Glowfic platform

[DanielH]

I second Unbitwise’s comment. I use a browser which actually does word wrap/text reflow on zoom (Opera for Android), so I don’t care as much about the main sidebar but will be very upset if you put a maximum scale into that viewport meta or use it to disable user scaling. I still care about the comment-specific sidebars, and cannot see them on my phone without scrolling.

[DanielH]

On a different subject, more requests:

• Moiety color easily visible in the per-post sidebar, not just author name. This would make it easier to determine at a glance
• List of all authors in a sandbox thread, not just the creator
• Ability for a thread creator to lock a thread to a given set of authors

The last two seem to be implemented on aper-continuity level, but not a per-thread level. Ideally they would work per-thread-branch for forked threads.

[Marri]

Man I haven't even touched mobile compatibility yet (I am smart phone friendly but local development is a thing so I'll be relying mostly on Chrome) but that is a very good call.

I put in some minor tweaks that should help? The Magic Incantation, login/logout is awkwardly in the top menu, side menu's stuck in the top, posts-per-page defaults to All rather than 25. Not optimized by a long shot but is it at least better?

When you say "both left sidebars" do you mean "left menu" and "icon/username menu" or "left menu" and "small filler column of colors"? My tweaks assumed the second thing.

I have no particular interest in putting things at a maximum scale, so if it appears that I have in fact put a maximum scale on something, let me know, it's probably not on purpose and I shall attempt to fix it.

Optional opt-in email notifications are likely to be under "planned but cost money and so go last"; depends what Heroku plugins I can find. At bare minimum I'll have a "posts you might owe" page which shows threads you've posted in where you aren't the most recent poster.

@DanielH I shall add your requests to my list!

[Ezra]

For mobile layout, I think I'd prefer to have the names to the side of the icon and the text full width below, versus the current layout with one column of icons and names and another of text.

[Ezra]

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[Unbitwise]

I put in some minor tweaks that should help? The Magic Incantation, login/logout is awkwardly in the top menu, side menu's stuck in the top, posts-per-page defaults to All rather than 25. Not optimized by a long shot but is it at least better?

Better!

When you say "both left sidebars" do you mean "left menu" and "icon/username menu" or "left menu" and "small filler column of colors"? My tweaks assumed the second thing.

I meant both "the thing with only a login button in it" and "the thing with the icons and usernames in it". But looking at it now, having just the latter is okay.

Independently of mobile, I mildly dislike having the username/icon on the left (as opposed to being a bar between comments like DW site style) because it takes who-is-saying-what out of the flow of reading the story. Especially as the character name is very low contrast blue-on-dark-gray. It also overemphasizes the author name compared to everything else.

[jalapeno_dude]

Can you add something like this board's "view first unread post" feature (the red icon next to threads where there have been posts since the last time you viewed it, which you can click on to be taken to the first unread post)? Now that there are multiple sandboxes on the site this would be *hugely* appreciated. Thread subscriptions would also be nice, but *some* notification of unread posts is an absolute minimum for usability for me!

[jalapeno_dude]

Also, for use in e.g. the mini-notifications thread it would be nice to link to a particular post in a thread--e.g. on this board this link goes to the post above this one (and that url is what you get by clicking on the icon next to "by jalapeno_dude" on that post).

EDIT: This already exists, see discussion here--just not visible without looking into the HTML source.

[Marri]

I hadn't made it more visible cause I hadn't sorted out how to deal with page numbers yet. Pushed a slightly hacky workaround.

[Lambda]

Ooh, nice.

You can avoid dealing with page numbers based on the fact that the link is attached to the post, which is only visible if you're only on the right page. So instead of <a href="/posts/[threadID]?reply_id=[replyID]">, you could just have <a href="#reply-[replyID]">. The browser will figure out the right thing from there on its own.