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Taemin May 28th, 2019 10:55 AM

Post flairs! Top or side layout?
 
Given that there's two ways to display your posts, how do you handle your post flair?

Originally, I built mine only to fit with the sidebar style posts, but then I switched forums styles and realized WOW that looks terrible when displayed at the top...

How have your post flair adventures gone over the last few months or weeks?

Sheep May 29th, 2019 3:31 AM

Top. It's harder to design flairs with both post styles in mind if you're using an actual background rather than a pattern or something, and I always prefer how postbits look with information at the top rather than side. Used to be mega into the legacy left side postbit, but now I don't like it at all anymore.

Tsutarja May 29th, 2019 5:26 AM

In terms of information being laid out, I definitely prefer it to the side that way it's right there next to the username and avatar. However, I get that with the new UI live, people are using backgrounds that need the width so I can see why up top is the preferred style.

However, that is why I think it's important to have both layouts in consideration, which is why I went with nothing more than a repeating background for my flair.

Nah May 29th, 2019 5:38 AM

I've always preferred top/standard for postbits on PC

my flair is meant more for that than legacy, and so it kind of doesn't look good on legacy, but there's probably not much I can do about that without sacrificing the part I like about it best, which is the FE Awakening text boxes for the userstats

edit: it's better now, thanks to Fairy =)

alisaie May 29th, 2019 9:15 AM

I try to have it work for both but legacy is priority because thats what i use the most. Honestly the only reason why i like to check it for standard is more for mobile reasons since mobile uses standard.

I think ive been pretty successful my last few flairs? I believe this one needs a little tweaking for non-mobile standard but it still looks good.

Fairy May 29th, 2019 9:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nah (Post 10025288)
I've always preferred top/standard for postbits on PC

my flair is meant more for that than legacy, and so it kind of doesn't look good on legacy, but there's probably not much I can do about that without sacrificing the part I like about it best, which is the FE Awakening text boxes for the userstats

I can probably fix that for ya, haha. Yours was one of the first flairs I ever designed and I had no idea what kind of length/width restrictions applied. But if you want I can make it better!

As for myself, I use legacy but always make sure my personal flairs look good in both. ;)

Nah May 29th, 2019 1:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fairy (Post 10025363)
I can probably fix that for ya, haha. Yours was one of the first flairs I ever designed and I had no idea what kind of length/width restrictions applied. But if you want I can make it better!

If you don’t mind, then please do

Sammi May 29th, 2019 6:13 PM

I don't have any background images or anything but my flair is less likely to blind you on legacy, which is what I use. If I went fancy I'd probably make it more for legacy because I'm old and like my info on the left.

Hmm... might need to adjust the color, whoops.

Wavee May 29th, 2019 10:47 PM

Side view? Legacy?
https://i.imgur.com/KF6aWRu.gif

Arcaneum May 30th, 2019 12:12 AM

Legacy is just too much hassle to accommodate my flairs for so I’ll stick with standard and wait for Legacy to die its much-needed death

Cid May 30th, 2019 12:16 AM

Would the side layout / Legacy work on mobile? I never had the initiative to change it, and I'm too lazy to try it on my laptop. I guess that means the top layout is my preference?

colours May 30th, 2019 12:44 AM

although my flair looks fine in both, I'm going to stick with Standard because I cba using Legacy.

Taemin June 1st, 2019 9:04 PM

What I have learned from this thread is that only me and one other person likes Legacy. sobs

Palamon June 1st, 2019 9:08 PM

i don't even remember how to change to the legacy postbit, tbh, so yeah, I use top postbit.

I don't think my postflair gif would look very good in legacy view anyway.

Percy June 2nd, 2019 12:27 AM

which one's legacy? hahaha forgot about them but the flairs are at the side for me. it looks cleaner that way.

alisaie June 2nd, 2019 12:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cid (Post 10025601)
Would the side layout / Legacy work on mobile? I never had the initiative to change it, and I'm too lazy to try it on my laptop. I guess that means the top layout is my preference?

In the new ui its only standard on mobile so you can change it for your computer and it'll still be standard on mobile if thats what youre worried about.

Im ok with standard on mobile but idk standard on the computer literally hurts my eyes ://

Tsutarja June 2nd, 2019 6:09 AM

Depending on how large your phone is, if you flip it to landscape (from portrait), you could see the legacy postbit if it's set to that. :> Also viewing in desktop mode as well could trigger it on mobile

Quote:

Originally Posted by Percy (Post 10027022)
which one's legacy? hahaha forgot about them but the flairs are at the side for me. it looks cleaner that way.

Legacy is to the top and Standard is up top!

Fairy June 2nd, 2019 6:15 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Tsutarja (Post 10027098)
Legacy is to the top and Standard is up top!

https://media2.giphy.com/media/qkJJRL9Sz1R04/giphy.gif

alisaie June 4th, 2019 9:46 AM

Browsing pc on landspace just sounds weird af tbh.... but maybe thats just me

Taemin June 4th, 2019 10:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Ash (Post 10027030)
Im ok with standard on mobile but idk standard on the computer literally hurts my eyes ://

Sameeee, I love legacy, standard kinda makes my eyes hurt - though I used it for years so idk why I dislike it now. sdfsdf

tokyodrift June 4th, 2019 12:39 PM

Standard master race

moon June 4th, 2019 12:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Green (Post 10028115)
Sameeee, I love legacy, standard kinda makes my eyes hurt - though I used it for years so idk why I dislike it now. sdfsdf

There are at least 6 people in this thread who enjoy Side postbit style and flairs, don't worry :3 I stopped using Top yeeears ago, because it just looked really weird and awkward on desktop when the styles and screens got wider, as Ash also says. If fixed width forum skins were a thing again, it'd look better (and I used to use Top posbit on fixed styles!) but still just be worse use of space than Legacy/Side imo. It totally works fine on mobile though, due to the very different aspect ratios and text size and all.

I love my Legacy post flairs but I try to make sure they don't completely crash on Top at least :3

Emilia June 5th, 2019 10:33 AM

I've always used top but I think my flair would be decent on the side layout cuz' it's just a gradient lol

colours June 5th, 2019 10:56 AM

btw I've actually tried using Legacy for a good while, and eventually I stopped using it for a few main reasons

one of them was because there's a massive space in the post content area which doesn't go away, like, ever. I suppose it's because I have signatures disabled, but I'm not willing to enable them again just for the sake of the post layout being bearable. I disabled them in the first place for a cleaner browsing experience, but since most people make shorter posts it's just annoying to deal with.

even in the case of longer posts, it stretches out the post flair unnecessarily. on standard, it doesn't matter whether your posts are long or short, it doesn't really affect the post flair at all, because the flair isn't part of the post content area. but in legacy, it seems to act like it is, so it stretches depending on the length of the post so that's also something to take into consideration when designing flairs when can be kind of annoying depending on the flair that you have.

so not only do you (generally) have to design flairs that don't totally look like a mess on both post layouts, but you have to be mindful of how it looks when stretched out as well if you ever decide to make a long post.

also while I browse PC fullscreen i can imagine if it may be annoying for half screen people to browse, doubly annoying if they have to read a long post while not browsing on fullscreen. the legacy folk can argue that there's a huge unnecessary space in-between the username/usertitle and the user information, but you can double that space in legacy pretty easily if you cared enough to because you can stretch the post flair as long as you want.

I do respect whatever preferences people have at the end of the day, though. I understand how legacy peeps like the more condensed information because it looks neater that way. but the little nitpicks are something that I can't deal with orz

Adam Levine June 5th, 2019 10:11 PM

Wait, there's a side layout?


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