The Glowfic Constellation

[Kappa]

This seems to be shaping up into "site needs a mobile layout".

[Unbitwise]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO.

Sorry, lemme qualify that: “Reduced functionality on phones” is bad (because someone might actually want to do that thing). “Different URLs for phones” is bad (because people follow links, and sync, and so on).

“Add screen-size-controlled tweaks to the stylesheet”: good. “One thing that works well everywhere”: better.

In particular, everything I suggested above would (in my opinion) also be an improvement on not-phones.

[Kappa]

The respective needs of mobile browsing and desktop browsing can be pretty different. I feel like it would be hard to make "one thing that works well everywhere" actually work.

[pedromvilar]

One type of design I like for mobile is having a nicely tucked away menu button (like the one on the top-right of threads) that has the relevant navigation controls.

[Ezra]

The menu button thing can be done with sufficiently clever mobile CSS, to prevent needing separate html.

I like the idea of pulling prev and next out of the line to big targets at the the left and right.

[Bluelantern]

Introductory Wizardry https://vast-journey-9935.herokuapp.com/posts/266 is showing up twice in the unread page

[Marri]

You had somehow managed to create two view records. I'll put a uniqueness constraint on my To Do list. Deleted the duplicate, look okay now?

As for mobile layout: I suck at design, full stop, I have noted and apologized for this a lot. The navigation menu is pretty explicitly "throw everything in one place so at least people can get to it." Goal is eventually to have an actual mobile layout, yes, I just can't make one myself because I don't know hooooow.

[Kappa]

I wonder if we can somehow lure a real live web designer into the glowfic community...

[Marri]

I mean, if it comes down to horrible I have enough of a network I'm sure I could hire someone, but yes, volunteer is always better :P

[Marri]

Am now reasonably comfortable with my tests for all the /characters/* endpoints, which is good because I'm about to muck with the character editor. The "create new template" option you have when creating/editing a character is currently hacked to all get out, and there's a shiny Rails builtin that I want to use instead, but waiting until tests were done seemed wise so I can make sure the new one works.

Also, put in a speed improvement on the Facecasts page, since NewRelic is reporting that as my slowest average endpoint; we'll see if it helps.