Proposal Make Ribbons more prominent

[lax]

Let's take a look here:

How many ribbons do you think Pohjis has? 2?

The answer

There were already threads made before to implement changes here and here, but I feel like more could be done? Ribbons are essentially equivalent to each tier's OST as an invitational that rewards you for grinding one or more specific tiers for an entire year then locking in and winning the chip at the end. Pretty major feat that I don't feel like gets the respect it deserves

My suggestions:
1. Return color to the ribbons
Being the champion of a tier for an entire year's worth of work shouldn't just be faded. These are basically individual trophies for each tier and should be treated to a higher level

2. Separate each ribbon out individually

Ribbon HoF

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https://www.smogon.com/forums/threads/circuit-hall-of-fame.3719745/

Not that many people have multiple ribbons with Xiri and obv Pohjis being the major exception. It's pretty damn impressive to have this level of consistency and I think laying it out so people can see how impressive it is makes a lotta sense to me. There's the issue of it taking up too much of your badgeset, but that surely is not a real problem and there aren't that many people with multiples anyways. I'm pretty sure it only expands Finch's badgeset a bit more, lol.

Lmk

 

[a fairy]

FWIW, WRT 2, it's being actively looked at and worked on. There are Admin Control Panel-level implementation limitations that have prevented us from implementing 2 basically directly as described. TDs are looking at proposing a way around it in order to fix, just two weeks or so ago we actively had a conversation about what we'd want it to look like (Pohjis 8 ribbons vs 10, for example) and then discussing it with the community before bringing our request to technical folk like chaos with a specific "we need XYZ changes to the tools we have access to in order to accomplish an improvement for the community" list of requests that would allow us to improve ribbons by basically bypassing those ACP limitations.

Major steps already have happened towards those successes in the last few months that have made the conversation possible to happen at all, in the past those limitations would've ended any possibility of this conversation happen. Very excited to see what folks think about stuff in this thread as it can help give us direction as to improving postbits. I am hopeful!

 

[Bice]

on the visual side, i think it'd be cool if badges, trophies, and ribbons had different colored borders. badges can keep their current blue, ribbons could get a dark gold, and trophies like a deep red or maroon. also seconding ribbons getting their color back
e: very hack-dash visual mockup, using Finchinator's set

mockup