Changes to the "Latest" Section - Have you say!

[ENTERPRISE]

Update has now been released!

[Sir Beregond]

  On 22/01/2024 at 18:31, ENTERPRISE said:

Update has now been released!

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Looks good. One thing I noticed is threads with "solved" icon look like this. Not sure if you wanted it above the thread title, or in-line?

 

[ENTERPRISE]

  On 22/01/2024 at 21:14, Sir Beregond said:

Looks good. One thing I noticed is threads with "solved" icon look like this. Not sure if you wanted it above the thread title, or in-line?

 

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Fair point, I will see about adjusting that

[pio]

  On 22/01/2024 at 21:17, ENTERPRISE said:

Fair point, I will see about adjusting that

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Unless you've already fixed it, its in line correctly for me.  Maybe it has something to do with the table width?

 

 

By the way, the change looks pretty good so far.  I do appreciate the "OP" and "Last poster" names being right up front like that.  Very nice addition there.

[The Pook]

it isn't on a new line for me either ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ 

 

[Slaughtahouse]

Noice! 

 

In my mind, "Op" should be "OP" but now I'm just being fussy  

 

Edit: It also may be worth harmonizing the date format across all types of posts.

 

Reviews still follow the full date (E.g, January 4, 2024) whilst all other posts and threads follow (MM DD, HH:MM)

 

Edited January 22, 2024 by Slaughtahouse

[Sir Beregond]

  On 22/01/2024 at 21:40, pioneerisloud said:

Unless you've already fixed it, its in line correctly for me.  Maybe it has something to do with the table width?

 

 

By the way, the change looks pretty good so far.  I do appreciate the "OP" and "Last poster" names being right up front like that.  Very nice addition there.

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Still looks the other way to me. Could maybe be table width when viewing on my laptop?

[Slaughtahouse]

  On 22/01/2024 at 23:28, Sir Beregond said:

Still looks the other way to me. Could maybe be table width when viewing on my laptop?

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If your truncate the window, the text redirects to the next available row below. 

 

E.g., this is when I squish my chrome browser window on a 1440p monitor. 

 

 

 

[Snakecharmed]

I'm seeing a weird doubling of the OP/last lines in landscape orientation on mobile.

 

[UltraMega]

I like it. 

 

The OP and last are two different lines with the date being a third line for me on mobile, but still better to be able to see the titles. 

[ENTERPRISE]

  On 22/01/2024 at 23:42, Slaughtahouse said:

 

If your truncate the window, the text redirects to the next available row below. 

 

E.g., this is when I squish my chrome browser window on a 1440p monitor. 

 

 

 

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I will see if that can be avoided, will speak with the dev.

  On 23/01/2024 at 00:22, Snakecharmed said:

I'm seeing a weird doubling of the OP/last lines in landscape orientation on mobile.

 

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What phone is that on ?  On my phone, the columns stack vertically and not horizontally, so on mine it looks fine. Once I know the res on your phone we may be able to improve.

 

  On 22/01/2024 at 22:25, Slaughtahouse said:

Noice! 

 

In my mind, "Op" should be "OP" but now I'm just being fussy  

 

Edit: It also may be worth harmonizing the date format across all types of posts.

 

Reviews still follow the full date (E.g, January 4, 2024) whilst all other posts and threads follow (MM DD, HH:MM)

 

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That is a fair point, we might as well make it uniform :), will speak with the dev.

[damric]

oof

[ENTERPRISE]

  On 23/01/2024 at 17:56, damric said:

oof

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What phone is that on ? 

[Slaughtahouse]

  On 23/01/2024 at 17:25, ENTERPRISE said:

 

I will see if that can be avoided, will speak with the dev.

 

That is a fair point, we might as well make it uniform :), will speak with the dev.

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Nice

 

I'm not sure if this also matters and if I am just racking up your bill with the dev for all these changes, but within the threads, the "OP" is listed as "Topic Starter". 

 

Just more food for thought if you want to be more consistent across the board. Take these as suggestions, ultimately, I don't want you to spend too much time / $ on these items. 

 

 

[damric]

  On 23/01/2024 at 17:59, ENTERPRISE said:

 

What phone is that on ? 

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Galaxy A12. 

 

I'm guessing that was not supposed to be how it looks?

