What do you call your signifact other?

balls said
It has fine colors but it becomes weird because they become permamently unlocked once the treshhold is reached.

This is both cool - because there's more customisation and freedom.. and confusing - because users with 10000 posts can equip colors for 500 posts, which always makes you double check.

Fortunately the site is 'small' enough that everyone knows eachother by username alone anyway, so it's not that much of an issue. I think the permamently unlocked thing is a cool idea but it's very hard to execute without being SOMEWHAT confusing.

One way to do is, is give certan post treshholds "sets" of colors, for example:

- 500 posts gets pink, blue, green
- 1000 posts gets even more different colors
- 2000 posts gets gradient colors
- 5000 gets neon colors

etc..

I'm just spitballing here tho, so take it with a grain of salt.

On .com I prefer that method personally, and it's something we implemented on here, it's mainly the only way to "unlock" colors without VIP or being an OG Vet. Colors are purely cosmetic and so users would want to switch for profile themes, so we'd have no reason to restrict that after you gain more posts. In my opinion, users do not need a visual distinction between post count mainly just because we have the "messages:" statistic public on mini profile cards, so users already tell at a glance how many posts a user has.

This feature originally stemmed from sites like .is and .org, because there's a cultural "predisposition" to point out newbies (the whole point of being called a "greycel", because their username is the default grey), and is mainly used to outcast outsiders from entering the space. This concept goes against the culture we're trying to aim for which is why we didn't implement the static color progression and instead of used it as an "reward" system, similar to trophies.

Most sites don't have a system like this because it usually doesn't make sense to, it's solely a cultural thing on these other sites.