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I'm glad to hear that improvements are coming. Thank you. No it's not perfect yet, but Abby's answer gives me hope that more improvements will come as you continue to refine this process.

Since privileges are such a point of contention, please consider this proposal: create a single new design for semi-graduated sites and associate the privilege bump with that. This does a few things:

• It creates a shared visual identity that isn't the current beta design. In addition to helping users (and mods) on other sites understand what's what, it produces a clear visual change for the site's users (progress!).

• You're reluctant to bump privs, i.e. take privs away from some users, without giving them a design change at the same time.¹ This is a design change that you can use for that purpose.

• When you roll out the real design in 6-8 whatevers, you can make an even bigger deal about that because it'll be the only thing changing then. When Mi Yodeya graduated we held an online launch party around the new design and the "graduation" idea; that other stuff, like privs, was changing too was almost secondary.

My prior suggestion was to do something as simple as changing the color theme on the beta theme (and removing the word "beta", of course). If you want a design change that'll make users feel positive it might need to be a little more than that. And yes, I realize that I'm asking you to respond to a design shortage by adding another design to the list -- but if you're willing to consider that, you could give users on mature sites the graduated-site experience that they seek while still satisfying your goal of having a nice design to offset the loss of privs.

¹ "Note: We propose keeping the lower privilege thresholds in place until designs are ready because we think raising them without giving you something to celebrate just wouldn’t be that much fun." (Source)

I'm glad to hear that improvements are coming. Thank you. No it's not perfect yet, but Abby's answer gives me hope that more improvements will come as you continue to refine this process.

Since privileges are such a point of contention, please consider this proposal: create a single new design for semi-graduated sites and associate the privilege bump with that. This does a few things:

• It creates a shared visual identity that isn't the current beta design. In addition to helping users (and mods) on other sites understand what's what, it produces a clear visual change for the site's users (progress!).

• You're reluctant to bump privs, i.e. take privs away from some users, without giving them a design change at the same time.¹ This is a design change that you can use for that purpose.

• When you roll out the real design in 6-8 whatevers, you can make an even bigger deal about that because it'll be the only thing changing then. When Mi Yodeya graduated we held an online launch party around the new design and the "graduation" idea; that other stuff, like privs, was changing too was almost secondary.

My prior suggestion was to do something as simple as changing the color theme on the beta theme (and removing the word "beta", of course). If you want a design change that'll make users feel positive it might need to be a little more than that. And yes, I realize that I'm asking you to respond to a design shortage by adding another design to the list -- but if you're willing to consider that, you could give users on mature sites the graduated-site experience that they seek while still satisfying your goal of having a nice design to offset the loss of privs.

¹ "Note: We propose keeping the lower privilege thresholds in place until designs are ready because we think raising them without giving you something to celebrate just wouldn’t be that much fun." (Source)

I'm glad to hear that improvements are coming. Thank you. No it's not perfect yet, but Abby's answer gives me hope that more improvements will come.

Since privileges are such a point of contention, please consider this proposal: create a single new design for semi-graduated sites and associate the privilege bump with that. This does a few things:

• It creates a shared visual identity that isn't the current beta design. In addition to helping users (and mods) on other sites understand what's what, it produces a clear visual change for the site's users (progress!).

• You're reluctant to bump privs, i.e. take privs away from some users, without giving them a design change at the same time. This is a design change that you can use for that purpose.

• When you roll out the real design in 6-8 whatevers, you can make an even bigger deal about that because it'll be the only thing changing then. When Mi Yodeya graduated we held an online launch party around the new design and the "graduation" idea; that other stuff, like privs, was changing too was almost secondary.

My prior suggestion was to do something as simple as changing the color theme on the beta theme (and removing the word "beta", of course). If you want a design change that'll make users feel positive it might need to be a little more than that. And yes, I realize that I'm asking you to respond to a design shortage by adding another design to the list -- but if you're willing to consider that, you could give users on mature sites the graduated-site experience that they seek while still satisfying your goal of having a nice design to offset the loss of privs.

