UPDATE: PROFILE BACKGROUNDS
Your profile page no longer has to look like everyone else's. Pick a background and the whole page changes for anyone who visits you, not just a panel on it. Fifteen to choose from, four of which are playable arcade scenes that actually run.
HOW IT WORKS
THE STANDARD SET
Eleven backgrounds, all built from pure CSS. No images are loaded and nothing runs in the background, so they cost you nothing to display.
THE ARCADE SET
Four of them are not patterns at all. They are drawn frame by frame and genuinely play out behind your profile.
GETTING ACCESS
WORTH KNOWING
Your profile page no longer has to look like everyone else's. Pick a background and the whole page changes for anyone who visits you, not just a panel on it. Fifteen to choose from, four of which are playable arcade scenes that actually run.
HOW IT WORKS
- Open your own profile and hit Background, next to Edit Profile Banner.
- Everyone sees it. Whoever lands on your profile gets your background across the entire page. Leave the page and the board looks normal again.
- Pick an accent colour. Seven of them, and they recolour whichever background you have chosen. Green, cyan, blue, violet, amber, crimson and mono.
- Change it as often as you like. Nothing is locked in once it is set.
THE STANDARD SET
Eleven backgrounds, all built from pure CSS. No images are loaded and nothing runs in the background, so they cost you nothing to display.
- Grid and Blueprint for the clean technical look.
- Hex Mesh, Carbon and Scanlines for texture.
- Circuit, drawn as real traces and solder pads.
- Topographic, contour lines like a map.
- CRT, scanlines with a rolling bar and a vignette.
- Aurora and Nebula if you want soft light rather than pattern. Nebula is a drifting starfield.
- Void for near black with a slow breathing glow.
THE ARCADE SET
Four of them are not patterns at all. They are drawn frame by frame and genuinely play out behind your profile.
- Invaders. A formation marches across and drops down, your cannon shoots back, and the ones it hits explode. The fewer left alive, the faster the rest advance, exactly as it should be.
- Outrun. A sliced sun on the horizon and a neon grid rolling toward you.
- Matrix. Code rain, every column falling at its own speed with a bright leading character.
- Pong. The ball has real physics and the paddles actually track it. Hit near the edge of a paddle and the angle changes, so no two rallies are the same.
GETTING ACCESS
- Vault+ Full includes the standard set. Nothing to buy, it is simply there.
- No Vault+? Unlock the standard set for 200 Shards. That one is permanent and stays yours even if an upgrade later expires.
- Arcade backgrounds are 500 Shards each, bought one at a time, and they are Shards only. Vault+ does not include them.
- Every purchase is permanent and shows up in your Shards transaction log.
- You confirm before anything is spent. Nothing is deducted on a stray click.
WORTH KNOWING
- They stop when you are not looking. The animation pauses once the profile scrolls out of view or you switch tabs, so it is not burning your battery in the background.
- Reduced motion is respected. If your system has animations turned off, you get a still frame instead.
- No images, no extra loading. Everything is drawn by your browser, so nothing is downloaded to show it.