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Posted by: dazarobbo
Immersion? Come on. This is a site based on a form of entertainment where its members are also here in their spare time for [arguably] entertainment as well. Consider that other sites with forums allow their members to post images.Okay, immersion is the wrong word to use. But the site definitely has a very specific feel to it. I don't think of browsing it the same way I think of scrolling through Facebook or going onto YouTube or even going onto other forums (DPedia or Nerdfighters... which I hardly go on anymore). Maybe it's the dark, somber mood that the dark grey color scheme has put over the site but the pictures are just a bit jarring. But, like I said, it's okay that Bungie Employees can do it because there's so few of them, and those few employees post so little, and those post so rarely contain pictures, so it's a nice little change from the norm.
But once they become the norm, they're not longer a change from the norm. Again, "too much of a good thing".
Besides, I'm sure you could easily ignore an image by "scrolling past" it ;)In-jokes, in-jokes, I love me some in-jokes.
Posted by: dazarobbo
The main body of each page is fixed as it should be to accommodate users with smaller-sized monitors (eg. 1024x768), but its parent element(s) are set to stretch to 100% width, which is how we have the ohmygodiseestars background. That is how most sites are designed.
Just an additional note: as a Windows 7 user, when I snap two programs to either side of my screen, thus reducing the resolution of my browser lengthwise, this sort of stuff can become very annoying. (browsing Amazon like that in particular is torturous and laborious beyond words)
[Edited on 08.25.2012 8:33 PM PDT]