[Sandwich]

Nothing should be appearing wonky right now. If it's wonky, force-refresh.

[BritishShivans]

Oh hey, it's gone. Wonder why that happened?

[Sandwich]

Your browser was caching old CSS files. I just implemented something that should prevent that from ever happening again.

[Klaustrophobia]

i haven't read all 3 pages yet so i don't know if this has been addressed, but please GOD don't put the expanding signatures back.  i like the way it is as of this posting (faded header/sigs).  maybe a little less fade would be better though.  i think the old signature boxes, just not expanding would be fine too.  i think that the headers/signatures probably don't really need to contrast all that much with the post body, just be clearly separated.  the signature box, bolder lines, more spacing, etc. 

having said that though, another forum i'm on just uses different colored text by default and a simple dashed line for the signature to great effect.  it's on a less busy white/light blue theme though so that may not translate well.

also, curious as to why the buttons changed color except for the reply button.  it looks fine, just wondering if it was intentional or not.

[Sandwich]

also, curious as to why the buttons changed color except for the reply button.  it looks fine, just wondering if it was intentional or not.

Screenshot or it didn't happen...

[yuezhi]

i haven't read all 3 pages yet so i don't know if this has been addressed, but please GOD don't put the expanding signatures back.  i like the way it is as of this posting (faded header/sigs).  maybe a little less fade would be better though.  i think the old signature boxes, just not expanding would be fine too.  i think that the headers/signatures probably don't really need to contrast all that much with the post body, just be clearly separated.  the signature box, bolder lines, more spacing, etc. 

Sandwich, my sig is too thick

[Polpolion]

I kinda got used to the fixed height signatures. Now they're all just too huge so I turned them off. Personally I'm not opposed to having them as long as they're not bigger than what they were before.

[Klaustrophobia]

also, curious as to why the buttons changed color except for the reply button.  it looks fine, just wondering if it was intentional or not.

Screenshot or it didn't happen...

well it's nothing to get excited about, just the other ones are grey now. 

[Black Wolf]

Without the resizing boxes, digs like Sambo's are pretty massive in mobile view, significantly bigger (and therefore more prominent) than the post in most cases, greyness notwithstanding.

Length limit or something?

[Fury]

Please limit size of those embedded videos, they are obscenely huge.

[Sandwich]

well it's nothing to get excited about, just the other ones are grey now. 

You must have been caching a really old CSS file - those buttons have been that color (red Reply, gray everything else) for many, many months.

Without the resizing boxes, digs like Sambo's are pretty massive in mobile view, significantly bigger (and therefore more prominent) than the post in most cases, greyness notwithstanding.

Length limit or something?

Yeah, that's the predicament... limit sig length (which doesn't prevent someone from filling that allotment up with linebreaks...) and anger people, limit sig height and cut off people's sigs, or limit height and provide a way to expand to a sufficient height. Not sure which way is best.

Please limit size of those embedded videos, they are obscenely huge.

Well, the videos are fluid-width, adapting to the forum width in the browser. I typically view the forum in a limited-width mode; I'm guessing you're in the classic "full-width" mode? I can imagine videos getting a bit oversize like that. Hmm. I'll see what I can do.

[Sandwich]

Ok, embedded media (YouTube and Vimeo videos, and P3D thingys) are limited in width now for those of you with the forums in full-width mode. I arbitrarily chose a max-width of 960px; if you have any reason for anything different, lemme know.

[Scotty]

I put in my vote for limiting sig length on the user side.  Users who have sigs over <x> length (not in characters) will be politely asked to shorten it.

[Klaustrophobia]

well it's nothing to get excited about, just the other ones are grey now. 

You must have been caching a really old CSS file - those buttons have been that color (red Reply, gray everything else) for many, many months.

i might be just going crazy, but i could swear they were all red before...


as for video size, why not just leave them original size?  what's the default youtube plays in the little windows, 480?  no sense in stretching things and making them look fuzzy.

[Sandwich]

YouTube videos automatically adapt their quality to the window size, so there actually is a point.

[jr2]

Ah, just a note, when you get to it, the reply window needs (unless you don't want) icons for yt vimeo and 3d model links (that's how I learned a bit of BBCode without having to bother asking people).

Also, for sigs, how about a faded double arrow pointing downwards at the end of a short, fixed length sig that will expand only when clicked?  Make the double arrow button clickable area the same width as the post, and have it unobtrusively highlight itself on mouseover.

Basically, thin clickable rectangle the width of the posts, of a slightly lighter color than the current HLP background color, that becomes visible when mouseover, with only the small grey double arrow being visible when not in mouseover (perhaps have the double arrow change to black in mouseover to stand out more against the clickable rectangle).


.... does that suggestion make any sense or am I not being clear enough?

[FreeSpaceFreak]

Ah, just a note, when you get to it, the reply window needs (unless you don't want) icons for yt vimeo and 3d model links (that's how I learned a bit of BBCode without having to bother asking people).

Also, for sigs, how about a faded double arrow pointing downwards at the end of a short, fixed length sig that will expand only when clicked?  Make the double arrow button clickable area the same width as the post, and have it unobtrusively highlight itself on mouseover.

Basically, thin clickable rectangle the width of the posts, of a slightly lighter color than the current HLP background color, that becomes visible when mouseover, with only the small grey double arrow being visible when not in mouseover (perhaps have the double arrow change to black in mouseover to stand out more against the clickable rectangle).


.... does that suggestion make any sense or am I not being clear enough?

Video embedding buttons and expand-on-click sigs - both good suggestions IMHO

[Sandwich]

I agree. BBCode buttons for YouTube, Vimeo, and P3D added. Now to work on the sigs.

[Sandwich]

Ok, how's the signature toggle thing look now? I'm pretty satisfied with how it turned out.

[Arpit]

I don't know what others think but I find this expand and collapse pretty convenient.