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eishiya:

--- Quote from: Indigo on August 29, 2018, 09:24:28 pm ---I've been thinking about removing the sidebar once you dive into a thread though - which might be a good compromise.
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This sounds good to me!
Another compromise would be to make it collapsible, and and to have the collapsed setting persist across pages. If the UI uses JS anyway, there's very little overhead to using Local Storage for stuff like this.


--- Quote ---arbitrary inline images uploaded and embedded into the post content
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This is the ideal, in my opinion. I think the automatic thumbnail should grab the first inline image in the most recent post by OP that includes images (excluding quotes - quoted images should still be considered "attached" to the original post). For efficiency, the thumbnail could be a URL stored with each thread, and it would get updated every time there's a new post, getting changed if needed. In addition, a "change thread thumbnail" button should be provided to allow selecting any of the images in the thread (including ones by other people - honor system! and good for features). Clicking the button would open a browser of thumbnail versions of all the images posted in the thread for the user to select, and it should also provide an "Automatic" option to return to the default thumbnails.

For the non-critique sections, the preview image should just be the most recent poster's avatar by default, but the OP should be able to click the "change thread thumbnail" button and select an image posted in the thread, the same as in the critique boards. Naturally, moderators should be able to change any thread's thumbnail.

The strength of this system is that it would reduce the need to deal with 3rd party image hosts and broken images. The question then is, should off-site embeds be allowed at all? The easiest answer is "no". There are some situations where it might be useful, but I think it would be fine to disallow it. After all, most other sites that feature uploading images don't also let you hotlink them xP

If you're not sure what I mean, I can provide pseudocode for the logic.


--- Quote ---Giving a karma point is like saying "thank you."  It might end up being called something different to help reflect that.
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AO3 has "kudos". Calling it that or even just "thanks!" would be good. It might also cut down on responses to critique that are just "thanks, I'll implement this later!" that people post just to be polite.

0xDB:

--- Quote from: Indigo on August 29, 2018, 09:24:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: 0xDB ---A feature to create a PDF from a thread (with all images embedded) would be nice to have as well to save local backups of threads for offline reading
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Interesting idea.  Is offline reading something you do a lot?
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Not at the moment but I like the feeling of safety that comes with having local backups of stuff for times without internet access. The feature to create a PDF might not be necessary though as long as there will be a way to display all posts in a thread simultaneously without having to advance through pages(of n posts per page) or through some automatic load-more-posts-as-you-scroll mechanism. In that case a browsers builtin SavePage mechanism could be used to save a thread.

eishiya:

--- Quote from: 0xDB on August 30, 2018, 07:17:17 pm ---
--- Quote from: Indigo on August 29, 2018, 09:24:28 pm ---
--- Quote from: 0xDB ---A feature to create a PDF from a thread (with all images embedded) would be nice to have as well to save local backups of threads for offline reading
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Interesting idea.  Is offline reading something you do a lot?
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Not at the moment but I like the feeling of safety that comes with having local backups of stuff for times without internet access. The feature to create a PDF might not be necessary though as long as there will be a way to display all posts in a thread simultaneously without having to advance through pages(of n posts per page) or through some automatic load-more-posts-as-you-scroll mechanism. In that case a browsers builtin SavePage mechanism could be used to save a thread.

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I think a minimal "reader view" or "print-friendly" view would be a good and more multi-purpose solution to this. This would be good for people on older mobile devices, people who just prefer to read with minimal clutter, and for saving as a PDF via the browser. The bulk of the work would be creating an alternate stylesheet for this, and providing a way to switch (not all browsers provide that ability, and most users don't even know how to do it in the browser).

MysteryMeat:
As I said in the other thread, I very much don't like that first draft in the op. As long as it's not Twitter-lookin' I'll be fine, but please don't do that.

One thing you might consider in addition to the jobs and critique boards are informational reserves, or a wiki for commonly (and uncommonly) used terminology. For example, I used to think dithering was the same as aliasing.

Zizka:
I think it'd be great to have some reward for people who give criticism, some kind of recognition which should be a bit more visible so to speak.

Could there be a way to archive as a glossary? For example, walking animations. Have an index where you get informative posts about walking animations. The search function can work, sure. This being said, some posts are more informative than others.

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