On Tuesday, 19 January 2016 at 07:21:09 UTC, Puming wrote:
> On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 10:20:13 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
>> As the new design rolled out on dlang.org, I decided to push the changes on forum.dlang.org as well. From what I gathered from the previous feedback thread, I believe we've addressed the most stringent issues. Once again thanks to anonymous / @aG0aep6G for doing practically all the work, and to everyone who's provided feedback so far.
>
> I often found that I have to hover mouse on the title when viewing "Last Post" on the forum index pages, and think that is a bit annoying.
>
> The "Group" column is very wide, with not any content.
>
> So I changed the css a little and get this looking:
>
> http://imgur.com/MxJJURL
>
> Now "Last Post" column is at the center of focus and most of the times the title is shown wholy.

The reason for why the widths are as they are right now:

1. The group descriptions are only shown on the index page. The full post titles, however, can be seen on click or hover.

2. The table and its contents needs to look fine at all window widths.

3. The "Last Post" column's main purpose is to see at a glance whether there has been any activity in the corresponding group since your last visit. The most important parts of it is the timestamp and whether the last post has been read or not.

The post shown there is not selected by some criteria of popularity or importance; for more high-traffic groups, it is essentially a random selection from the active threads.

As such, attempts to put more focus on the "Last post" column to me seem frankly illogical.

> As for the subtitle in "Group" columns, I think you can make it a hover tip instead of directly displaying.

The group names are extremely succinct as they are. The descriptions are of critical importance for new visitors.

i really like the new design, congratulations!

the only thing missing is proper code formatting with highlighting

On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 20:32:50 UTC, wobbles wrote:
> On the reddit thread, a bug in safari was posted:
> "
> I found a bug on Safari 7.1.3: each time I click the "Edit" button for the code editor, the gray panel with the code it in gets longer, and pushes the rest of the content in the site down. Here's an album with the before/after screenshots. http://imgur.com/a/TIylc
> "
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/41j1nm/check_out_ds_new_site/cz32v1v

I have no idea what caused it, but updating CodeMirror fixes it:

https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1206

On 2016-01-18 21:32, wobbles wrote:

> On the reddit thread, a bug in safari was posted:
> "
> I found a bug on Safari 7.1.3: each time I click the "Edit" button for
> the code editor, the gray panel with the code it in gets longer, and
> pushes the rest of the content in the site down. Here's an album with
> the before/after screenshots. http://imgur.com/a/TIylc
> "
> https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/41j1nm/check_out_ds_new_site/cz32v1v

It's really weird. It adds padding, but I cannot modify the padding using the developer tools in the browser. Hmm, seems to only occur when "display" is set to "table-cell".

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On 2016-01-19 09:09, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:

> I have no idea what caused it, but updating CodeMirror fixes it:
>
> https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/dlang.org/pull/1206

Hmm, seems to only occur when "display" is set to "table-cell" for the element with id "your-code-here".

-- 
/Jacob Carlborg

On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 10:20:13 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> 1. Font
>
> A few people mentioned that they found the new font (Roboto Slab) difficult to read. Some questions:
>
> a) The same font is also used for nearly everything on dlang.org. Does your complaint also apply to the main website (i.e. should we consider changing the font on dlang.org)?

Yes. I suppose serif fonts are ok for high DPI devices like laser printer, but on low DPI devices like LCD they don't get enough dots to render all their features. Also this font is rendered wrong for me: it uses variable stroke width for letters and it looks weird: http://abload.de/img/tmpy8oy2.png see letters o, d, n, m.

On Tuesday, 19 January 2016 at 10:16:44 UTC, Kagamin wrote:
> Yes. I suppose serif fonts are ok for high DPI devices like laser printer, but on low DPI devices like LCD they don't get enough dots to render all their features.

It isn't only serifs. In general, the system supplied helvetica-like font is more likely to be tailored for pixel rendering at common sizes, so "sans-serif" is what one want on bread-text for good legibility. But Roboto looks cluttered at any resolution...

On 1/18/16, Vladimir Panteleev via Digitalmars-d <digitalmars-d@puremagic.com> wrote:
> As the new design rolled out on dlang.org, I decided to push the changes on forum.dlang.org as well.

Hitting backspace doesn't seem to make the browser open the previous page (Firefox 42.0). I don't know whether this is new behavior though.

On Tuesday, 19 January 2016 at 07:15:44 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:

> That's really weird. Unfortunately I don't know how to reproduce this, and I don't know what's going on. I would suggest experimenting with it yourself.

It works now.

On Tuesday, 19 January 2016 at 04:53:01 UTC, Vladimir Panteleev wrote:
> On Monday, 18 January 2016 at 20:51:23 UTC, Nick Treleaven wrote:
>> This would really help on my nexus tablet, it's painful selecting a text block of lines that flow off the visible screen.
>
> Where does that happen?

Sorry, I wasn't clear. I don't think it's a problem with the forum, more just that editing a big block of text to remove some unnecessary quoted lines is awkward due to browser/WM. If I could just select the lines I want to reply to, then hit Reply, I wouldn't have to remove a block of quoted lines, which is tricky (I have to do it in stages, tapping and holding on a word to bring up the selection then dragging the caret cursors, then repeating several times for lines currently off screen).