Forum News discussion/feedback thread

[Tanni]

Is it possible to scale down the pie charts in the ''View first unread post Statistics thread for your amusement!'' thread? Or any other picture in a size exceeding the normal size of a thread post in x coordinate?

[Ahzoh]

I have a suggestion to the board.
When we write a message, it would be good to have a box with IPA symbols to insert into the message. They would be inserted with a way similar to how emoticons are inserted.
IPA symbols are not difficult to support because they are supported by UTF8.

Yes.

[thaen]

I have a suggestion to the board.
When we write a message, it would be good to have a box with IPA symbols to insert into the message. They would be inserted with a way similar to how emoticons are inserted.
IPA symbols are not difficult to support because they are supported by UTF8.

Yes.

I third this

[Lambuzhao]

I have a suggestion to the board.
When we write a message, it would be good to have a box with IPA symbols to insert into the message. They would be inserted with a way similar to how emoticons are inserted.
IPA symbols are not difficult to support because they are supported by UTF8.

Yes.

I third this

And I firth and/or fourth it.

[DesEsseintes]

I have a suggestion to the board.
When we write a message, it would be good to have a box with IPA symbols to insert into the message. They would be inserted with a way similar to how emoticons are inserted.
IPA symbols are not difficult to support because they are supported by UTF8.

Yes.

I third this

And I firth and/or fourth it.

[Egerius]

I have a suggestion to the board.
When we write a message, it would be good to have a box with IPA symbols to insert into the message. They would be inserted with a way similar to how emoticons are inserted.
IPA symbols are not difficult to support because they are supported by UTF8.

Yes.

I third this

And I firth and/or fourth it.

Yup, I like this idea.

[Xonen]

Okay, people, I think we have enough 's now. I'm sure that if it's possible to implement this without doing an insane amount of work, Aszev will consider it. Meanwhile, for those of you that know X-SAMPA, I suggest using his X-SAMPA to IPA converter.

[Ossicone]

Or any of these other options...

viewtopic.php?f=29&t=2655

[Thrice Xandvii]

Are there any rules or suggested guidelines on signature content? I have noticed that some have one or more animated GIFs and/or images that oft outweighs the average post length by a number of lines.

[DesEsseintes]

Are there any rules or suggested guidelines on signature content? I have noticed that some have one or more animated GIFs and/or images that oft outweighs the average post length by a number of lines.

This is particularly irksome when navigating the forum on a mobile device as images keep popping up at slightly delayed intervals messing up the display.

[Xonen]

Are there any rules or suggested guidelines on signature content?

Yes, at the bottom of the post containing the House Rules. However, it doesn't really address this question:

I have noticed that some have one or more animated GIFs and/or images that oft outweighs the average post length by a number of lines.

I personally haven't noticed this to be a problem, but I guess it's worth discussing.

[Thrice Xandvii]

I wouldn't go so far as to say "problem" but I've noticed two or three particular users. I was merely curious if there even was a guideline in the first place.

I would personally suggest no GIFs whatsoever (or mayhap some sort of file size limit to keep the number of frames down, because honestly stuff like moving smileys wouldn't be an issue in my opinion), and no image taller than a typical avatar, so like 100-200ish pixels and something not wide enough to break the horizontal frame. I haven't a clue how wide that is in pixels, though.

[Prinsessa]

That depends on the resolution of your monitor(s) and how wide you've made the browser window.

[Thrice Xandvii]

That depends on the resolution of your monitor(s) and how wide you've made the browser window.

True.

I guess I was thinking in terms of mobile browsing which I do of this site a LOT. And, which, has a fairly small width depending on phone.

[Ossicone]

I've found the gifs to be very annoying and distracting. (Large sig pics can also be a problem but I haven't seen them lately. )

While I wouldn't call the gifs a major issue atm, I wouldn't want more to show up.

[Xonen]

(Large sig pics can also be a problem but I haven't seen them lately. )

I suppose mine might count... And yes, if I visit this site on my phone then I do have to zoom in to view the text (because it automatically tries to fit the images into view, which requires the text to be reduced to tiny dots) - but since I have to do that on most other sites as well, and because it takes all of about half a second, I've never even thought of it as an issue. But I'll take this into consideration when updating my sig (something which is long overdue, anyway).

[Thrice Xandvii]

To me, your sig is at the outer limit of acceptable. (Not that it's in any way up to me.) I've never had an issue with it. Specifically I am thinking of one of our newest members whose name escapes me and Dr. Standish.

[Birdlang]

Who. Me???

[Thrice Xandvii]

Who. Me???

No, it wasn't you.

[Xing]

Should we have any suggestions/guidelines against edit button misuse? I came to think about this when I read this post the conversation thread. It has happened once in a while that someone deletes all the content in his/her posts in one or more threads by replacing them with a smiley or something similar. It can make it more difficult to follow the threads.