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The New Forum Requests/Suggestions Thread:

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vypek

vypek

Member
Oct 25, 2017
12,561
Oh glad people already posted about the speed issue. Was wondering if it was just something on my end from changes to my PC recently or everyone.
 
Grigorig

Grigorig

Member
Oct 30, 2017
696
You know I really think it's a good idea to have more transparency re: thread title changes. It's not uncommon to have a thread start a certain way and then completely u-turn after a later title change (cough Bryan Cranston thread cough) and anyone late to the party has to read through a ton of meta topic to find out what the hell is going on.
 
HStallion

HStallion

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
62,262
I'm sure this has been brought up multiple times in this thread and others but can we make a new designation or class of "watched" threads? There should be a category for threads that we've just clicked on once or a couple of times to read and then there should be a separate and distinct grouping for threads we actually "subscribe" to. For someone who clicks on a lot of threads I often have trouble following the threads I specifically "watched" even with notifications on.
 
empty feat

empty feat

Member
Oct 29, 2017
1,947
Yorkshire, UK
Sorry if this has been brought up already but the ability to increase the size of an image with another click would be great, especially for quoted images on mobile they're just unreadable.

Also more of an fyi as it doesn't particularly bother me, but the notification for a new alert on mobile is just a blank white box that obscures the screen for a little while (chrome browser).

Love the layout and dark theme :)
 
Qwerty Keyboard

Qwerty Keyboard

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,685
Has there been a change in design that means all replies are the same colour instead of alternating?
They all appear grey now and I swear it used to be grey / white / grey for alternate posts in a thread.
 
Tedesco!

Tedesco!

Drive-in Mutant
Member
Oct 30, 2017
689
I apologize if this has been asked before, but does anyone know of a forum app? I know the last site had an app that was mobile friendly. I didn't know if there were plans to do something similar with this site.
 
CKOHLER

CKOHLER

Member
Oct 25, 2017
8,566
There's a serious lack of white space all over the place, imo. The fonts are tiny too. To at least compensate for the former, I've created a couple of CSS rules for Stylebot to increase the amount of breathable space in the thread lists making them easier to read and have elements line up better.

Original appearance:
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Updated CSS:
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The code also fixes the odd line-spacing on thread titles where there is more space between the title lines than between the title and subtitle:

Original appearance:
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Updated CSS:
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Here's the code:
Code: 
/* increase white space in thread lists */

.discussionListItem .listBlock.main {
    padding: 5px;
}

.LoggedIn .discussionListItem .titleText {
    padding-left: 30px;
}

/* make thread titles have correct line-height */

.discussionListItem .title {
    line-height: normal;
    padding-bottom: 5px;
}

@media  (max-width: 610px) {
  .Responsive .discussionListItem .listBlock.stats {
    padding-left: 10px;
    margin-top: -20px;
  }
  .Responsive.LoggedIn .discussionListItem .listBlock.stats {
    padding-left: 35px;
  }
}

Overall, there seems to be an over-emphesis on reducing wasted screen realestate but it comes at the cost of making the overall design look too busy and difficult to read. Just my opinion, but I would never use 14 or less point font in this day and age.
 
FrakEarth

FrakEarth

Member
Oct 25, 2017
3,277
Liverpool, UK
I was thinking about starting a thread for developers and 3D artists, and those wishing to learn 3D modelling in order to show off their work and work in progress.. I'm only learning myself

Could we perhaps get Sketchfab support for the Media button?

Sketchfab URLs take the form:
Code: 
https://sketchfab.com/models/bda2c373806747a28812c9d88bf55dfa

Where the unique code in question is:
Code: 
bda2c373806747a28812c9d88bf55dfa

A Regex for capturing the Model Code is:
Code: 
/^(?:http[s]?:\/\/)?sketchfab.com\/models\/(.*)$/g

I'm not sure whether or not you'd need that... I'm guessing you could use it to translate the URL to BBCode like:
Code: 
[sketchfab]CODE HERE[/sketchfab]

Sketchfab provide an endpoint for grabbing JSON which gives you everything you'd need to build an iframe with thumbnail. The thumbnail transforms to the 3D viewer when clicked:

https://sketchfab.com/oembed?url=https://sketchfab.com/models/bda2c373806747a28812c9d88bf55dfa

If you're doing server side processing to transform media URLs for YouTube and Twitter etc and you wanted to do similar for this, CURL or something similar should be fine as normal GET requests bring back the data. On the client-side - they're responding with "access-control-allow-origin: *" - so you can do Ajax requests across domains just fine:

Code: 
$.ajax({
    url: 'https://sketchfab.com/oembed?url=https://sketchfab.com/models/dGUrytaktlDeNudCEGKk31oTJY',
    headers: { 'Accept' : 'application/json' },
    success: function(data) {
        // html for embed is in data.html
    },
    error: function(data) {
        // handle failed request here
    }
});

If you want to make it congruent with @media css break points / views for mobile devices, you can pass along a maxwidth parameter and the returned html is formed correctly, generating the right sized thumbnail / media player. You'd just change the request URL to something like:

Code: 
https://sketchfab.com/oembed?url=https://sketchfab.com/models/dGUrytaktlDeNudCEGKk31oTJY&maxwidth=200

I think this would be a really cool addition, and help induct even more gamers and hobbyists in to this big ol' industry - maybe get them creating the ResetEra content of the future!

