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[Idea] Bringing in some usability~

Sir Frosthaven·9/24/2013, 11:32:22 AM·5 votes·376 views

So you guys have heard a good bit of my feedback, I'm sure! I wanted to say that the new community platform is slowly growing on me, but I wanted to take my own spin on things and so I went to work in my jquery environment to override some display settings. You can see a screenshot of the working script attached below.

What I wanted to accomplish was the following:

  • Bring familiar controls to the new platform
  • There is a reason why X is jump in most video games
  • Users that are new to the site can take advantage of the new platform with a lot of the burden of knowledge taken out (behaves like the new platform, but doesn't look like a copy of reddit)
  • Make a more user-friendly layout that allows for more viewing space
  • It's completely fluid - if you resized the page the content would stretch
  • This script adds full-row-select, meaning if you hover anywhere over a given row it will light up the post row you are over slightly, and clicking anywhere on the row will take you to the forum post.
  • Combine & compact interface elements to minimize wasted space
  • Moved the sub-forum links into a "filter" by the recent/hot/etc sort dropdown. This also doubles as an indicator to let you know which board you are on.
  • Added the search bar to the header list
  • Added the make new post to the header list

I feel like this working script that I have accomplishes a lot to not only ease the burden of knowledge for newer users but increase productivity and allow for a more robust layout going forward. Let me know what you think!

8 Comments

Sir Frosthaven9/24/2013, 6:31:12 PM4 votes

I'm going to be honest - where it says "Last Post" is actually the "Post Starter". I didn't realize until you guys mentioned it that we don't have a "Last Post" and I simply mislabeled it. I could get it to load the last poster by checking the link in the background, but that'd be way too much overhead for such a simple request.

Let's get some last post love, reds! (even if it is just WHEN the last post was made and not WHO) :D

ModCaptainMårvelous9/24/2013, 4:30:14 PM3 votes

Hey cool actual feedback. A lot of these I actually already suggested, like removing the formatting guide and just adding in buttons for quick format (Similar to the bold command on a forum) and changing the layout based on certain subforums. (Such as content submission for fan stuff).

Hope I see you around more Frost. If I remember correctly you fixed FEK and it'd be really awesome to see you on this more!

Pryotra9/24/2013, 2:24:49 PM2 votes

It looks awesome Frost, gonna play with it more when I got some time.

AnonTwo9/24/2013, 1:50:16 PM1 votes

That is slightly more tolorable. And i was actually finding myself pretty frustrated by the lackof a "last poster"

Most of the time i can't even tell if these threads are getting bumped because someone posted, or because someone just upvoted the thread.

With that look, i think the only major concern left is the way thread bumping works.

Bl3u9/24/2013, 6:17:39 PM1 votes

Nice Frost! I really like the sub-community filter and adding the "last post by" information back in. I think this layout is a good way to make this community feel more familiar to users coming from the forums. The only negative feedback I have for it is that the it doesn't feel quite as sleek as what Riot has made. I think this is mostly because of the grid-layout you have going on for each threads. Maybe you can consider trying to find a way to display that same information while maintaining a sleeker look?

If I get some time i'll try to come up with a mock, but I'm currently at work so I should probably do some actual work first >.>