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New Feature & Update: Tags!
- Thread starter Delphine
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Appreciate your opening statement and response in general + the options Delphine. Thanks!
I think the under titles option looks so, so much better. Great work there. The difference between shades on the tags can be quite subtle between certain tags (at least on my screen), and coupled with the fact that some different tags share the same color, maybe it would be good to try the same color and shade for all tags?
I think the under titles option looks so, so much better. Great work there. The difference between shades on the tags can be quite subtle between certain tags (at least on my screen), and coupled with the fact that some different tags share the same color, maybe it would be good to try the same color and shade for all tags?
Sorry to be annoying but I don't see the option on the top editing tools or the bottom threadmark/thread submitting options when I edit. Is it a code I add to the post? Or something that shows up after you click "save"?
How about just having "LIVE", for anything that's playing Live (can be a political live feed or something), and turn it off when it's over?
Under the thread titles is much muuuuccch better! However, after leaving them on for a while, I personally found them a bit too busy still with such bold coloring, so I ultimately turned them off (srsly, thank y'all so much for making that an option!).
I dunno how much tweaking plans there are but if y'all made a version of the tags where they were all a single neutral color (something like the grey of the rumor tag, and how it looks nice and subtle when on the light theme) then they would be legit perfect for me and I'd leave them on. I just prefer the simple, clean readability of text only forum thread lists, so the bright purple tags are a lot. And that way I could still easily check what tag a thread falls under, without the tags distracting me when I'm skimming through the thread titles.
I dunno how much tweaking plans there are but if y'all made a version of the tags where they were all a single neutral color (something like the grey of the rumor tag, and how it looks nice and subtle when on the light theme) then they would be legit perfect for me and I'd leave them on. I just prefer the simple, clean readability of text only forum thread lists, so the bright purple tags are a lot. And that way I could still easily check what tag a thread falls under, without the tags distracting me when I'm skimming through the thread titles.
Seems workable. We'd want to try and limit most threads that could go live to 3 tags.
A great balance. As someone who likes the tags visually for instant confirmation that a story is factual or rumored is very helpful. Love the option for people who don't like the change though.
While I wish communication had been better when this started, I'm very happy that the feedback was taken, and there are multiple options AND a detailed post explaining everything. I had been using adblock extensions to block out the tags, I will be taking those off and trying the different options.
That would be great, because the existing userscript method of ignoring threads by keyword doesn't really work reliably, at least not in Firefox. It uses a temporary storage location for your settings, so they can be erased by the browser without warning.
Looks good! With the tag under the thread title, it doesn't mess with the spacing caused by having the Hide Thread script installed.
First, thank you staff for making this thread and directing people towards it. Having a place to spitball and talk about the feature seems to have produced generally helpful or positive results so I hope this encourages a similar approach in the future.
Second, thank you for the quick updates to the feature! Under the title is great and is an immediate improvement. I echo what Poodlestrike said and think turning all tags into one color would actually help with quickly scrolling and parsing the different forums.
Second, thank you for the quick updates to the feature! Under the title is great and is an immediate improvement. I echo what Poodlestrike said and think turning all tags into one color would actually help with quickly scrolling and parsing the different forums.
Thanks for the post and for adding options. It's very appreciated. I also really like that more tags are planned to being added; that will definitely increase their usefulness.
A suggestion: I don't know if it's feasible, but an option to remove tags from the Alerts dropdown would be welcomed. Because nothing there is aligned, the purple dots scattered around causes the same visual distraction as having them at the front of thread titles. It's not as big of an issue as when they were at the beginning of titles, so I'll understand if it's something that just has to be lived with, but I would be very grateful if there was an option to hide them there, too.
I would like to second this suggestion. If it's possible, of course.
I'd prefer for a display option that is just text with no colour like "[Tag] This is the Tag-Thread" (or even better with the colourless tag below the thread title.
As for additional tags, I'd love one to filter out all those "Would you rather do insane choice A or insane choice B" off topic threads, as well something to filter out short ramblings from people.
And to perhaps also move a bit more away from megathreads, how about giving the individual sports their own tags? I'd love a slightly more focussed approach on individual news rather than having everything be centered in the Hangouts-threads inbetween regulars of the thread debating their favourite movie, song, car in between of actual talk about sports news. Tags could be a great aid for that without disturbing the flow for other people. But then again I don't care about some sports, and could filter those out too to not clutter the thread list.
And in general a tag about the kind of content of a thread like positive/negative? Maybe one for (famous peoples) deaths.
As for additional tags, I'd love one to filter out all those "Would you rather do insane choice A or insane choice B" off topic threads, as well something to filter out short ramblings from people.
And to perhaps also move a bit more away from megathreads, how about giving the individual sports their own tags? I'd love a slightly more focussed approach on individual news rather than having everything be centered in the Hangouts-threads inbetween regulars of the thread debating their favourite movie, song, car in between of actual talk about sports news. Tags could be a great aid for that without disturbing the flow for other people. But then again I don't care about some sports, and could filter those out too to not clutter the thread list.