Thoughts anyone?
 

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User requested account closure
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CKOHLER said:
There's a serious lack of white space all over the place, imo. The fonts are tiny too. To at least compensate for the former, I've created a couple of CSS rules for Stylebot to increase the amount of breathable space in the thread lists making them easier to read and have elements line up better.

Original appearance:
Ig2UeWP.png


Updated CSS:
vN1OXzJ.png


The code also fixes the odd line-spacing on thread titles where there is more space between the title lines than between the title and subtitle:

Original appearance:
oBCtN22.png


Updated CSS:
nRG2nGJ.png


Here's the code:
Code: 
/* increase white space in thread lists */

.discussionListItem .listBlock.main {
    padding: 5px;
}

.LoggedIn .discussionListItem .titleText {
    padding-left: 30px;
}

/* make thread titles have correct line-height */

.discussionListItem .title {
    line-height: normal;
    padding-bottom: 5px;
}

@media  (max-width: 610px) {
  .Responsive .discussionListItem .listBlock.stats {
    padding-left: 10px;
    margin-top: -20px;
  }
  .Responsive.LoggedIn .discussionListItem .listBlock.stats {
    padding-left: 35px;
  }
}

Overall, there seems to be an over-emphesis on reducing wasted screen realestate but it comes at the cost of making the overall design look too busy and difficult to read. Just my opinion, but I would never use 14 or less point font in this day and age.
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I like all of this, great stuff!
 
mac

mac

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
1,308
When you get a warning you aren't alerted about it. I think someone might get a warning and then do the same thing again and get banned because they didn't know they were warned about it.
 
mac

mac

Banned
Oct 25, 2017
1,308
The way quotes are cut off after 5 lines is terrible. I think we should trust that members here are quoting valuable information.
 
OS_

OS_

Member
Oct 27, 2017
89
Brisbane, Australia
The time stamp directly under the body text on the left needs to be moved. It's visual noise that interrupts how your eye tracks content.

It should be moved into the username/avatar section or all the way over on the right-hand side.

It's useful information, but it shouldn't interrupt the flow from one post to the next.
 
DavidDesu

DavidDesu

Banned
Oct 29, 2017
5,718
Glasgow, Scotland
Strange issue on my iPad (safari), minor but niggling issue..

Whenever I go to a new page here and I scroll up or down there's some left/right movement happening sometimes. iOS has always done a good job of "locking" the direction of scrolling to either horizontal or vertical, I'm sure there's a term for it. If I pinch to zoom out just a little and let it ounce back this issue fixes itself for that page but it keeps reoccurring. No idea if it's something you can code a fix for in the page or if it's iOS doing this independently. *shrugs* As I say it's only a tiny minor annoyance!
 
Vautrin

Vautrin

Banned
Oct 27, 2017
936
im sure this has been addressed, but is there any chance of removing the name of the poster and the time stamp from underneath the thread title and moving it off to the side? I thought I would get used to this but it still looks cluttered to me/unappealing
 
ZZMitch

ZZMitch

Member
Oct 26, 2017
704
Maybe there is a way to fix this, but I am not a fan of the fact that every thread I make a post in gets added to my Watched Thread list. I would like that list to be just threads I explicitly set as watched. Gets way too cluttered way too quickly as is!

Thanks :)
 
Edge

Edge

A King's Landing
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
21,012
Celle, Germany
Why can't we edit the titles of an OT? I know we can ask a mod to do it, but I can't find a reason why we shouldn't be allowed to do it in our own threads.
 
Landawng

Landawng

The Fallen
Nov 9, 2017
3,247
Denver/Aurora, CO
Sorry if this has been covered but sometimes I notice that a posters response in a thread is purple? It's not from a quote or anything I don't think. Just curious why I see that from time to time.
 
Cochese

Cochese

Banned
Nov 14, 2017
6,960
I'd love an ability to use tags to group topics I really don't give a shit about and never see them at all. Like if the thread starter starts a political thread and tags it politics, I could automatically hide it.
 
Leguna

Leguna

Member
Nov 1, 2017
27
weemadarthur said:
The hangout section is like where threads go that will be used for months or years at a time. Whereas the main pages are more for threads that may last only a few days or a couple of weeks.

This allows easier finding of long-term threads, like ones dedicated to a particular game that came out years ago. Or on the Etc. side, a particular community dedicated to making a type of art, for instance.

