Curious Cones

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curiouscones's avatar curiouscones 2 weeks ago

I essentially rewrote the entire site to make this happen.

themausoleum's avatar themausoleum 2 weeks ago

I like these boxes for the text! Also oh no now that there's a leaderboard I need to go take more photos to win

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curiouscones's avatar curiouscones 2 weeks ago

the boxes caused a lot more trouble than you'd think. turns out chrome won't blur anything taller than around 16300px. >_>

nohappynonsense's avatar nohappynonsense 2 weeks ago

making a leaderboard just so that you can be in first place smdh

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wildbread's avatar wildbread 1 week ago

im not here to get the most cones. I want to find the curiousest cones

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curiouscones's avatar curiouscones 3 weeks ago

a round of applause for Mike V. for submitting the widest cone photo to date, exposing an oversight in my CSS that I had to fix

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nohappynonsense's avatar nohappynonsense 3 weeks ago

i think the cone is pretty regular sized, personally

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curiouscones's avatar curiouscones 3 weeks ago

big update to site design. would appreciate feedback. I'm particularly interested to know how people feel about the readability of the text against the background.

curiouscones's avatar curiouscones 3 weeks ago

make sure you Ctrl+F5 to reload the main CSS file too

nohappynonsense's avatar nohappynonsense 3 weeks ago

reads fine, could use more cones tho

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themausoleum's avatar themausoleum 3 weeks ago

I think the text in the road sign like bubbles reads great and is a really cute idea. But I think when its got nothing behind it, it does get hard to read against the textured background. If you used the road sign background for all text, I think that'd help immensely.

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curiouscones's avatar curiouscones 3 weeks ago

The way I had to implement the road sign look is not something I can do in Hugo to render all text that way. I could just rewrite all pages in HTML instead of Markdown, but I don't want to do that. I'll play around a bit in the coming week with adding a darker background behind paragraphs. I already have a dark shadow on the text. It may just be a matter of increasing its size.

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nohappynonsense's avatar nohappynonsense 4 weeks ago

hell yeah it's cone season baby, all hail the mighty green cones we all put inside our homes

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film in the mail - new cones coming soon
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nohappynonsense's avatar nohappynonsense 1 month ago

bad to the cone

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petition to rebrand candy corn as candy cones
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