Stage48 Feedback & Suggestions VI

Are there no more global stickies? Or are there just none implemented right now?

 

From a useability point of view, I find the messageMeta div (containing the author (duplicated info!), when posted, report etc. links) positioning distracting for short posts as it sits in the middle of the post, and it also catches the eye when trying to skim down a page because part of it is left-aligned.

A few suggestions:
1. remove author part! that info is already to the left of post
2. move post time and report links over to the right with the like/reply links either on same line or above them with a line break, or
3. if you want to keep messageMeta as it is, maybe put it above the messageContent div or position it at the bottom of the post - in either case this moves it nearer the split between posts and hopefully doesn't catch the eye as much when skimming down a page.

 

no chat room??

 

i remember that last forum had different shade on each post to not tire the eyes of the viewer

Example : the first post is bright, the following post is a little bit darker, then the other one is bright again (so you can differentiate the post more easily)

you think you can put it back?

thanks in advance

 

I got some problem when I uploaded files. They placed themselves at the top before my text, I couldn't choose the place.

 

(thank you) ah sorry about that, it was meant in a non-serious manner but i guess i should have thought about how it could be taken haha >...<

 

There's a point the limit was at 20 (by default). We got twenty posts showing on one page and by setting the images-per-post limit to a hundred we could be looking at two thousand thumbnails on a single page (in the galleries for example). I don't think there's a downside to making multiple posts or more posts than before to get all one's pictures posted.

In any case we're looking at the needs of our members and are going to adjust the forum accordingly in the next few weeks.

 

It seems that the software doesn't support [table] tags right now. Would it be possible to add support for these tags, or implement some other way to create tables?

Also a suggestion for the design: how about styling unread posts differently? Like putting a border around them or something. Right not the only thing showing that a post hasn't been read is the small "New" label to the right, which is easy to miss.

And finally: would it be possible to change the background color of the stickied threads in the thread list? This way it would be easier to tell stickied and non-stickied threads apart.

 

I wonder what is actually happened when the forum down for two times just now...

Spoiler: Forum down just now

Anyway, is this actually normal??

I mean it is really placed like that? (the profile square box becomes get out of the bottom?)
I'm using laptop with small screen anyway (1024 x 600 px)

 

Thanks for noticing this. And I have actually tried all your suggestion and have tested them.
It's actually a good place where it's at right now.. Putting it at the right just kinda catches your eye more, since most of the signatures are left aligned and it's the only thing at the right alignment.
Putting it also in the bottom most of the messageContent div also catches your eye more, because if the message is shorter and has a short signature, it mostly looks like it has 3 separate containers.
I've just took out the author part, since that's the most reasonable to make us both happy. yey!

I've put it back in, but currently I have set the default to a light gray and it's other counter part as white. Won't really notice the difference if you have a bright monitor, but it's there.
I don't want to use a darker gray than what I've used before since it'll be almost the same as the avatar holder.

Yes. It's actually styled like that

 

I know this might just be me having bad eyes, but I think it is quite hard to notice links since they are almost the same gray color as the rest of the text. Using a BBcode color doesn't change the color either on links at least.

Also, is it possible to add a color selector to the Rich Text Editor and re-add some very commonly used BBcode functions when you use BBcode like it used to be?

EDIT: And yay! I see we got a way to display the birthday banner still!

 

The color picker on the rich text editor is the 4th icon from left to right. The letter A with a line underneath.

 

I know that is what I did. But what I tried to do were:

Code:

[color=blue][url](Link here)[/url][/color]

I didn't see it, thanks for pointing out!

 

Aha, I guess it's probably because I'm used to turning sigs off on forums I read, as they tend to double the length of the page!
Without signatures enabled, it's more noticeable. Anyway, fair enough, I understand it's gonna be difficult to cover all possible cases and am glad you gave it consideration.

 

I think the Iwata Karen birthday thread needs to be moved to 'Forum Projects'.

 

Sorry to be persistent, but could I convince you to reconsider this? When it's a long post or the user has a signature, that line with the date looks fine. But on short posts without any signature (or if you have signatures turned off like me) that line gets placed smack in the middle of the post, which looks weird.




I understand that your intention is to make that date line not too eye-catching, but as it is right now it actually stands out more, at least for me.

 

Quick suggestion, disabling signatures in galleries like before? Otherwise it looks like someone has uploaded the same picture over and over into the gallery threads as there is no text to break it up.