP title for regular, permanent game dev staff, given the attention that their posts get. When people see a name in blue, they naturally think that the person represents or speaks for the company.

Interns, by definition, are learning the trade, and don’t necessarily speak for the company. Plus they come and go, and if it became a regular thing it could be difficult to keep track of. Thus, we have decided to not grant VIP status to interns working in the industry. Exceptions may be made on a case-by-case basis by the EXCOs if the intern was working as a community relations manager.

We pushed an update to the forums to fix a bug related to blue text inside the BBCode assistant bar at some sites. We also removed the "UserName: " field above the BBCode Assistant bar as it was redundant—-the screen name is displayed in the navbar at the top in the welcome message. Behind the scenes we changed the way screen names were coded in HTML so that they utilitize CSS classes.

Note to forum HTML tinkerers

This deprecation notice applies to users who post in forums that have HTML enabled.

HTML code that interferes with the surrounding layout (such as breaking out of the message container, closing the parent table tags, etc.) are unsupported and will definitely break when we update our forum layout in an upcoming update projected to be released in January. Please adjust your posts accordingly.