Better, than the test site, blander than the past.

[Yaar Podshipnik]

Nice that you made the old "New Messages" indicator come back on watched threads!

 

[fizzelopeguss]

We went through these exact same arguments after the site moved from vbulletin to xenforo. Massive, glorious autistic faggotry.

The brofist button caused a huge row.

 

[Taluntain]

Nothing can change the nature of the Codex.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

I already forgot how the old design looked. I am the pinnacle of evolution, capable of adapting to anything.

 

[DarkUnderlord]

We went through these exact same arguments after the site moved from vbulletin to xenforo. Massive, glorious autistic faggotry.

The brofist button caused a huge row.

Except the Codex never used vBulletin.

Pretty sure our history is phpBB 2 ->> phpBB 3 ->> XenForo ->> XenForo 2

 

[rusty_shackleford]

We identify the alts on the staff back-end all the time. It's not only limited to the mentally ill, not even remotely.

Who are my alts?

 

[Taluntain]

If I told you, I'd have to kill you.

 

[rusty_shackleford]

If I told you, I'd have to kill you.

 

[agris]

Twiglard I know you aren't 100% happy with the green online indicator and are thinking of nixing it. I have a small ocd suggestion to (maybe) make it look better. Try placing the center of the icon over the bottom-right corner of a hypothetical full-sized avatar. I know not all user avatars are full sized, but for the ones that are I think this will look better - more like something being pinned to the image, rather than just an element overlay. For the cropped avatars it likely won't make a difference.

 

[Twiglard]

Thanks agris, that does indeed look nicer.

 

[GhostCow]

I still think removing the online indicator entirely is the way to go. What's the point of it other than taking up space?

 

[Taluntain]

So that you can see when someone's online in a discussion and whether you can expect a response soon, among other things.

 

[Lord of Riva]

The difference between a regular forum user and a forum admin is primarily in the fact that admins tend to have a vision for the next X number of years and the necessary background knowledge to know what is needed and required to get there (and how). Regular forum users usually tend only to see the present moment and what came immediately before. I'm sure you realize how this can be a problem in the long term.

You misspelled augur.

 

[Grunker]

The old way of handling emojis wasn't really great, but the new one is kind of the same but worse tbh? (not talking about reactions, but adding emojis or local gifs to your post)

 

[Twiglard]

You misspelled augur.

So this is what happened to the parrot?!

 

[GhostCow]

So that you can see when someone's online in a discussion and whether you can expect a response soon, among other things.

I understand your point here, but what do you think of it aesthetically? Personally I think it's kind of ugly and there's probably not anywhere you can put it where it would look good. You're not wrong on the benefits of having it, but I don't think they outweigh the cost to aesthetics. Obviously this is a nitpick and I don't feel strongly about it, but it is kind of ugly.

 

[Taluntain]

So that you can see when someone's online in a discussion and whether you can expect a response soon, among other things.

I understand your point here, but what do you think of it aesthetically? Personally I think it's kind of ugly and there's probably not anywhere you can put it where it would look good. You're not wrong on the benefits of having it, but I don't think they outweigh the cost to aesthetics. Obviously this is a nitpick and I don't feel strongly about it, but it is kind of ugly.

The biggest problem with it is that it can't be reliably placed anywhere on the avatars themselves because they're not uniform in size or shape. Taking that into account, it would make sense to try out solutions independent of the avatars, either putting a small indicator next to the username, or maybe some kind of green underline below the avatar, etc. But at this point the priority should be getting the site front page back up, such cosmetic changes can wait.

 

[GhostCow]

I know this discussion was a while back in the thread, or maybe in a different thread, but I'm going to bring it up again while I'm thinking about it. With the quote pyramid thing, some users are butthurt that you can make quote pyramids, and other users were butthurt when the quote button only quoted the post being replied to. Would it be possible to find a middle ground? Like maybe have it limit to the last two or three posts? I hate quote pyramids, but when I'm on my 15 minute break at work and being a phonefag, editing down the quotes is too much trouble and takes too long.

Also it would be really nice if we could get page numbers on mobile like we have on the desktop site. I often times miss going to the next page because it's not obvious that I'm not on the last page at a quick glance when I'm on mobile since it's just a number and not a series of buttons.

 

[Taluntain]

Like maybe have it limit to the last two or three posts?

That's sensible and I actually proposed exactly that ages ago. DarkUnderlord insisted that he wants quote pyramids. I don't think anyone ever made a poll about this.

As for the numbers, I thought Twiglard fixed that?

 

[Twiglard]

Would it be possible to find a middle ground? Like maybe have it limit to the last two or three posts? I hate quote pyramids, but when I'm on my 15 minute break at work and being a phonefag, editing down the quotes is too much trouble and takes too long.

The problem with quote pyramids was that the old {quote} was indented very deeply with each post. So it only took a few of them till the next one was squished so much that each paragraph took lots of vertical space like

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It's no longer a problem because quotes are now indented only by 20 pixels (from 60 pixels before the move).

If we even start making changes to the backend code, the first thing to do is fixing the damn rating sort order. But we're not there yet.

As for the numbers, I thought Twiglard fixed that?

They seem to be working at the top and bottom of each page, yeah.

 

[GhostCow]

As for the numbers, I thought Twiglard fixed that?

He probably made some kind of change but they don't look the same on mobile vs desktop. On desktop they look like this:

But on mobile they look like this:

Having multiple buttons like on desktop would make it much easier to tell at a glance if I'm on the last page. The mobile version looks the same no matter what page you are on with only the number in the center changing.

 

[Twiglard]

What's your phone's resolution GhostCow?

 

[Lady Error]

There is still the problem that many avatars were designed to be aligned to the left (together with the username), not centered:

(mondblut, :Flash:, Lord_Potato, Malakal, BING XI LAO, CthuluIsSpy)

Is there a good reason why the usernames and avatars should not be aligned to the left as before?

Otherwise someone (Infinitron) will have to crop all these avatars anew, which is obviously way more work.

 

[GhostCow]

What's your phone's resolution GhostCow?

2400x1080

 

[Twiglard]

Is there a good reason why the usernames and avatars should not be aligned to the left as before?

Otherwise someone (@Infintron) will have to crop all these avatars anew, which is obviously way more work.

This can be done fully automatically.

What's your phone's resolution GhostCow?

2400x1080

It works for me as long as the phone is in the landscape orientation.

 

[Lady Error]

This can be done fully automatically.

How do you crop all these avatars automatically? They have different sizes and shapes.