Official Feedback Request: Categories and Forum Display

Hiroshi Sotomura said:

PC uses American English spelling.

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Roleplay Theater confirmed?

Hiroshi Sotomura said:

Platinum is officially represented as bronze, red and silver.

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Looks gold to me 8)

Team Fail said:

It's sparkly with a really dark gold color.

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Point in case, it's not platinum, that's for sure.

I mean, we could argue those are the official colours, but the more reasonable way to look at this is to take the colours for what they are.

I think the design is really cool and fits the visual theme you guys have going here, but things look kind of off-balance with them on the right.

I love these. My vote goes to the more subtly colored bars on the left.

Just a small note, Pokémon Trivia's event bar is still a non-fancy "[event]". The same goes for most tags in Pokémon General.

I'm not a fan of the bars on the right, it just looks so off-balance as said above.

It really needs to go back to the left D:



It's still on the left here, and it's really awkward being on the right in the index: I thought it would grow on me, but the opposite has happened.

I find it really hard to notice the category bars on the right at all. Maybe because I have a wide screen and fluid width, but I actually thought they'd been removed for a while... Oops >_<
They are much more subtle, but I did like the colourfulness they brought. however not everyone shares this opinion so maybe a compromise could be met such as the suggested design for them? Still colourful yet subtle. /shrug

I gotta admit that I prefer having them on the left. Having the tags separate from the title seems a bit odd, don't you think?

I don't understand what benefit placing them on the right has, seeing as most people read from left to right. Is it "just because" or is there an actual reason?

They should follow how they perform on the index. That implies that they should be either above the thread title or preceding it for consistency sake. At the moment this is reducing mapping flow in user experience. I also agree with the motion to keep them to the left of text. It doesn't matter if you decide to call prefixes "categories", they serve the same purpose. So they don't need a spontaneous functional redefinition by moving them from one area that is consistent with their placing on the forum index and on the breadcrumbs, to a nonsensical area such as the middle of the thread index.

i'm so confused as to why anything needed to be changed after the category bars were first added

I brought this up as an idea in HQ before I even saw this thread ( D: ) , but can we just kill post icons? They're pointless, and with them gone, we could put the prefixes in their place which 1) gets them out of the way of the thread title and 2) reduced clutter and is more streamlined and 3) is still left-justified:

Stormbringer said:

I brought this up as an idea in HQ before I even saw this thread ( D: ) , but can we just kill post icons? They're pointless, and with them gone, we could put the prefixes in their place which 1) gets them out of the way of the thread title and 2) reduced clutter and is more streamlined and 3) is still left-justified:

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Seconded. Post icons are a fun way to distinguish your thread but... It's not very necessary and the forums would look neater without them. Especially if they currently hog a spot that could be used by categories.

Hiroshi Sotomura said:

Do keep in mind that the categories have variable lengths. Putting them to the left is either going to push the title (as in previously) or leave wasted space (what it would do if it were given a column to the left).

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Can't we set a limit for their length and make bars that are longer than that have smaller text on two rows?

Team Fail said:

How about the icons just go away, but the categories still go before the title and don't have their own dedicated section? I'd say that'd be a fair compromise, and it'd keep in line with Gav's suggestion of keeping it aesthetically pleasing and not jarring.

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I'd be ok with that too, as long as the prefix comes first, then thread title, etc. Looks much better that way, imo.

I find it so weird seeing icons (such as locked, indicators that you have posted in a thread etc) aligned to the right and the text enlarged. It's just very visually unappealing to me.

literally what was wrong with how the text size was before lol
if people didn't like it then they would have said something

you're changing things for the sake of change despite how you may dress it up
which is rarely if ever a good course of action to take

Hiroshi Sotomura said:

Let's see, offsetting things with these categories calls for larger click/tap targets to click?

The size is the same as text content in an actual thread and around the forum so it's getting distinguished?

I'm brushing it off in saying this but the web often changes things around for the sake of getting with the trends.

The actual reason cited, by the way, is that the title would be the same size as the categories and should be distinct.

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but these reasons are nothing if people don't care for the end result
and given how the response to the changes made after the category titles were introduced has been nearly totally negative or otherwise not positive (some people even thinking the forum was flat out broken at first), it seems like the majority of people have a different idea of functionality than you do