Yeah, for now I'm going to turn them off. But, I think they'd look pretty alright after the tread title, if they just blended in visually a little bit more by not being big bright purples.
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Yeah, for now I'm going to turn them off. But, I think they'd look pretty alright after the tread title, if they just blended in visually a little bit more by not being big bright purples.
Hah, I'm pretty much the opposite. I only ever venture into Etc if there's some live thread for a major ongoing news event. Otherwise ERA is purely a gaming forum for me.
Under title is a huge improvement. Giving the option to turn it off is even better. Kudos. Main issue is that the colors/shading could do with a fine tuning, they should either each have their own unique and recognizable color/shade or all be uniform. Like OT is nice and recognizable, News is different, but then Rumors and Spoilers are the same? Could end up with misclicks.
Nah, the response from the admins in the first couple of days was... not good, to put it lightly. Delphine was basically the first person to respond without hostility or just locking threads.
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It's good they still have an effect on thread list when hidden.
Not sure why they have to be different colours, but that's not an imposed eyesore that has to be dealt with anymore. Wouldn't mind knowing the reasoning for making them different colours though.
I'd keep them up if they were a lot smaller and all looked like the rumour tag on light and were transparent in dark.
Good work with the options and response, team and Delphine.
It's good they still have an effect on thread list when hidden.
Not sure why they have to be different colours, but that's not an imposed eyesore that has to be dealt with anymore. Wouldn't mind knowing the reasoning for making them different colours though.
I'd keep them up if they were a lot smaller and all looked like the rumour tag on light and were transparent in dark.
Good work with the options and response, team and Delphine.
Honestly surprised the options are so comprehensive! I was okay with the initial implementation but this is a great improvement.
I think expanding the colour palette of the tags would be nice, as the slightly varying shades/treatments of purple and a few grey tags offer a weird and unclear kind of differentiation. But I also know that a) the site has a strong colour identity already and b) additional colours would be difficult to agree on and maybe would turn more people off.
I think expanding the colour palette of the tags would be nice, as the slightly varying shades/treatments of purple and a few grey tags offer a weird and unclear kind of differentiation. But I also know that a) the site has a strong colour identity already and b) additional colours would be difficult to agree on and maybe would turn more people off.
I'm assuming the first one is for Gaming and the "duplicate" is for EtcetEra. Maybe there should be a break between the two sides with plain text showing which set is for which side. Something like:The "None" option seems to be working for me. Thank you all for the update and communication.
Are the duplicate options in under "Ignored Prefixes" a bug?
Gaming
- News
- Sales
- Rumor
- Spoiler
- OT
EtcetEra
- News
- Spoiler
- Rumor
- OT
Please add a Dragonball tag and a Star Wars tag and then add an option to automatically ignore threads with those specific tags.
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
The under title is better, but I find it still breaks up the scanning of thread titles on a forum page. I would personally prefer them moved out of the default eye line and then if you home in on a thread title, you can flick your eyes right to check the tag.
Disabling them wholesale is an option but I foresee issues where people use the spoiler tag in place of a title warning.
Disabling them wholesale is an option but I foresee issues where people use the spoiler tag in place of a title warning.
Alright, finally rolling this out. I've got a few thoughts of my own.
Different colors made a lot of sense when they were prefixes, since it'd provide easy sorting into different groupings. Now that they're just tags, I think it makes more sense to have them all the same color. I like the purple, maybe we can just do something a little lighter.
And a preliminary tag list I've been spitballing:
Basically, two types of news to cover most of the bases, and then you get more specific with the single-topic tags. Threads would have 2-3 tags at most, ideally.
(The reason US Politics is the only Politics tag on there is because it's the starting point, not because it's the only one. Figure we'd listen to the community and see what other variants you guys feel are most required there).
Another idea we were kicking around that we're not 100% sold on is a [sensitive] tag that could serve as a guideline for discussion and potentially a content/trigger warning. The issue here is, on one hand we want to make sure people can filter out content that's bad for their mental health, but we don't want it to be an asset for the "No PoLiTiCs In My GaMeS" crowd.
Different colors made a lot of sense when they were prefixes, since it'd provide easy sorting into different groupings. Now that they're just tags, I think it makes more sense to have them all the same color. I like the purple, maybe we can just do something a little lighter.
And a preliminary tag list I've been spitballing:
Basically, two types of news to cover most of the bases, and then you get more specific with the single-topic tags. Threads would have 2-3 tags at most, ideally.
(The reason US Politics is the only Politics tag on there is because it's the starting point, not because it's the only one. Figure we'd listen to the community and see what other variants you guys feel are most required there).
Another idea we were kicking around that we're not 100% sold on is a [sensitive] tag that could serve as a guideline for discussion and potentially a content/trigger warning. The issue here is, on one hand we want to make sure people can filter out content that's bad for their mental health, but we don't want it to be an asset for the "No PoLiTiCs In My GaMeS" crowd.
That's just the visual language of thread prefixes on forums using Xenforo/vBulletin/IPB/etc forum software. As far back as I recall, 14 years, thread prefixes have mostly looked the same with one or two exceptions. They were always placed to the left of the thread title and pushed the title further inward. And barring one exception, I've only seen thread prefixes were always colored tags with text inside. The colors would be different depending on the prefix to help distinguish them. That's probably why the different colors were used. Those that are familiar with thread prefixes more or less would probably accept how they've been used before and not seen much of an issue. Until the backlash here I didn't even consider that perhaps they shouldn't be to the left of thread titles.
I would enjoy a way to filter threads by tag.
I would enjoy if gaming news differentiate between consol and PC.
As someone that uses mostly PC I don't care about Playstation exclusives so I'd love if of could filter for PC news.
This would specially helpful as ERA is very Sony centric and it is hard to find non console news
This was going to be my suggestion... the "fixed" version you've posted looks so much nicer than the current one.
Filtering by tags is 100% in the cards, yeah. You can do that now, actually, through your profile.
Adding per-platform tags also looks doable. We don't want the pool to get too huge, since you start running into usability problems ("I can't find the tags I want so I'll just go for something close enough"), but an Xbox, PC, PS, Ninty set seems fine at a glance.
Know what would be really nice? A word filter that we could use to hide threads we don't care about. For example, someone may want to see "US Politics" threads but not ones that have the word "Trump" in it. Giving users the opportunity to filter single words of their choosing like what the script some already use would be great.
Is there a comprehensive list of available tags? And is there a way to suggest a tag for a thread if the OP did not select one? Either for personal use, or if enough people suggest it to get it added to the thread, or a message to the OP as a suggestion to add it.
Otherwise, fantastic work. I can really see it becoming very useful.
Otherwise, fantastic work. I can really see it becoming very useful.
Can talk to the tech team about if it's possible/feasible to implement that natively but it'd be a different system than the tag one. Could always do a Trump tag, but he comes up in a LOT of threads, even ones that aren't explicitly about him. And in the same way, other sensitive topics come up in threads that aren't strictly about them.
I do like the idea, though. It'd be a good way to support members with traumas who want to take a really rigorous approach. I dunno how technically feasible it is, and I am still worried about misuse, though it might be worth it anyway.
I was about to say thanks for your hard work, but now you mention it... /side eye
Thanks to Delphine for the communication and those that made the options happen.