Look, I'm trying to be polite here but I'm running out of ways to say this. The changes you want are simply not going to happen.
Your example there is literally adding a span to an existing link. Already that requires code edits but let's pretend for a second that it doesn't. What will doing that accomplish? It doesn't magically make the link animated. And even if it did, how will adding a 3 second animation to the word PM improve the user experience in any way?
Color-wise, the themes we have are the themes we're sticking with for the time being. The colors were chosen as they represent the different areas of the network and have been in use for years. On top of that, it really doesn't make sense to devote any significant time to re-skinning the forum when we'll have to do it all over again come MyBB 2.0.
Your example there is literally adding a span to an existing link. Already that requires code edits but let's pretend for a second that it doesn't. What will doing that accomplish? It doesn't magically make the link animated. And even if it did, how will adding a 3 second animation to the word PM improve the user experience in any way?
Color-wise, the themes we have are the themes we're sticking with for the time being. The colors were chosen as they represent the different areas of the network and have been in use for years. On top of that, it really doesn't make sense to devote any significant time to re-skinning the forum when we'll have to do it all over again come MyBB 2.0.