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This Message Board is becoming to agressive. Is that possible that even if a congratulate with my friend and partner in public can be a problem?

Jesh, I don't understand why this can disturb you that much. Johanne is one of the most important contributors of the skins cummunity ever, in any way you can imagine to see, skinningand theming for dozens of different apps, hellping, designing, web designning, codding, with a personal portfolium that can cause envy to great skinners.

When on day she gots a very impressive number of dlls, for sure a great record , you run to point a bunch defects on her skin?

I'm afraid to say that, but you are wrong! The amount of downloads she recieved during the last hours are in her skins to prove you that.

As many people around here knows, I'm not a XP fan, because I don't like to see OS clones, but those skins were originally made by her and I am a testemony of that, I was on her side all the time during it's build.

I'm being around the skins cenarium during the last 2 years and I chalange anybody here to say that I ever made a bad comment on one single
skin, even if I hate it, I just add a comment if I think I a can put the person up, so please let us enjoy this special happy moment and if you have nothing good to say and have some extra time, go spend some time skinning, you will see, it's fun!

no energy tonight for this thread but wanted to say congrats Alex!!!

I remember being happy when I got just 1 download on my stats page at skinz.org you managed to make 8000 ppl push the d/l button in just one day!!! wow!

does not surprise me really cuz you're a great skinner! you go girl!

Well. I for one am thrilled with the skins Alexandrie posted yesterday. I am also enjoying the ones that are coming with the WB 3 beta.

I agree with treetog that all the downloads yesterday prove that there are *alot* of people that love them too.

Great job Alexandrie, thanks for sharing!

Nothing is easy anymore... this thread is a perfect example of all the extra 'alertness' people are feeling. Perspective is just going to be more difficult to achieve as the times get stranger... don't be 'alert', just be awake...

and congratulations O' Queen of the Site! You always do great Alex and I would be surprised if any skin you did was not an instant winner.

Great Pros, To a Great Lady

Congrads, Jo!

treetog numbers/quantities of skins dont make a great skinner please. If that was the case Kodman from skinz.org would be sitting on mount Olympus smiling down on us all. Not sure if anyone remembers Kodman (i know Shoggot does haha).

You know what aggravates me i think. I'm sick of these OS ports and variants being heralded as art. I'm sick of people coloring over other people's stuff and calling it there own. Thats basically all i see here. Winxp this and WinXp that. MAC this and Mac that. Yeh they can be cool. But give me a break. This whole side of the community is nothing but a port rips and revamps in the last 4-5 months. How many win xp icon sets are there. Thank god for icon sets like Nitrogen and Yttrium. Real art inspired by the guys head instead of some apple of MS artist.

Time to start a revolution/evolution here. Time for original art to come back in style and to ditch these lame OS rips. Hey they can be cool when they are few and far between but this is getting ridiculous. I'm keeping some points of views to myself as to not start some shit but this site doesnt seem to be flourishing all that many original artists and its a shame when i know these same OS port kings and queens could be putting out some kick ass stuff.

And yeh brad of course the counts growing higher... its the featured skin.

yes its true. And i can only hope after the launch that we start seeing originality come back and the ports go. I was talking to someone who said in the old days they would call those "rips". Not singling out alexandrie on that last statement. In general i mean.

craeonics also note that I tend to lack tact when needed

Ditto FIrestorm!

Making other color vatiations is a bonnus to users from the skinner.
Doing that he is giving more from him then the regular ones and in this particular case, I must say that all colors are gorgeous.

To the guy from Skins Factory : What are your intentions by continuously arguing on originality of the work of Alexandrie's work? Treetog started this thread so all skinners could rejoice in her success and then you get in and keep repeating post after post that you don't see originality in her work. What's your purpose? You argued one time, isn't that enough? Why keep hammering your point? You seem to take this whole thing to a personal level and I find it sad because I believe its useless to argue on such point in a community driven by passion and respect of each other.

Johanne: All your work is beautifully crafted and deserves all the accolades it receives. I don't think your originality can be questioned when you look at your work as an entire collection, and not singling out specific pieces.
Congratulations on the new download record, if anyone deserves it, YOU do.