Hi my sisbros (title is a fine length)

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#165

I find the thread listing to be really, really difficult to work with. Itā€™s cramped (titles are too close to the rest of the data) and since it is missing the ā€˜jump to pageā€™ links you cannot easily discern between long and short threads, in turn forcing you to read every single title of every single thread to find the one you were looking for. It feels a bit like a borderless excel table right now.

Some ideas to consider:

  • Give the thread titles more breathing space. Especially horizontally.
  • Remove or greatly reduce the size of the Views column. I believe that carries almost zero relevance and takes up already precious space.
  • Remove or redesign the Category view. In King of Posters a reduction to KoP and GO might workā€¦ might. Simple icons might also work. Long, always-repeating text does not, sadly.
  • Reduce the size of the Activity column. The information for Activity is already partially provided by the thread listing itself.
  • Center or right-aligning data that is on the right side of the layout should also make things a little easier on the eyes.
  • Also combining certain data into a single column might work, similar to how Last Poster and Post time were a single column in the old forum.

Hit me up on Steam if you want to discuss some changes in detail. Or where do yaā€™ll chat these days?

Ohh, and I love the way you can browse and edit a post at the same time. Awesome.

#166

Yeah, thatā€™s the one thing that still feels unfinished to me because botagel made some changes to the discourse defaults that heā€™s not quite completed. To be honest though I pretty much just use the new and unread toggles at the top of the FrontPage to browse now.

Again, if you have suggestions, I strongly encourage you to prototype the CSS yourself or suggest existing discourse plugins. I for one am not looking at this in terms of ā€œbuildingā€ a new site; itā€™s a migration to a new platform which weā€™re tweaking as we like.

Speaking of which, the domain move and locking the old forum are still coming.

#167

Is there a way that the top pinned album topic in the axe could not have a subtitle that goes on for half a paragraph? For whatever reason it irks me.

Also am I still supposed to get a pop up just about every time I try to reply to something or an I internetting wrong again?

#168

Iā€™d be okay with deleting the pinned topics, or editing them to reflect SB rules rather than the stock stuff. Anyone want to have a crack at that?

#169

I did and then they seemed to dissapear!

#170

Trying to fix this right now.

I think it might be due to it being the first topic (which should normally be the one with the category description.

Iā€™m stumped. Canā€™t rearrage topics by hand, and thheir order doesnā€™t seem to be effected by postdate or pin date. Tried changing the intro. Tried changing the comment attached to the pinning action. :boh:

I guess somehow related to activity itā€™s etting treated at the most important axe topic?? :boh:

Thought setting the ā€˜post excerpt maxlengthā€™ to not 300 would help but I guess not ! ! ! ! ! ! ! :boh:

#171

So was rotating avatars ever determined to be possible, like on ye olde SB? Or are we just stuck having to manually change them?

#172

that wonā€™t be that hard to implement, probably. but I donā€™t think itā€™s supported out of the box.

#173

Well, we used to achieve it by using an image rotator site as the URL for our avatar image.

So all we would need is for Discourse to have an option to link to offsite pics for your avatar.

That seems do-able right?

I mean, not by me of courseā€¦

#174

The category names are showing up because each of the ā€œmain categoriesā€ (KoP, etc.) have sub-categories, so Discourse displays the full category name for each thread. Iā€™m trying to get it to hide the dumb thing when youā€™re ā€œinā€ the same category, so itā€™ll only show category labels for topics in ā€œsubforums,ā€ but itā€™s proving obnoxious to implement. Once thatā€™s managed, the topic names can expand into that space.

We can definitely shove some of the other fields into single columns. Heck, compared to some of the other fun, itā€™ll be downright simple.

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#175

This is a complicated new world.

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#176

Hiiiii itā€™s ya boy Iggy Poop <3

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#177

I canā€™t believe you didnā€™t come to my show

#178

whaaaat
shit iā€™m sorry! Iā€™ll come to the next oneā€¦
How was it?

#179

If you miss the next one you will be banned FYI.

#180

Firm but fair :wink:

#181

oh it was crap lol. next one will be better

@The_Blueberry_Hill you gotta come when we play MLB

#182

Of course!

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#183

Every time I see this thread I get a little sad it doesnā€™t say SiBlings

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#184

SBlngs

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