Patron's Choice #1 Results & Bonus Poll: Pixels

Patron's Choice #1 Results 

It was a knock-down drag-out fight with Badges, but the winner of the first Patron's Choice Poll is:

• Game Presentation and Filtering
  This option will add a row of icons to games that will surface things like star ratings, region, and reviews. It'll also let you filter your library by them. Definitely one we'll have some brainstorming/feedback sessions on when/if it wins.

I've got a few ideas in mind for tweaking the game layout. I'll mock those up in the future and get your feedback on which direction to head.

But before that I have a site anniversary marathon to prep for and and a polish update to do.

I don't like how locked down the Patron Poll had to be. Ideally, I'd like everyone to be able to read the entire post but only let patrons vote. I can't find any info on how voting works on public posts but presumably free members can vote on them. Let's try it out and see! 

Bonus Poll: Pixel Vibe Check

I've heard from a lot of people who miss the bits of pixel art from the old site. I'm a big fan of pixel art myself. So why is there so little in the remake?

• Low res pixel graphics mixed in with an otherwise high-res format can be tricky to do well.

• I was rushing to get the remake launched and I find tweaking the style of a design to both look good and work on a range of screen sizes to be one of the most time-consuming processes. (Doubly so when having to account for user-defined colors.)

Pixel art is a style unique to gaming, so the temptation to use it for a video game website is very strong. But there's definitely a risk of clashing styles. The platform icons, for example, require far too much detail to be done as pixel art. Would having low-res pixel icons near them look bad? Quite possibly.

So we if want to inject some pixels into the site, it could take some work. Maybe even a total rethink of the platform icons. Or maybe we could just get away with a few bits of pixel goodness here and there without changing much else.

A game presentation revamp is the right time to think about this stuff. But before I bother, I want to check what you all are thinking. Maybe there's a silent majority happy to rid of those pesky pixels or who dread the thought of a clashy pixel remaster?

How do you feel about pixel art in a website's UI and presentation? (i.e. icons next to link/buttons/headers, game information displays like region/ownership/format/ratings/etc, badges, emotes, etc.)