Facepunch Color Maps

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Alright, I'll be honest, I didn't give this a great amount of thought. But it popped into my head, and it seemed like it made sense.

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/172/55cff5ed-a40a-4504-9103-5241071c5e4c/image.png

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/172/375b4563-d1f4-4b44-adbe-145d10237543/image.png

What I did here is make a bunch of colorful boxes- I mean, map out Facepunch's content organization, to see if it can help us visualize some of our design philosophy.

Blue: content organized by recent activity
Pink: content organized arbitrarily by the forum
Green: content organized by the user

Here is how it compares to Reddit:

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/172/2e70622b-c4bc-4bdb-9ae9-f3587e73cb6a/image.png

Does this mean things? We will never know.

Note: the color coding is in regards to what you are seeing, not what you will see once you click it. That's why "Popular" is pink despite leading to a page that would be mostly blue.

Next up: How many clicks does it take to get to content?

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/172/0144105b-94e2-424c-88ff-8ffd7f1b97c3/image.png

(Who needs consistent colors?)

Green: it takes 1 click to get to content - usually, this is a listing of threads or posts
Yellow: it takes 2 clicks to get to content
Red: it takes 3 or more clicks to get to content

"Last post by" technically leads you to content in one click, but you'd naturally expect to arrive at the last post. I don't think anyone here reads the OP every time they enter a thread, so I made it half and half, it's 1 click in theory, but everyone clicks again on last page, anyway. Also remember that not every link is meant to lead you to content. And now, the comparison:

https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/172/628b28b4-35df-42ed-bad7-daa20a3bb289/image.png

Now, I know people don't want us to be Reddit. But take a look at our old fp_read and fp_popular pages, which were used by so many, and do a color map like this, and you'll see that, in places, we used to be more similar than we are now. This is just about recognizing what they do right in the user control/accessibility front, and where FP fails

Feel free to point out if this makes no sense, or what I could've done differently. And if you have a suggestion for other sites to map, or other criteria to form a color map around, I'm all ears