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Peter_Eater

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#1 Peter_Eater

Member since 2006 • 3721 Posts

I just thought of an idea that would IMHO make the site more appealing for browsing.

The site background is almost always themed by a game or a sponsor commercial and I sometimes repeatedly try to refresh the page so I get a background that soothes me at that moment. Here's where my idea comes into place:

It would be very nice to have a button to switch to some of the possible site backgrounds, and an option to keep this background until it expires (the site removes it for another).

This would make browsing the site much more pleasurable if I can set the mood myself instead one being forced upon me.

Thanks for bearing with me.

Cheers!

Pete

14 years ago

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#2 fabz_95

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I assume you're talking about the homepage since that's the only page that has a background in the form of an advert for me. If so then that's a good idea, GS have several adverts that appear from time to time and being able to switch them around would be a nice idea. This might not be possible however since companies paying for those adverts may find their adverts are being unseen as people are switching their backgrounds to the more appealing adverts.

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#3 Peter_Eater

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[QUOTE="fabz_95"]I assume you're talking about the homepage since that's the only page that has a background in the form of an advert for me. If so then that's a good idea, GS have several adverts that appear from time to time and being able to switch them around would be a nice idea. This might not be possible however since companies paying for those adverts may find their adverts are being unseen as people are switching their backgrounds to the more appealing adverts.

Yeah I'm talking about home page, but it should be possible to extend this to all the pages you browse. I know the will likely choose not to do this, but I can think of several ways around adverts not being seen- eg. a preview of new backgrounds in a window in some sort of a sidebar.

14 years ago