The Glowfic Constellation

[Marri]

It changed a fairly long time ago, I haven't touched it in a while xD Go to view page and enter reply at the bottom, does that work?

EDIT: I made a way for the site to message you about imports but it's confusing the reply feature, plz hold

EDIT2: Fixed it

[pedromvilar]

A while ago I mentioned a thing that I think should be default when attaching images to posts on the Constellation and I have a good example to explain what i was talking about.

When you attach an image to a reply on the Constellation, it automatically sets the image's width and height parametres to whatever the image's actual width and height are. I usually manually edit the HTML to replace those attributes with a single attribute:

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style="max-width:100%; height:auto;"

The effect of doing this can be seen if you look at the this was a triumph toplevel's image on your computer and on mobile: it's automatically resized to fit the screen, rather than leaking to the sides and needing scrolling to be properly visualised. I think this is a much better default than the current one - I remember one thread of lintamande's where there was this gorgeous picture of a pretty place but it was so huge I needed to scroll to fully see it even on my computer screen.

How hard would it be to alter that default of the Rich Text Editor's? And does everyone agree with me that this default is better?

[Kappa]

I fully agree that it would be better but I bet it would be a huge pain to alter the default. If it turns out not to be a huge pain, though, I'm all in favour!

[Moriwen]

Thanks for fixing messages, Marri! <3

(It can't have been that way too long, I know I'm like the one person who uses Constellation PMs but I do use them pretty regularly.)

[Throne3d]

We could disable the image dimensions fields of the editor so it no longer forces a size when you input an image, then add that as a default style for image display? It wouldn't fix retroactively, and it might be annoying for people who want to input specific image dimensions who don't know how to do that with HTML – I'm not sure that would occur very often, though. (The previous problem was disabling image dimensions by default while still leaving the box available.)

The expand/collapse feature of messages has been around for a while, though I agree it's not very clear from the UI that they can be expanded. Not being able to reply was a recent breakage (as of a day or two ago?) which is unrelated, though.

[Marri]

Some combination of code timestamps and patch notes say it's been about two months, so not too horribly long, no.

Also I checked it, and:
Total messages - 1425
Total messages excluding messages sent to-or-from Moriwen - 297
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@Pedro did the thing, hopefully it helps (deep link), I did not alter the RTF editor I just made a CSS rule. I'm pretty sure people are still allowed to put in their own dimensions as long as they don't exceed the box size.

[Kappa]

I only noticed the expand/collapse feature when I went to see what Moriwen was talking about, so that's why I mentioned my impression of it now. XD

[Moriwen]

Oh, teeny tiny thing: when you open the dropdown to change characters, clicking anywhere else will close it again, as I'd expect; the same does not hold for the dropdown to change aliases, and there you have to click on the open-dropdown button again to hide the dropdown menu if you opened it in error.

[Ezra]

Will it do something reasonable if you attach a little image that shouldn't stretch to fill the entire post width?

[pedromvilar]

@Pedro did the thing, hopefully it helps (deep link), I did not alter the RTF editor I just made a CSS rule. I'm pretty sure people are still allowed to put in their own dimensions as long as they don't exceed the box size.

That particular image looks fixed, but I'm not sure what thing was done? When I add an image to a post it still seems to set a width and a height on the HTML, unless the page then displays that differently somehow?