in the vein of entry of the day: what if there was a "palette of the day" box on the site's homepage? there could be a list of featured palettes (curated for beauty & legibility) which the site would cycle through.

possible extra detail: the palette currently being showcased could display as the site's palette to guest users.

random palette button in user settings that flashbangs you with a different palette every time you go to a new page

I think this would require someone to comb through a bunch of users' palettes manually to determine what is "beautiful" to them? Since there's no real way to favorite people's palettes the way there is with entries that would indicate to the site what a "good/well acclaimed palette" is. Even assuming the person who's picking the palettes has good taste, that's a lot of work to go hunting for palettes, unless you appointed multiple people, at which point the likelihood for poor taste picks increases unless you agree as a group, and now it's turned into a whole extra human process that would take a noticeable amount of energy from people.

Or, just have it pick a random one and then the palette of the day can be anything from perfection to the most painful thing imaginable. I also struggle to see how you would showcase said palette of the day without some form of overwriting the home page, so you'd really want to make sure it's actually a good palette to ensure that first-time visitors don't get turned off of the site by something peculiar.

Fun-sounding in concept, but pretty painful-sounding in execution.

what i was getting at with the "featured palettes list" was that it would be internal and start again from the top once completed. users wouldn't see the list, they'd just see whichever palette is featured today.

as for how to populate the list - can just be the same as entry of the day, that is patrons get to submit their requests in the patrons channel & puke can veto any he doesn't like. i for one have seen dozens of user palettes that i would happily submit for featurement.

vav is the one and only person to ask how good a palette is xD

That is a fun idea, but for the guest user part, I am not sure. UX can become very bad if the selected palette is a troll on, bad or not contrasted enough... I think as guest users can't activate/disable a feature like this, it should me something to save for botbrs accounts. Or, if there is a way to select only from "good" palettes, but I also feel guest may not like coming back to a website that changes everyday.