I'm glad to hear that improvements are coming. Thank you. No it's not perfect yet, but Abby's answer gives me hope that more improvements will come as you continue to refine this process.

Since privileges are such a point of contention, please consider this proposal: create a single new design for semi-graduated sites and associate the privilege bump with that. This does a few things:

• It creates a shared visual identity that isn't the current beta design. In addition to helping users (and mods) on other sites understand what's what, it produces a clear visual change for the site's users (progress!).

• You're reluctant to bump privs, i.e. take privs away from some users, without giving them a design change at the same time.¹ This is a design change that you can use for that purpose.

• When you roll out the real design in 6-8 whatevers, you can make an even bigger deal about that because it'll be the only thing changing then. When Mi Yodeya graduated we held an online launch party around the new design and the "graduation" idea; that other stuff, like privs, was changing too was almost secondary.

My prior suggestion was to do something as simple as changing the color theme on the beta theme (and removing the word "beta", of course). If you want a design change that'll make users feel positive it might need to be a little more than that. And yes, I realize that I'm asking you to respond to a design shortage by adding another design to the list -- but if you're willing to consider that, you could give users on mature sites the graduated-site experience that they seek while still satisfying your goal of having a nice design to offset the loss of privs.

¹ "Note: We propose keeping the lower privilege thresholds in place until designs are ready because we think raising them without giving you something to celebrate just wouldn’t be that much fun." (Source)

I'm glad to hear that improvements are coming. Thank you. No it's not perfect yet, but Abby's answer gives me hope that more improvements will come.

Since privileges are such a point of contention, please consider this proposal: create a single new design for semi-graduated sites and associate the privilege bump with that. This does a few things:

• It creates a shared visual identity that isn't the current beta design. In addition to helping users (and mods) on other sites understand what's what, it produces a clear visual change for the site's users (progress!).

• You're reluctant to bump privs, i.e. take privs away from some users, without giving them a design change at the same time. This is a design change that you can use for that purpose.

• When you roll out the real design in 6-8 whatevers, you can make an even bigger deal about that because it'll be the only thing changing then. When Mi Yodeya graduated we held an online launch party around the new design and the "graduation" idea; that other stuff, like privs, was changing too was almost secondary.

My prior suggestion was to do something as simple as changing the color theme on the beta theme (and removing the word "beta", of course). If you want a design change that'll make users feel positive it might need to be a little more than that. And yes, I realize that I'm asking you to respond to a design shortage by adding another design to the list -- but if you're willing to consider that, you could give users on mature sites the graduated-site experience that they seek while still satisfying your goal of having a nice design to offset the loss of privs.

I'm glad to hear that improvements are coming. Thank you. No it's not perfect yet, but Abby's answer gives me hope that more improvements will come.

Since privileges are such a point of contention, please consider this proposal: create a single new design for semi-graduated sites and associate the privilege bump with that. This does a few things:

• It creates a shared visual identity that isn't the current beta design. In addition to helping users (and mods) on other sites understand what's what, it produces a clear visual change for the site's users (progress!).

• You're reluctant to bump privs, i.e. take privs away from some users, without giving them a design change at the same time. This is a design change that you can use for that purpose.

• When you roll out the real design in 6-8 whatevers, you can make an even bigger deal about that because it'll be the only thing changing then. When Mi Yodeya graduated we held an online launch party around the new design and the "graduation" idea; that other stuff, like privs, was changing too was almost secondary.

My prior suggestion was to do something as simple as changing the color theme on the beta theme (and removing the word "beta", of course). If you want a design change that'll make users feel positive it might need to be a little more than that. And yes, I realize that I'm asking you to respond to a design shortage by adding another design to the list -- but if you're willing to consider that, you could give users on mature sites the graduated-site experience that they seek while still satisfying your goal of having a nice design to offset the loss of privs.