That is pretty dang awesome. o.o
Will it be a separate option/tab(Or will it be toggleable)?

Also, for long comments. Will it shrink down to a certain amount and you can basically click a "Read more" to go to the place where its commented, or will it stretch all the way down to accommodate?

Will you also implement a "Reply" button, to where you can reply to a comment from this box/area instead of having to go to the submission/journal?

Woah!!!some very good ideas I like the idea of a reply button. Lol,
this would be like a "master reply area" instead of having to find the comment on the journal or submission.
As for the size, the table will expand depending on how big he comment is, other than that, each comment box here is 60 PX in height, but it is not limited to that size.
I developed a lot of cool stuff for FA recently lol, you should check out the user profile page in my gallery

I personally think its a good idea. :p FA already implemented something like it, it happens randomly though, which is weird.

Yeh, Master reply area. xD

Understandable! :3

Awesome! Do you think these would be implemented by staff or are these just addons that may be given away freely? Or?

Wait ? What was added that looks like this ?
And it would not be an addon :) this was made with FA source code and the CSS.
:)

I'm not entirely sure. Randomly with replying it'll actually come up with a whole new window instead of comin' down to the bottom to reply, with its own URL and everythin'.
Ooooh. So it'd be implemented site-wide once its finished? o.o

Ohhh cool would you mind sending the URL? I have not seen it.
And idk about implementation. I do not know if I should send it to dragoneer, or imvu for approval.

I can't get it atm, as the new "Reply area" hasn't shown up for me again in a few hours. o3o I hope it does.
You could send it to'em, but make sure and copyright it first, don't want'em stealing it.

All submissions are copyrighted upon posting them. I am hoping to help create new developments to this site

You're doin' a good job so far. If you ever need help/suggestions I'd love to help. c:
I don't know how to code, but.. yeh!

Aww thank you so much <3 I got a lot of negative feedback from others before,
so it is nice to hear that someone likes it <3

Awwww. Well, sometimes change can be a worrysome thing for some people. Like the sidebar that FA implemented last month, which I hated btw(as most did). That was a stupid change, what you have is an interesting one. Hopefully toggleable though!

Yeh, I bet. c:
It'd be fun to collaborate, I'd love to help <3

Oh hehe thanks :) sure, your ideas have been helpful already :)!
You mean toggleable like you can turn it on and off?
Hmm... Idk if it should be. Cus the new IRC note system can not be toggled on/off, it is just an update.

Thank you! Note me whenever if you'd like to. c:
Yeh! Cause some people may not like the feature. Making it toggleable would help, making it optional. c:
Well yeh, but some people don't like that note system atm, yet they can't turn it off.
I personally became attached to the new note system xD

I like it too :)
But I do miss message topics.
I used to always title my comments.

Yay. c:
Never really understood the reason for message topics. XD
D'aww. Adorable. x3

D: I am there.

Lol what do you mean you are there??

My user name is at the top of the screenshot, not that I mind.

Ohh right!! Hhah ok, yeah sorry I did not realize.

Did you notice they got rid of "message topic"??

Do you mean the messages total next to the other totals?

Idk what u mean, this like in the top messages. Like comments received on submissions,journals and shouts. So when you click messages, it shows you this. If you click on the message It brings you to the journal, or submission where it was posted so you can reply and stuff.
But nelizar (abouve us) had a good idea to have the reply button here, so you can reply to comments from this page instead of having to click back forth between pages. :)

Having internal replying could be useful for those who have many watchers to keep up with. Generally I like seeing other comments and any modifications to the submission/journal by having to go to the source but it does create an extra burden on loading.

That makes sense )

Not a fan of the trippy border colors, but each to their own. :P

I remember back in 2006 when DeviantArt also just showed a list of links to comments, instead of the actual comment in the messages page.

Maybe the new revamped FA will bring this in as standard? Until then, I guess a user script is a cool idea. You said you have difficulty integrating their origin? But the name of the page/submission is right there in the original message, which is presumably what you're parsing. Perhaps I can take a look at your script and help you out?

I meant I had a problem with showing where the commets came from. Nvm
What kind of program Languages do you know ?

I know several, but web dev is my area of expertise, and clearly JavaScript is going to be the most applicable solution here. I've written Greasemonkey scripts before.

Wow awesome! I would love for your input on some other projects I am working on :)
Have you ever worked with Ferrox ? It is kind of like python with some PHP elements.
It is quite cool actually. Props to the developers

Never heard of it before, but I've heard of Ferrox Art Inc which was the old company that used to own FA.

According to WikiFur https://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Ferrox_(software) Ferrox is really old, and hasn't been touched since 2009. I assume it's not related to the current FA updates. Also, it's server-side.

My proposal to use JS to create a userscript for Greasemonkey/Tampermonkey means you don't need access to the server side - anyone can use it. Of course, it'll need to fetch extra data and parse it in order to grab message contents, etc.

this actually would look much nicer

Haha! Yay!! I shall bring this up with mr.'Neer at the con, to discuss possibilities. :)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w6ccBwnc5KU

This is why art sites use muted colors instead of over-saturated ones. If you stare at them long enough, the color receptors in your eye get stuck in a particular state and it affects other things on the page.
50% grey is ideal but boring, so most sites use some actual theme color, it's just purposefully under-saturated.

Pick one or two hues for a theme and stick with them. Having half a dozen placed randomly looks like something you'd see in mid-90's web design, a style which thankfully died off with myspace.

Opinion starts here -
Having dragoneer-themed colors is probably a bad idea. He is, to put it kindly, extremely controversial, he doesn't even technically own the site, and he's also not the mascot... that would be Fender.
Purple and orange probably ain't gonna work for most people. Colors that are 180 degrees apart on the color wheel are hard to use together in an aesthetically pleasing way, and look especially tacky if they're not toned down a bit.

/opinion

Now, on the coding and layout aspects... I'm not the one to give you detailed advice here, since I lost most interest in codemonkey stuff when I got out of highschool. Avoid javascript when possible, at least for essential site functionality. Honestly I block all scripts by default these days, unless they're absolutely critical for getting the page to work.

I will say that most of the problems the site currently has are backend and database problems, this is common knowledge at this point. Fully implementing a new gui is probably not going to be as simple as you would think, until that gets sorted.
If you do manage to get a fully functioning prototype done, then good work, you have more motivation than most of the site staff. But it may be a moot point until the bigger problems get fixed... as of now, that's on imvu.