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This is, quite frankly, amazing.

Hey Toady, I had an idea to improve the democratization of the Eternal Suggestion Voting.  You could reset the votes of all of the suggestions to zero and then randomly assign around ten to twenty Eternal Suggestions that each forum member is allowed to vote on, with a good distribution so no Suggestion has more or less that about the average number of randomly assigned forum members.

Lock forum members into their ten or so suggestions for about a week or two, post on the Blog about it, so by the end everyone has a chance to see what's going on and vote on their favorites from their personal assignment of suggestions (you could even use a ranked vote, since everyone has such a small number of things to vote on).  Also, don't show them how many votes each suggestion has just yet, to prevent follower-bias.

Then at the end of the time limit/when a good distribution of suggestion pools have been voted on, unlock it, and eliminate any suggestions with zero votes (or those ranked consistently near the bottom, if a ranked ballot is used).

This will give a lot of suggestions visibility that might be currently buried by older more powerful and well connected suggestions and revert to the current system, saving the votes accrued in the process.

Spoiler: multi-level view mockups (click to show/hide)

A video mockup of the darken-effect; also has transition animation and smoother scrolling which are separate projects.  Best mockup for lower=darker. 

My personal favorite, with a nice fog effect; the dark border at the bottom of ramps makes it easy to see which thing is on what level.  Fog effect is more compatible with lighting. 

I really like this idea.  It's way better than the void of nothingness that we get with Vanilla Dwarf Fortress.

Japa, what's the coolest thing going on in the DF community as of late?

This is great!  Now the LNP will never be lost! Also, I'm glad you chose GitHub; it's probably my favorite.

The Kickstarter is past 1 Million!  14 days to go!  Go Dreamfall go!

I wonder if it can pass the 2.44 Million mark left by the Oculus Rift to get into the Kickstarter top 10?

It's a law of nature, Toady and the words "today", "now", "soon" and "immediately" don't mix.  It'd be like trying to put a cat in water... or lave.  Whatever the outcome, it won't be pretty.