Drolpiraat wrote:Do you know any forum that requires an extension to not look bad? It's a first for me.
Well as a matter of fact, it will still look bad with the extension. It's more like requiring an extension to fit your taste, as smilies just can't look good on non-integer dppx devices. I just don't happen to know a single forum that will look good at 125%.
Drolpiraat wrote:I never "accepted" to use 125% zoom, as I said it is the default for my DPI settings, which were also 125% when I bought this laptop - I didn't change anything. 100% is near unreadable on my screen. I'm sure I'm not the only one with this problem as it's now a very common practice (in Belgium, at least) to sell laptops with 15in screens and a high resolution, with DPI scaling active by default to compensate. I think you are partly confused because I am talking about zoom levels, but this is really just a DPI issue, and it's exactly the same issue as those mobile devices with non-integer DPIs, so the market share isn't as tiny as you assume.
Well, I surely wasn't aware of that, and that's a pretty fucked up idea as almost everything will look crap.
Drolpiraat wrote:If you read my post again, I showed that a few media queries are enough for that. Hell, I'd even be willing to write them for you, they'd be done in 5 minutes.
Yeah, I meant ‘if’ in a general way, should have said ‘since the amount of work is not unreasonable’. If I've made this change I can indeed tune it a bit.
Drolpiraat wrote:Have you tried 125% zoom? It looks like this (scaled up to 200% of what they look like zoomed in, with pixel resize):
I vastly prefer these blurry smilies:
Granted, they're both awful when zoomed in like that, but the blur almost isn't noticeable on my DPI, while the harsh, duplicated outlines and distorted proportions of the pixelated ones are.
Yeah, I've tried it and found it really ugly, but not worse than using aliasing on pixel art.
Drolpiraat wrote:But yeah, again sorry that I appear to have pissed you off with this, it's really the last thing I want to do, especially over something like this. I'll drop the issue if you still feel that the blurry smilies don't look better than the pixelated ones for non-integer DPIs.
Like I said, I'm not angry or anything. I thought the wording was a bit OTT and I've let you know, but I value your opinion and I'm glad that you're sharing it here.
I, personally, don't have a preference. But it doesn't matter anyway, let's just have a small poll, see what people prefer, and the most popular option will be retained. All that matters is that this website is as enjoyable as possible for its users.
I've got two for blurry smilies, any other opinions?
Fifo wrote:Buffer does have a free plan, and there’s also Twitter’s web client and TweetDeck (which I use) if you don’t mind posting manually.
The idea is for publishing to be automated from the RSS feed, and I don't believe that it is included in Buffer's free plan. No point in setting up any other service if I have to do it manually.
Fifo wrote:Also, Humch, I can’t login on the wiki
Well, I can. When's the last time you were able to log in?
Fifo wrote:Rank names seem to appear in PMs, Humch plz fix:
Also, smilies are out of alignment in landscape mode on mobile:
Good ones, will look into it.
Ambidextroid wrote:From what I understand browser zoom is automatically enabled on mobiles now so the site is more mobile friendly, where it used to be a fixed size and looked more like the desktop version. Sometimes I prefer the desktop size but it's not possible to change the page size on mobile as far as I know.
Basically just wondering if it's possible to get the desktop version on mobile?
It has nothing to do with browser zoom, only with the width of your screen. Therefore, you can easily imagine that it's not an easy change. I assume that you'd like to switch to the desktop view in situations where some information has been removed to make space for the rest, such as last posters on the forum index. But clicking a mobile view button won't be any faster than clicking the last post link and both will give you the same information (even more for the latter).
In any case, as I said the way phpBB implemented responsiveness would require major changes to the software to have such a button and there's much more important for us to work on at the moment than rewriting phpBB (though, I'll grant you, it could use a great deal of refactoring
).
Fifo wrote:When donating tings, the description line just says “Donate Tings”.
Well I can always remove the second one but there's not much else to say.
PluMGMK wrote:Actually the gender icons don't look as good on desktop.
I suppose it depends on a lot of factors though, I'm sure Chrome+Win users are laughing at me.
Too bad, could it have something to do with the font rendering of your browser/OS?
Which is, in my opinion, how any UI should be improved!
