Thread:Dentface/@comment-171752-20120706230410

Hi Dent. I approved your request, so I'm here to follow up. As you can see, I uploaded a new version of the background image. It's a little smaller than before, but the reason the bigger image was so pixelated is because it was evidently scaled up from the source image, which was surely much smaller. Whenever an image is scaled up, it becomes pixelated and blurry, and the larger you scale it up, the worse the effect appears. The 1024x768 image I used to make the new background is still barely pixelated, but the next size down that I found (800x600) is too small to use. Hopefully the background I uploaded is an acceptable compromise for everyone. It definitely less pixelated than the previous image.

About the things on the main page not working, I did notice that, in Chrome, sometimes everything appears correctly and sometimes things don't (slider, slideshow, polls). With Firefox, everything works for me not matter how many times I refresh. I recommed using Special:Contact/bug to report it. That goes to the Community Support Team who will hopefully get it sorted with the help of an engineer if necessary. Wikia is in the process of upgrading all wikis to MediaWiki 1.19, so that may have something to do with the weirdness.  