Hello EF!

We’re back with more new skins!

First of all, thank you for the lovely reception our artists and new skins received last week. We understand no one likes change and getting used to a different aesthetic can be an uphill battle. As we’ve mentioned in previous posts, one of the goals of the facelift was to help modernize the experience in a small way. We’ve talked before about how old our software is and…seriously, in internet years? We're dinosaurs. The new skins don’t change the functionality, but they do accommodate the current trend in websites, particularly the desktop experience, which has evolved past the broad borders and empty space that defined our previous skins.

Second of all, we want to thank all the members who chimed in last week to let us know what gaps remained in the new skins designs. The member experience is so important to us, and since everything here hinges upon reading and readers’ visual comfort, we were happy to accommodate the needs that were brought to our attention. With that said, we’d like to thank MillennialCryBaby, loveisntbrains_, mcgnagallsarmy, and scratchmeout who reached out to the Mod team following last week's announcement with offers of fresh art to help fill those gaps.

We now have:

• Two skins with a mustard yellow theme (“mr and mrs summers”; “how to train your vampire”)
• Four skins with alternating colors between story lists (“mr and mrs summers”; “what happens at restfield”; “other worlds than these”; “becoming us”)
• One skins with color combinations new to EF (“what happens at restfield”)
• Two neutral skin options (“best night of my life”; “other worlds than these”)
• Two additional blue-themed skins (“primal solarized”; “till the end of the world”)

All skins are live and available for selection. In order to set one of the new skins as your default, visit Edit Preferences under Account Info. 

Here are previews of the skins that have been added since last week. 

• Skin name: Becoming Us
• Banner artist: Irandamay

• Skin name: Best Night of My Life
• Artist: loveisntbrains_

• Skin name: How to Train Your Vampire
• Artist: MillennialCryBaby

• Skin name: Mr. and Mrs. Summers
• Artist: MillennialCryBaby

• Skin name: Other Worlds than These
• Artist: scratchmeout 

• Skin name: Primal Solarized
• Artist: HappyWhenItRains

• Skin name: Till the End of the World
• Artist: scratchmeout 

• Skin name: What Happens in Restfield
• Artist: mcgnagallsarmy

The older skins that we reuploaded last week (not-without-a-fight, smile, and spuffy1) have been removed once more.

Thank you again to our artists and our wonderful membership.