They also all appear on Firefox for Android (5.1.1), but the "smaller" (second) blob shows up slightly bigger than the first blob, and also slightly oddly positioned – I assume they're being rendered with different fonts. The smallest blob is indeed the smallest blob. They are, however, colored properly.
The "text mode" symbol doesn't seem to have affected anything. It's probably best to stick to the flags for compatibility purposes, even though the circles would be neat.
(Assuming you mean on the constellation, not here):DanielH wrote:For in-thread comment identification, nobody has commented on my borders idea. Was it universally ignored as a bad idea, or universally assumed to be what would happen? Either way I wanted to test what what it could look like on this forum, but apparently we can’t do text background color, only foreground color, meaning that one of the other ways discussed for in-forum identification would be better by default. I think squares and the flag idea are probably best of those.
Borders seem like they could work, but they'd probably have to be narrow and maybe dashed/faded to prevent them from being visually unappealing/intrusive. Unless you meant a border on the user-box of a post, instead of the whole post, in which case it seems like it might work?
I'd personally prefer colored blobs next to usernames instead of large borders, so if it could be a user-configurable option that'd be nice.