Newly released games and communities can start on the main page to collect interest, and then be moved to the hangouts section later. The line may not be perfectly consistent in every case, but the mods do a good job collectively, and they are doing the Community Spotlight to try to highlight some of the longer term threads that may have not been noticed by people who would WANT to participate if they knew it was there.
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Thanks for the explanation! Now I get it.
 

Deleted member 283

User requested account closure
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Oct 25, 2017
3,288
ZZMitch said:
Maybe there is a way to fix this, but I am not a fan of the fact that every thread I make a post in gets added to my Watched Thread list. I would like that list to be just threads I explicitly set as watched. Gets way too cluttered way too quickly as is!

Thanks :)
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https://www.resetera.com/account/preferences

"Automatically watch threads that you create or when you reply" : Uncheck that box.

Landawng said:
Sorry if this has been covered but sometimes I notice that a posters response in a thread is purple? It's not from a quote or anything I don't think. Just curious why I see that from time to time.
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That's probably the first unread post in the thread.
 
BitByDeath

BitByDeath

User banned at own request
Banned
Oct 27, 2017
791
I'm planning to start working on my next OT soon so will mention it again...

Draft threads, I want to work on an article over the space of days / weeks.

Would be great to make it so threads can be saved without submission.
 

TacoSavage

Banned
Nov 6, 2017
89
hey guys, not sure where else to ask this, i fucked up when i created my account and used my full name as you can see, is there any way to change it and if not can a mod deactivate my account so i can re sign up?
 
GG-Duo

GG-Duo

Member
Oct 27, 2017
886
CKOHLER said:
There's a serious lack of white space all over the place, imo. The fonts are tiny too. To at least compensate for the former, I've created a couple of CSS rules for Stylebot to increase the amount of breathable space in the thread lists making them easier to read and have elements line up better.

Original appearance:
Ig2UeWP.png


Updated CSS:
vN1OXzJ.png


The code also fixes the odd line-spacing on thread titles where there is more space between the title lines than between the title and subtitle:

Original appearance:
oBCtN22.png


Updated CSS:
nRG2nGJ.png


Here's the code:
Code: 
/* increase white space in thread lists */

.discussionListItem .listBlock.main {
    padding: 5px;
}

.LoggedIn .discussionListItem .titleText {
    padding-left: 30px;
}

/* make thread titles have correct line-height */

.discussionListItem .title {
    line-height: normal;
    padding-bottom: 5px;
}

@media  (max-width: 610px) {
  .Responsive .discussionListItem .listBlock.stats {
    padding-left: 10px;
    margin-top: -20px;
  }
  .Responsive.LoggedIn .discussionListItem .listBlock.stats {
    padding-left: 35px;
  }
}

Overall, there seems to be an over-emphesis on reducing wasted screen realestate but it comes at the cost of making the overall design look too busy and difficult to read. Just my opinion, but I would never use 14 or less point font in this day and age.
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You're not alone. I agree with your assessment of the issue.
 
EarthBound64

EarthBound64

User was permanently banned at own request
Banned
Oct 25, 2017
1,802
Connecticut
Please, please, please, please, please, please, PLEASE have a way to disable embedded "Tweets."
They have been a constant headache, and consistently make browsing these boards literally painful (yes, literally - I have an actual headache).

I've started to put people who embed too many "Tweets" on ignore to at least minimize the issue.
There absolutely needs to be a way to deal with this issue. If fixing it isn't happening, at least to remove it.
 
Aomber

Aomber

Member
Oct 25, 2017
434
Beantown
This might have polarizing opinions, but I wanted to bring up something I've seen over the last couple of days on the forum. I noticed that user warnings & bans are publicly labeled on a user's post. Not just that, they're put in a huge red banner right above said post for everyone to see.

I'm gonna be honest, I'm absolutely not a fan of this. I think it's extremely distracting reading a thread scrolling down and just noticing a big red section - it quite literally sticks out like a sore thumb. I'm not saying warnings/bans being posted publicly should be removed, that's a whole other matter, but the way they're posted has gotta be handled differently imo.
 
Killzig

Killzig

Member
Oct 25, 2017
1,042
Yo Mods, can you consolidate the Battlefront threads? Maybe an OT and a Drama thread? Seems like there's a thread every time someone at DICE farts.
 
playXray

playXray

Chicken Chaser
Member
Oct 27, 2017
614
UK
Not sure if it's been mentioned but can you disable bold fonts on hover? By all means change the colour on hover, but using bold on hover can widen the text enough to break it over two lines when hovered, and it looks odd when the adjacent text is moved a few pixels to the side.

On a related note, could you use emboldened fonts to display a topic with unread posts, in addition to the purple spot?

EDIT: BTW don't want to look too critical here, I am really loving all the recent style changes on the site.
 
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