[Snakecharmed]

  On 23/01/2024 at 17:25, ENTERPRISE said:

What phone is that on ?  On my phone, the columns stack vertically and not horizontally, so on mine it looks fine. Once I know the res on your phone we may be able to improve.

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LG V60, 1080x2460.

[neurotix]

 

Taking up a lot of lines for me. Doesn't look very clean imo.

 

Google Pixel 6a, Firefox with Ublock Origin, Privacy Badger, CanvasBlocker, and Ghostery.

[damric]

I voted NO, but if there was a 3rd option that said something like "leave it alone. it's not broken" I would have voted that.

[ENTERPRISE]

Thanks guys, Will take a look at those alternate resolutions and see if anything can be done to improve the experience, but no promises.

[UltraMega]

  On 23/01/2024 at 17:56, damric said:

oof

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This is how it looks for me on my phone. An improvement overall, but I think it would look better if OP and Last were on one line and let that line be cut off if it gets too long. I think we will still see most of a user name if it gets cut off a little at the end. 

 

One thing I notice is that the bubble that shows the number of posts is always below the title, meaning the title could go all the way to the right edge of the column and sit above the bubble. 

 

I think the text below the title (OP, Last, Date) could all be slightly smaller too. Just like one or two font sizes down. 

 

I used some photo editing to move the text around to what I think it could be: 

 

 

This is just a quick example. Probably should have made it a little taller and left some space under the title for text that could go over into a second line, but I think you get the idea. The dead space under the user icon and over the bubble for number of threads could be better used.

Edited January 23, 2024 by UltraMega

[ENTERPRISE]

  On 23/01/2024 at 20:09, UltraMega said:

This is how it looks for me on my phone. An improvement overall, but I think it would look better if OP and Last were on one line and let that line be cut off if it gets too long. I think we will still see most of a user name if it gets cut off a little at the end. 

 

One thing I notice is that the bubble that shows the number of posts is always below the title, meaning the title could go all the way to the right edge of the column and sit above the bubble. 

 

I think the text below the title (OP, Last, Date) could all be slightly smaller too. Just like one or two font sizes down. 

 

I used some photo editing to move the text around to what I think it could be: 

 

 

This is just a quick example. Probably should have made it a little taller and left some space under the title for text that could go over into a second line, but I think you get the idea. The dead space under the user icon and over the bubble for number of threads could be better used.

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Thanks, I will make that as a suggestion to the Dev if it makes the layout easier to work with when trying to accommodate for the varying resolutions of devices. 

 

I have written up the adjustments list for the dev and will send to him tomorrow. Note that there will only be so much we can cater to and alas, I won't be able to make it look spectacular on all devices, nature of the beast when you have a tonne of different devices being used on the site

[neurotix]

I think we should just set it back the way it was- it seems the majority tend to agree and the vote should be influencing the decision

[ENTERPRISE]

  On 23/01/2024 at 22:54, neurotix said:

I think we should just set it back the way it was- it seems the majority tend to agree and the vote should be influencing the decision

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The poll was originally for whether or not we removed the Date/Time. Granted this topic evolved somewhat based on feedback and my general agreement with the ideas and different changes have been implemented. As I say, I wont be able to please all. it may be possible to have a theme switch to allow you to have the "Simpler" old version back, but this would be a consideration for the future.

[UltraMega]

  On 23/01/2024 at 22:54, neurotix said:

I think we should just set it back the way it was- it seems the majority tend to agree and the vote should be influencing the decision

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The goal here is to make titles more visible, which is really important IMO. The rest of the changes are preferential, but titles need to have enough room to be able to get the point of the title/headline across. 

[pio]

  On 23/01/2024 at 23:02, UltraMega said:

The goal here is to make titles more visible, which is really important IMO. The rest of the changes are preferential, but titles need to have enough room to be able to get the point of the title/headline across. 

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What about just keeping it simple?

 

Leave the titles part as is the way it is now, allowing upwards of 2 lines of text.

Move OP down 1 line below the title (which I believe is "as is" now).
Force "Last" to be 1 line below "OP" instead of even allowing it on the same line as OP (since sometimes it splits anyway)

Abbreviate the date to be numerical so it fits without going down yet another line.

This would force that section to stay within 3-4 lines of text at most, and it'd have everything requested visible as best as possible.

Edited January 23, 2024 by pioneerisloud