The Glowfic Constellation

[Marri]

Throne has kindly fixed various layout issues, including the light text in the keyword dropdown and the weirdly tall box.

I have pushed two performance improvements; one was an unnecessary database lookup per icon on the character create/edit page (probably won't affect most of you) and one affects how I render replies to a post (will probably affect most/all of you).* I'll watch NewRelic, but ping me if you notice a big performance hit or anything.

[Ezra]

That definitely helps on the icon height thing. It still gives a little wiggle, I think due to no height on the site logo at the top? (Of starry light for me, atm, but presumably also any other style with an icon.)

[Unbitwise]

So, content warnings, the seeing thereof. Right now I have two choices: I can have a loud banner at the top of every page displaying them, or I can have the information completely hidden.

I feel that this is missing the intermediate state of "the information is present but not interfering with reading".

[Marri]

They're also on the stats page, is that too hidden?

[Unbitwise]

I was not aware there was such a thing as a "stats page". I found it now, but that's still well outside of the natural flow of reading a thread, so, “yes.”

(For myself, I am not trying to Protect Myself From Things, so the loud repetitive warning is obnoxious, but hiding it entirely is hiding information that the author considered worth mentioning and therefore wrong.)

The place that makes sense to me is together with the “first post” — but that doesn't help anyone who really wants to see warnings and also wants to follow a link to the middle of a thread.

[DanielH]

Would it work to make it like the first post, in that it is available on every page but collapsed on non-first pages, but separately collapsible and above the first post? That way you can see at the top of every page whether there are warnings for the thread, and you can easily see what they are if you want, and they don’t get in the way too much if you don’t.

[Unbitwise]

Sure, that would make sense. Preferably it should not take up another line of height — there's enough clutter already.

[Kappa]

I feel like having the warnings hideable but still visible on the stats page is a reasonable state of affairs, and offhand I can't think of a reasonable way to tuck them in somewhere near-but-not-in the top post without taking up any vertical space...

[Marri]

Are you reading as an anonymous user or do you have a account? The logged out experience does need post-by-post tweaking.

[Unbitwise]

I can't think of a reasonable way to tuck them in somewhere near-but-not-in the top post without taking up any vertical space...

I meant that the thing to reveal them shouldn't take up space on non-first pages. One way to do this, for example, would be to fit it into the same line as the "+ Show First Post" button. Or for that matter, if there's only warning the warning itself could fit in that line.

Are you reading as an anonymous user or do you have a account?

I do not have an account. (Opinion: Having an account should not be a requirement for a good reading experience. New readers…)

The logged out experience does need post-by-post tweaking.

I don't know what you mean by “post-by-post” there.