Captain Jordan

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<Snipped quote by Shienvien> Damn, I'll try some random changes in a bit to see if any of them help. <Snipped quote by Captain Jordan> Line up in what way? Hmm, I need to make them much smaller.

@Mahz

That, or reduce the white space by bringing unsub and new reply down to the same line as the tab. EDIT: Oh, wait, you can't can you? IC topics need those tabs. Crap.

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I know you're still working on it, @Mahz, but when you get time you might consider getting these buttons to line up on mobile:

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<Snipped quote by The Slenderman> This is so [surprisingly] heavily requested that I'll just do it. Maybe when I'm done patching the mobile-friendly changes once they go live.

@Mahz

I kinda, ick, hate this one. Mind making this one private only to the profile owner, too? I've never seen the benefit of publicly displaying the people who are stalking you.

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<Snipped quote by Captain Jordan>Such as the word written on the tag? :-P I maintain that black text would be more comfortable to read on tags so light-colored, though. Or that the tags themselves need to be darker. I can second that red/green is by far the most common type of colorblindness, though. (It doesn't help that both GuildRed and GuildGreen are a bit on the faded side.) Ehh... I know at least one person with several types of color-blindness on RPG, so I could ask them, should we want to make it as colorblind-friendly as possible. It can be a bit hard to tell what'd work and what not when all talkers have decent to perfect color-discrimination.

@Shienvien

In the past, I've used websites like this: http://www.color-blindness.com/coblis-color-blindness-simulator/ or this: http://colorfilter.wickline.org/ to check if my webpages are color-blind accessible. Most fail horribly. I also agree that a darker text on those buttons would be appropriate. The white, as is, hurts my own (not color-blind) eyes.

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<Snipped quote by Captain Jordan> isn't red/green more common?

@TheFake

Perhaps. It'd be nice if there was more than just color used to denote the status.

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While I love the function of "Full" and "Apply," I don't like how much real estate it's taking up. I would suggest styling it similar to a tag, only with different background colors to help differentiate their function from the other tags. Here's a mockup of what I mean. Also, it might be worth considering to change the color of "Full" from warning/error/delete red to "We good"/chillout blue. Being "Full" is a good thing if you're in the game. Maybe I'm off on that, thoughts?

@clark

Green and Blue might be too close for any Blue/Green colorblind users.

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Question for mobile users: I can put some work into the guild so that it renders to the width of your device. No more constant zooming. Most things that are implemented as columns when viewed on a large screen will be "stacked" when viewed on your mobile device. For instance, when viewing a post, the username/avatar will stack above the post content. But that also means that, when viewing the homepage from a mobile device, there will be no sidebar anymore. It will instead stack below all of the forums. Everything will be 100% width on mobile devices. I have a smartphone but I rarely use it for browsing the internet, so I have zero intuition here. What do yall generally prefer when viewing websites on your mobile device? Would you rather just see the non-mobile version and have to zoon, or would you rather I refactor the website so that it things adjust to your screen's width? Here's an example of a sidebar "stacking" below the main content as your shrink the window (or view on mobile device): http://getbootstrap.com/examples/blog/

@Mahz

Honestly, zooming on a mobile device is one of the most awful things there is. I'd rather have a squished, but full, experience of a website than keep panning from side to side or use an app which compromises on features.

Harrison Ford

Probably next time he jumps out of one. The man is either a walking accident, or just high on life.

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Well, post-launch interest checks can still be useful, like if the RP has gone a month or three, then has lost a player or three and needs to replace them. On that thought... Would it be a good or a bad idea to have interest checks without any GM/CoGM activity for n days to automatically get tagged as "full"? (With n being a fairly large number, say two weeks?)

@Ellri

What would be ideal is if Interest Checks could be tied to the RP thread. Change the RP status to full, and the Check status changes. Change the RP status to open, and the Check gets bumped and status changed to open.

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If someone is going to get mad over a dislike, then they are a kid. Other sites have the dislike button and only child get upset by it.

@Rare

And we have many, many children here. People have gotten upset (and banned) over less. Let's not try to add more fuel to the fire.