✅ Forum Migration To Do List

[Panther]

Just for your info, @djensen , this issue is not primarily an issue of the badges, but of the complete line that includes the badges.

For example: If you answer to someone with a long username (like in this case), you need to reduce your badges to prevent from the display problem.

Maybe it is worth pointing out to the communitiy that showing too many badges leads to the display problem due to this bug.

[Churchillian.Drift]

Not sure if this has already been brought up, but right now all profiles show an “Age” category, which appears to be set to 17 for everyone. Is this intentional?

[Panther]

@Churchillian-Drift In case you had set your birthday in your profile before, it has been taken over during the migration. You can edit your birthday in your profile when choosing “Edit”. This setting is relevant for the “Age”.

[djensen]

@Churchillian-Drift said in Forum Migration To Do List:

Not sure if this has already been brought up, but right now all profiles show an “Age” category, which appears to be set to 17 for everyone. Is this intentional?

I’ll add this to the list.

[CWO Marc]

@djensen said in Forum Migration To Do List:

@Panther said in Forum Migration To Do List:

So the task is to find a solution for correctly displaying text when many badges are present.

Not a task for us, that’s a bug and needs to be reported to the NodeBB team.

Hmm…interesting problem. It would be nice if the NodeBB folks could find a solution to this problem, such as by having an excessively long line of badges display as two superimposed shorter lines if it goes over a certain length limit. Badges are an incentive for members to donate funding to support the forum, and it would be a shame (and ironic) if contributors ended up having to hide the record of those incentives because of a design problem in the software of the very forum that they’re supporting. A further irony is that the members most affected by the problem would mainly be the ones who have the longest record of supporting the site.

[djensen]

@CWO-Marc I think we have a unique use of badges in our community. BGG aside most other services just give you a badge for your subscription period and don’t date stamp it. What I would like is tick marks (maybe 3-5 pixels wide) for “hidden” badges and they expand when you roll over them. So you could have 1-2 primary badges and the rest are small blocks of color.

[barnee]

@djensen was just gonna say change the heart icon, but it’s your site, so I gave you a heart upvote : )

[djensen]

@barnee The up-chevron (basically a caret ^) wasn’t obvious enough. I considered a thumbs up icon but that seemed to Facebook-y.

The only thing left is hearts and stars. I feel that since other sites use hearts to “favorite” things, it would be instantly understandable. It also creates a positive feeling and I want to promote positive attitudes in the community.

So … reasons.

[djensen]

@barnee said in Forum Migration To Do List:

so I gave you a heart upvote : )

See, you don’t like it but your reaction was still positive. It’s not a coincidence. :wink:

[aequitas-et-veritas]

@djensen good morning.
I was wondering if i can change the setting for notifications?
Right now it still Shows unread posts i am not even interested in to read.
I set allready up on wich one i will follow, but there are still over 60 unread ones.
(In the left coloum where the categories are)

Or do i have to at least click them ones so they disapear and only the ones i follow Pop up as new and unread??
Thank you in advance for your answer.

[barnee]

@djensen yea the ^ thingy doesn’t really look that good. Hearts it is : )

[djensen]

@aequitas-et-veritas For “Unread” posts on the left (inbox), not that I know of but I’m looking into it. What I’m doing is this. Click the photo to see the animation:

Oops, didn’t mean to clear the last one. (Went and read it anyway)

For alerts (bell), yes. You can change this in your settings. Upper right, click your avatar, click settings, and there is a section for notifications.

[aequitas-et-veritas]

@djensen
Ahh cool will look into this.

[aequitas-et-veritas]

Yes, that was exactly what i was looking for.
🙌🏽🙅🏾‍♂️

[simon33]

So aren’t we waiting for 5.2.2 of the posting plugin to be installed? Or has that been done.

[CWO Marc]

@djensen said in Forum Migration To Do List:

@CWO-Marc I think we have a unique use of badges in our community. BGG aside most other services just give you a badge for your subscription period and don’t date stamp it. What I would like is tick marks (maybe 3-5 pixels wide) for “hidden” badges and they expand when you roll over them. So you could have 1-2 primary badges and the rest are small blocks of color.

Yes, our community’s use of badges does resemble what could be called the “Marshal Zhukov aesthetic” (a uniform covered in medals, orders and decorations), which isn’t surprising in view of the WWII theme of A&A.

At any rate, your idea to have the badges normally display as small images which could individually expand to full size (such as when you roll over them or put your pointer on them) sounds like a good approach. Rather than using an abstract tick mark, however, I’d suggest using some sort of small circular rosette, which would be similar to the practice which is often used for civilian decorations: the full-sized decoration is only worn on certain formal occasions, but in day-to-day life the recipient can wear a miniature version of the insignia, which is essentially a lapel pin. See the attached picture as an example. The full-sized A&A badge could (and I think should) keep its traditional horizontal rectangular form, which has the advantage of being similar to a military service ribbon but has the disadvantage of having a space-consuming shape even when it’s reduced to a tiny icon.

[CWO Marc]

To follow up on my last post, here’s a rough example of what the miniature rosette concept would look like. I used my own string of badges as a prototype, and the mini version ended up being about 50% shorter than the full-sized string. The minis are squared-off versions of the rectangular badges, which actually works better than circular rosettes – it’s equivalent in compactness, and it reflects more effectively the angular (rather than circular) shape of the full-sized badges.

[djensen]

@simon33 said in Forum Migration To Do List:

So aren’t we waiting for 5.2.2 of the posting plugin to be installed? Or has that been done.

5.2.2 is ready but hasn’t been pushed to npm. :disappointed:

Update:* we have 5.2.2 now.

[djensen]

@CWO-Marc This was what I was thinking. Looks like I won’t be able to do this in CSS so it will require some forum or theme changes.

[Panther]

A feature request for the To Do List:

On triplea-game.org forums when I reference an external website, I most of the time see a small preview image.

For example when referencing a Github issue, with
https://github.com/triplea-game/triplea/issues/4186
it immediately shows a preview image of the referenced item under the URL:

Clicking inside the image brings me directly to the issue on Github, there.

On our forum I only see the written URL.

Is this a setting or a plugin worth to be included here?