Revised discussion list layout now on the preview site

ianmorland

Morning folks,

We've been looking over your feedback recently on 'wasted whitespace' within the discussion lists. Whilst we are likely to iterate over this several times, we have our first improvement deployed and ready for you to look over on our preview site

Specifically:

Compressed the discussion previews on each index/tag page in order to waste less space/fit more discussion previews on-screen
Removed the primary tag from discussion previews if you are on that tag's index page - now only shows the sub-tag if there is one

Our very own @harrycollins97 is looking for your feedback on these changes, what do you think so far?

Edit 10am: We're in the process of rolling this change out here on the live site as well

peterhall0012

ianmorland thanks keep up the good work

davidevans0000

ianmorland cheers the forum is getting better day by day.

endorphin

ianmorland @harrycollins97 seems like the preview site has some problems:

Something went wrong while trying to load the full version of this site. Try hard-refreshing this page to fix the error.

Needless to say hard-refreshing doesn't work. I also tried turning on my VPN to use an IPV4 address to no avail.

blackfive460

@harrycollins97

That's certainly an improvement but is there any reason why the latest reply mention can't go on the same line as the thread starter mention. That could save a bit more space without making things difficult to read.

endorphin

blackfive460 That's certainly an improvement but is there any reason why the latest reply mention can't go on the same line as the thread starter mention.

I got this reply from Alex when I suggested that here.

That's fine on desktop, but doesn't work on mobile. It will have to be on two lines for mobile.

z201205

endorphin but doesn't work on mobile. It will have to be on two lines for mobile.

I don't see why. There seems to be plenty of space on that line on mobile if you start it on the left hand side rather than under the thread title.

ianmorland

Update: We're now rolling out this initial change here on the live site

ianmorland

endorphin That's very odd indeed. We're not seeing that from this end on a variety of browsers..

Can I please ask you to try in a private/incognito window just to rule out the possibility of some sort of caching issue?

mrjeeves

endorphin Did that only happen on the Tags page?

endorphin

ianmorland I get the same error using a private/incognito window. I also tried using Opera Developer's VPN and get the same.

UPDATE it's now working fine!? 😮

ianmorland

endorphin apologies, it appears that the issue was in relation to the experimental 'dark mode' that @mrjeeves and I have been playing with. I've disabled it for the moment, and the preview site is back up and running 🙂

endorphin

ianmorland thanks for the clarification. I thought I was losing it back there! 😃

Love the way you teflon shouldered part of the blame on to @mrjeeves. 😛

ianmorland

endorphin thanks for the clarification. I thought I was losing it back there!

No problem. I'll see if I can find a few minutes this evening to work out what is going wrong with it, in the meantime I need to finish off the payback data extraction for you lovely members 🙂

endorphin Love the way you teflon shouldered part of the blame on to @mrjeeves.

Purely to let him know the source of the bug find 😉

mrjeeves

endorphin Yeah I love it too 😂😂

Hmmm... This doesn't happen on my local Flarum install... Looks like it'll need some more looking into than I thought.

Could you send a screenshot of the devtools console please?

endorphin

mrjeeves Did that only happen on the Tags page?

No, it happened on all of the the views and even in threads IIRC.

mrjeeves Could you send a screenshot of the devtools console please?

It's working fine now that Ian's backed out Dark Mode. Not that I understand exactly what you're asking me for?!

z201205 I don't see why.

It wasn't me that stated the restriction, I was quoting alex_w.

shabazmoqsud

@ianmorland this is much better i like it very much.

extreme_one

z201205 I don't see why. There seems to be plenty of space on that line on mobile if you start it on the left hand side rather than under the thread title.

Nowhere near enough space for the two lines to sit on one on the mobile view. You need to consider longer usernames:

danwillen

z201205 I don't see why. There seems to be plenty of space on that line on mobile if you start it on the left hand side rather than under the thread title.

What space are you referring to I don't see any space on that line.

z201205

Still seems there's a lot of room for improvement. The eye symbol and count could be moved under the other count of new posts.

endorphin

extreme_one @danwillen mind you, the view counter doesn't need to occupy its own line.