I'm pleasantly surprised how readable the colored names all are against the current background, but you might want to give some thought to what to do if somebody's color is a close match to a theme background.
Thank you, I might make that my new default Constellation page soon.
Is there still no way to get moiety colors in post infoboxes? I always like that feature when I read one of the ebooks but a lot of the time I’m reading on the constellation proper which doesn’t have that.
We hadn't come up with a convenient way that didn't clutter the UI too much. It is probably doable but it seemed like usernames being in the infoboxes was enough for most purposes, plus I'd probably want to make it toggleable in case people didn't like it (since I expect I might find all the colors kinda annoying).
Today's work session is dedicated to upgrading things (Ruby to 2.1.10, Rails to 3.2.22.2), in large part due to Throne's help and encouragement and pull requests. Shower love upon him. Also there's a couple new sort options and a title for reports while we're in here.
I am strongly of the opinion that moieties have already scaled past their useful life, and find people talking about things like "the salmons!" actively more work because I never actually remember who any color belongs to. I don't want to add more database fields for it, I don't want to do color design around it (especially since I'm terrible at design and it generally causes me a lot of stress to have to do it anyway), and overall don't want to encourage it to continue to exist. Their entire sum usefulness seems replaceable with a "filter by user" dropdown.
My primary use case is distinguishing authors at a glance, not filtering by authors at a glance. That’s harder with flags than colors and much harder with words.
The way it works in Throne’s ebooks is perfect for me. It’s instantly visible, it’s easily distinguishable within the context of a single thread even if a new character is being introduced, and it works visually. I know that’s harder with themes, and I agree it should be toggleable. Last thing I remember about it is Kappa coming up with a way to do it on the Constellation which I thought worked well and I don’t remember any objections to it.
Edit: Beyond the usual objections of people not wanting moieties at all, but that’s what configuration is for. I’m not the only person who uses moieties.
I never actually use the colors in my own ebooks, but they're present since they were present in the ebooks before I took over making them, and then I just made them consistent for the sandboxes which had many more moieties than just purple/green. :P
I do not think this works for the Constellation, but I think DanielH is right that Kappa's previous suggestion didn't have major issues except generation of the different shades to go on the user details? Which shouldn't be much of a problem, but would be somewhat hard to do, plus we'd need to invert text colors if it's dark enough.