And in general a tag about the kind of content of a thread like positive/negative? Maybe one for (famous peoples) deaths.
Thanks for the options. Too many tags being used to the point that I don't find them useful. So I have turned them off.
Already on the list!
Current plan is to have one common pool of tags between both forums.
I want to say thank you for creating this thread and listening to the feedback of members. I enjoyed the tags from the get go, but I really like that they're under the thread title now. At this point, we need more tags (which you guys are working on) and more colors or neutral colors for the tags. I know purple is part of the color scheme for the site, but some hues of purple hurt my eyes or don't mesh well with dark mode.
Honestly all of these tags (except Eminem and TLOU/Naughty Dog) should be added. Most of these hit the general topics.
Here's some more to possibly add:
Art
Programming (could fall under the Help/Advice tag)
Giveaway (used for one off giveaway threads outside of the main giftbot thread)
Tech News (this could be useful if we decide to get rid of the general News tag)
Opinion (for things that aren't really news, website opinion pieces. Perhaps there's a better name for this tag?)
I think that's all I have for now. I'll make another post if I can think of more, but I think the initial list is really good.
Honestly all of these tags (except Eminem and TLOU/Naughty Dog) should be added. Most of these hit the general topics.
Here's some more to possibly add:
Art
Programming (could fall under the Help/Advice tag)
Giveaway (used for one off giveaway threads outside of the main giftbot thread)
Tech News (this could be useful if we decide to get rid of the general News tag)
Opinion (for things that aren't really news, website opinion pieces. Perhaps there's a better name for this tag?)
I think that's all I have for now. I'll make another post if I can think of more, but I think the initial list is really good.
My one thing with a tag called "opinion" is that it sorta leaks into other threads we have that're just... the user's opinions. Feels like that kind of thing can get covered by the title and the absence of a news tag.
That's understandable, I was thinking the same thing when I wrote the tag. That's why I was thinking a different word would better convey the idea that "This thread is about an opinion piece, not your personal opinion". Feel free not to add it to the list.
Thank you kindly for offering up different options, accessibility is always key to making an experience unique to the user and their browsing interests. I hope to see more of this communication in the future as it's wonderful to have discussions like these be available.
I wasn't really sure what I could positively contribute to the list of tags until I read the list of suggested ones. And it hit me like a ton of bricks.
There needs to be a Kanye tag.
There needs to be a Kanye tag.
Under the title is a huge improvement.
This is possibly something that only I'd want, but could the filter have an option to also display threads with no tags? So I could for example filter it to see Sales, News and everything without a tag?
There is the ignore option in preferences but that seems to be a global setting?
This is possibly something that only I'd want, but could the filter have an option to also display threads with no tags? So I could for example filter it to see Sales, News and everything without a tag?
There is the ignore option in preferences but that seems to be a global setting?
If anyone wants to adjust the colors, it's actually pretty easy to do with the browser extension Stylus. (sorry for the light theme)
The background / border-colors are just transparent there, but you can change them to whatever fits your theme.
Thanks to less for the help on the OT tag šš¾
Code:
.label {padding: 0px;}
.label.label--primary,.label.label--silver,.label.label--prefixGradient {
color: #8f65c7;
background: transparent;
border-color: transparent;
font-size: 100%;
}
a.label.label--primary:hover, a:hover .label.label--primary {
background: transparent;
border-color: transparent;
}
a.label.label--silver:hover, a:hover .label.label--silver {
background: transparent;
border-color: transparent;
}
a:hover .label.label--prefixGradient
{
background: transparent !important;
}The background / border-colors are just transparent there, but you can change them to whatever fits your theme.
Thanks to less for the help on the OT tag šš¾
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Hmm... I think I'd kinda like to see this happen, but I definitely could see it backfiring as well.
My feeling is that beyond being useful as a warning, there's cases where using it could probably help pre-empt driveby whining/shitposting, since it helps establish that it's a serious discussion and should stay that way, and does that without requiring a staff post. But of course that also means it could be abused just as easily by people who just want to control a discussion and force something bad to be treated seriously, right? So that's tough...
This is excellent. Thank you!If anyone wants to adjust the colors, it's actually pretty easy to do with the browser extension Stylus. (sorry for the light theme)
Code:.label {padding: 0px;} .label.label--primary,.label.label--silver,.label.label--prefixGradient { color: #8f65c7; background: #8050bf00; border-color: #673ba100; font-size: 12px; } a.label.label--primary:hover, a:hover .label.label--primary { background: #7543b700; border-color: #5e359200; } a.label.label--silver:hover, a:hover .label.label--silver { background: #7543b700; border-color: #5e359200; }
The background / border-colors are just transparent there, but you can change them to whatever fits your theme. I'm having a bit of trouble figuring out how to change the hover on OT, but I'll get there eventually.
CSS:
a:hover .label.label--prefixGradient
{
background: transparent !important;
}The above should do the trick. Edit as you please.