Mixit themes and themes from The Style Contest

[chasethestars]

We just released Mixit, which is really the same as Expressive except for one thing - while Expressive is ported-over Vox themes, Mixit has themes that are specific to LJ, that will only be available on LJ. We chose the name Mixit because it will be a mix of various layouts (some will be cute, some will be dark, some will be clean, etc. etc

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[chasethestars]

Poe was created, and put into Expressive on the test server to make sure the layout displayed correctly, etc. It wasn't planned to go out with the Expressive themes that went out two weeks ago, but it slipped through (it just really wanted to be used!).

When Poe was being created, the idea always was that Expressive was for Vox themes and that LJ specific themes using the same structure would be called something else (Mixit). (Poe was created before Mixit was, which is why it was under Expressive for testing)

Poe was renamed to Nevermore (for a reason completely unrelated to it being released in Expressive), and that's why there's Nevermore in Mixit, and Poe in Expressive (which will be removed). So this brings us back to where we started: Expressive = from Vox, Mixit = LJ only. Now to get people to stop calling it Poe. (or to rename it back to Poe, but by then there will be people saying Nevermore..)

uniquewonders, in this case, account levels are set per theme, not to the layout. New themes that will be added to Expressive in the future could be availble to all users, and themes that will be added to Mixit could be restricted to Plus or Paid. But for now, that's correct that Mixit is for all users and Expressive is Plus/Paid.

[ex_uniquewo]

"New themes that will be added to Expressive in the future could be availble to all users, and themes that will be added to Mixit could be restricted to Plus or Paid."

Cool! And thanks for the explanation. :)

[ex_uniquewo]

BTW, s2mixit or s2expressive? Same question for Style Contest and s2bloggish.

[chasethestars]

this is what I told someone in lj_releases, but if someone wants to create another community and manage it, they're more than welcome to. There's pros and cons to having more than one community for each layout(s). For example, if there's just one community, everyone will know which one to go to, but if there's more than one, each one would have less requests to help with (though there'd likely be repeats, but even with just one, there's still repeats).

btw, thanks for explainittome. It's really helpful :)

[ex_uniquewo]

Makes sense. The biggest concern is Mixit users finding s2expressive, imo.

Hee! Thank you! Glad you think so.

[chasethestars]

hm. s2mixit with a "go to s2expressive" redirect message? Then if it ever needs to be used, the comm has already been created!

[ex_uniquewo]

Very good idea, me thinks.