Mahz's Dev Journal

[Mahz]

personally think the 'latest ICk' is not a good idea. Things seem to crowded.

@UltikanaRe

Agreed. I was hoping I'd come up with another idea soon. I'll play with it. I'm just going to reverse the mobile directive. Seems like it made it worse for most people. Every company I've worked at has had 1+ full-time dedicated people on mobile-friendliness.

[Mahz]

Okay, it's been removed.

[LegendBegins]

Okay, it's been removed.

@Mahz

That's a shame; it had a lot of potential. If that's the case, are we going to revert the first/last page buttons into ovals?

[Shienvien]

If that's the case, are we going to revert the first/last page buttons into ovals?

LegendBegins

I'd support it - the current buttons are a bit unrefined, and on smaller screens, the borders tend to get (paritally) "eaten" (which leaves just floating links). And while we are at it, could the hover color be changed to something other than white? Edit: Another tiny styling thing: could the shadow effect on tabs be removed? It makes the text look fuzzy in forum view.

[Mahz]

<Snipped quote by LegendBegins>I'd support it - the current buttons are a bit unrefined, and on smaller screens, the borders tend to get (paritally) "eaten" (which leaves just floating links). And while we are at it, could the hover color be changed to something other than white? Edit: Another tiny styling thing: could the shadow effect on tabs be removed? It makes the text look fuzzy in forum view.

@Shienvien

Alright, re-rounded the pager and removed the white-on-hover. Which tabs/shadow-effect are you referring to? These tabs?

[Shienvien]

@Mahz: The RP tabs appear to have the same shadow effect as the white text on, for instance, Quote and Mention buttons. Since both the text and shadow are black, the text just turns slightly fuzzy, or smudged. I did stare at those a bit before I figured out what was off (and that my screen wasn't failing at delivering a clear text, somehow). Zooming in makes it more apparent now that I check; perhaps I should also fetch you a maximum-sized example.

[LegendBegins]

@Mahz I do believe we should keep the larger "latest post" links. I do like the idea to make the buttons (or at least the text inside of them) yellow, or another color that stands out against the gray. Currently, they look like non-functioning links.

[Mahz]

Currently, they look like non-functioning links.

@LegendBegins

Good point. I'll play with it. Update: Alright, turned the Go-> button into just -> buttons with yellow text and some horizontal padding to give them some tappable width.

[Shienvien]

There, I supersized the tabs for you to better bring out the shadow effect I am talking of: (Browser zoom, not photo editor zoom.) And I just noticed the "None" text in Preview error check has similar shadow effect.

[Mahz]

@Shienvien Nice catch, removed it

[LegendBegins]

@Shienvien Nice catch, removed it

@Mahz

Was it intentional to keep the "jump to top/bottom" buttons?

[Mahz]

<Snipped quote by Mahz> Was it intentional to keep the "jump to top/bottom" buttons?

@LegendBegins

Yeah. I didn't reverse my progress making the site more mobile friendly. I just removed the directive that tells the browser to render the site at device-width. I will continuing putting effort into the site for mobile support. In the future I'd like to try forcing the directive again when things are improved. I don't want to break the guild for people, though.

Font size seems incredibly inconsistent on mobile now.

Screenshot

[Edit by Mahz: Fixed link] Uploading images definitely doesn't work well on mobile. I'll try to sort the link out when I can.

[Ellri]

Your image looks broken,@TheMaster99. The last post buttons look good now, but the placement on the RP topics in subscriptions looks... Chaotic. Might work better to have the button before the "Latest IC/OoC/CS: Username" text instead of after.

[Mahz]

Your image looks broken,@TheMaster99. The last post buttons look good now, but the placement on the RP topics in subscriptions looks... Chaotic. Might work better to have the button before the "Latest IC/OoC/CS: Username" text instead of after.

@Ellri

Since his image URL works when you go directly to it, I'm guessing that it's not a Dropbox URL made for hotlinking. Good call on the subscription page chaos. I'll fix it now.

[Mahz]

Font size seems incredibly inconsistent on mobile now.

Screenshot

[Edit by Mahz: Fixed link] Uploading images definitely doesn't work well on mobile. I'll try to sort the link out when I can.

@TheMaster99

Jesus. @Shienvien does that resemble the issue you were having? When did the font-size start doing this? Since this weekend or has it always kinda done that? Makes me want to punch some pillows, guys! It's one of my biggest priorities to solve this font-size issue because that's just straight up unusable. :(

That only started when you reverted the mobile changes, I believe. Thanks for the fix, by the way.

[UltikanaRe]

Thats odd…it doesn't happen on my iPhone. Weird.

[LegendBegins]

<Snipped quote by LegendBegins> Yeah. I didn't reverse my progress making the site more mobile friendly. I just removed the directive that tells the browser to render the site at device-width. I will continuing putting effort into the site for mobile support. In the future I'd like to try forcing the directive again when things are improved. I don't want to break the guild for people, though.

@Mahz

The buttons appear and disappear as you zoom on mobile.

[Mahz]

Thats odd…it doesn't happen on my iPhone. Weird.

@UltikanaRe

Same. That's what makes these issues so frustrating. Can't yall just mail me yall's phones?