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Alas, FanFest 2020 was cancelled due to the Coronavirus, so much of my plans were shelved. The Triglavian Invasion was too fun to pass up, though, so I opted to keep working on it, as an April Fool's gag.

==Red Dot==

Very little was actually planned for the red dot. I had the idea, and had it implemented about 5 hours later. Early in 2020, CCP Games added a "Feature" that puts a red dot on your inventory for new items. Unfortunately it was a little over-zealous, and put red dots on darn near everything, whether it was a new item or not. From this, several red-dot memes were born across the EVE Playerbase.

While grocery shopping with my wife and discussing the red dot, the idea hit me to do something for it on the wiki... but it was hard to come up with exactly WHAT to do, until she suggested making the cursor a red dot. My original idea was to make it always be a red dot ''until'' you hovered a link, but in testing this turned out to be almost impossible to click on a link, as it was difficult to determine where on the 'cursor' to point from. Flipping it to red dot ONLY on links was much more effective, however, and that allowed me to open it up to affect all pages on the wiki.

I implemented this meme with no warning or approval from the upper E-Uni management - better to ask for forgiveness than permission, right? But Laura (CEO) approved once she saw it, so all was well. I did understand it would be controversial, so I decided to only keep it in place for 48hrs. During that time, many comments were made in many different EVE Player community areas, indicating the annoyance level was 'just about right' to be fun, but not something to keep around forever. It was, as planned, removed after 48 hours.

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 Alas, FanFest 2020 was cancelled due to the Coronavirus, so much of my plans were shelved. The Triglavian Invasion was too fun to pass up, though, so I opted to keep working on it, as an April Fool's gag.
+==Red Dot==
+Very little was actually planned for the red dot. I had the idea, and had it implemented about 5 hours later. Early in 2020, CCP Games added a "Feature" that puts a red dot on your inventory for new items. Unfortunately it was a little over-zealous, and put red dots on darn near everything, whether it was a new item or not. From this, several red-dot memes were born across the EVE Playerbase.
+While grocery shopping with my wife and discussing the red dot, the idea hit me to do something for it on the wiki... but it was hard to come up with exactly WHAT to do, until she suggested making the cursor a red dot. My original idea was to make it always be a red dot ''until'' you hovered a link, but in testing this turned out to be almost impossible to click on a link, as it was difficult to determine where on the 'cursor' to point from. Flipping it to red dot ONLY on links was much more effective, however, and that allowed me to open it up to affect all pages on the wiki.
+I implemented this meme with no warning or approval from the upper E-Uni management - better to ask for forgiveness than permission, right? But Laura (CEO) approved once she saw it, so all was well. I did understand it would be controversial, so I decided to only keep it in place for 48hrs. During that time, many comments were made in many different EVE Player community areas, indicating the annoyance level was 'just about right' to be fun, but not something to keep around forever. It was, as planned, removed after 48 hours.