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will we get more Leela puzzles? Specifically some shippy ones?

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If you did that already, then sorry for the delay. Maybe you should send it again, because sometimes things do get mislaid.

The TLZ mail-accounts get a ton of worm/vira/hacker-mails. A few days ago I even got an email with the word "Futurama" in the subject line and the dispatch address, yet it was one of those badly concealed ZIP-worms.

1. Leela Zone
2. CGEF
3. Farnsworth.tk

I love that they have regular updates with lots of content.

Also the widescreen design is awsome for me since I'm a 1280x1024 user.

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Originally posted by Faris:
I give the site 10/10
I love the daily updates. I've never seen anything like it.

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the widescreen design is awsome for me since I'm a 1280x1024 user.

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...and of course, I read this right after I replace it with a non-widescreen one! Poo. Oh well, I guess the next layout will be a widescreen one again...

1) Get more non-Leela fan stuff for the site, because even when we _say_ every other update that we take non-Leela fanart, fanfiction, wallpapers and fanwhatever, we STILL get a vast majority of Leela-only content.

2) Attract more people that don't care about Leela, because the site has a bunch of non-Leela content that gets a bit overlooked because of the Leela-centricness of the title and layout.

Goal 1 is a priority; goal 2 could be a nice side-effect.

The original idea was to simply change the name of the site, but we figured we'd have visitors rioting if we just did that. So we added a subtitle, slogan, or whatever you want to call it. If people don't get the idea and we STILL get just floods of Leela-only content, I may just have to register www.futuramaondrugs.com....

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Originally posted by Venus:
:: sob :: They de-Leelad the Leela Zone!

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To be honest, The Leela Zone has been "de-Leelaed" (must look up that word in the Oxford English Dictionary ) for some time, considering that we have been accepting non-Leela work for some years. The site will still cater for Leela fans, but we felt that we needed to emphasise that we're not a Leela-only site and, as Leo has said, take any Futurama-related stuff.

I can understand you wanting to include more non-Leela stuff, especially now the show's been cancelled and the fan contributions will inevitably start to thin out, but if the current layout's anything to go by TLZ's in serious danger of losing it's identity and becoming just another Futurama site.

Congrats for 1Million visitors, but I have to agree with PCC and the others. The Leela Zone was unique with its Leela-theme and now, although it isn't a bad layout, it looks like one out of the huge amount of Futurama Sites.

The issue is that we are trying to branch out, and although we've been doing that for some years now, we still get emails from people asking if we'd accept non-Leela work, which we do. I can understand the confusion, seeing that the site is called The Leela Zone, so we thought we'd try to make it less subtle for our casual visitor and the non-visitor that dislikes/hates/loathes/despises Leela but doesn't realise that we don't just cater for her fans but cater for all the characters' fans.

I don't think the site stood out just because it was called The Leela Zone or that it centred on Leela, I feel it stood out due to various other factors that I mention above. Still, maybe we're wrong and will bomb, but we'll just have to see if that's the case or not.

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Well, I want the old layout back. Please change it back or make the thing where you can use both. Read my comment on the TLZ website.

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We read your comment there, here, and in the mail. We already know Faris Hates FOD, so don't worry.

As for changing the layout back, it's been up for one day. Let us finish collection opinions before we decide what to do. You surely suffered worse layouts at my hands, so you can wait a few days, don't you think?

Considering the current feedback, it's unlikely the slogan "Futurama On Drugs" will stay -- more because of the people who took it the wrong way (thinking it was actual drug endorsement) than anything else. We're still going to add another slogan in the next layout, as soon as I think of one. 'The Futurama Insane Asylum' looks good for me...

As for the next layout:
- Widescreen look: most likely.
- Other characters besides Leela: yep.
- FOD slogan: not likely.
- Non-Leela content: definitely staying.
- Lots of new hatemail: highly probable.

Several people complained that the FOD slogan was more visible on the layout than the title of the site itself. Well, you KNOW what site you're visiting, after all, so I don't see what the big problem is -- we've had several layout that didn't say "The Leela Zone" at all. I think I'll just include the acronym "TLZ" in the next layout and leave the name out completely... always good to see so much hatemail in one day.

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Originally posted by Leandro:
As for the next layout:
- Widescreen look: most likely.
- Other characters besides Leela: yep.
- FOD slogan: not likely.
- Non-Leela content: definitely staying.
- Lots of new hatemail: highly probable.

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Awsome. I've got great expectations on that one. Keep up the hard and ungrateful work

Anyway, as Leo has said above, due to taking things too literally by some, we are probably going to remove the Futurama on Drugs logo and replace it with either Futurama Insane Asylum or Futurama Communist Utopia.