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Quality of Life Improvements
Lotus
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No.9226
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This is a thread for all of those little features on 4chan, addons, or wherever else that you miss and would like to have here.
126 replies and 32 files omitted.
Pupper
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No.9766
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>>9765
I am open to suggestions. Nothing it set in stone, and I am just testing out a different view setting to try to make it cleaner.
Anonymous
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>>9765
I also prefer plain text descriptions rather than icons.
Pupper
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>>9765
>>9770
Reverted to the ellipsis truncation and included screenshots of how it was so people can give their input.
>pic related the two different view's
Anonymous
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>>9772
Great that the giant hash has been mostly cleaned up since that was the giant fucking file being moaned about, but if that's what it was I think you could just add it like [hash#] and satisfy people who don't like the unicode. It would still be less messy than truncating the string.

I am pretty neutral about it since I dont think I would ever use the hash file over the filename file.
>>9772
I am not neutral about this though, I'd like to see is the filename size/info on the same row as the hash, but right now it's inconsistent on how it's stacked, different sizes, and sets off my autism. Pic2 vs Pic3, Pic4 vs Pic5
Anonymous
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DEATH TO FAT FUCKS.png
dev plz fix
Anonymous
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>>9766
>>9772
Question: what is the purpose of that first hash-link? Why can't the original filename be in that spot?
I see that the original filename, right now, links to a download by original filename, while the hash links to a download by the hash/site filename. I suggest that either
>a: the original filename becomes the default download, with a "hash filename" button next to it or something; or
>b: the current hash download link is still replaced with the actual filename; and add a button to download with original filename next to it (e.g. replace the tiny font text that currently has the original filename with just "(orig)").

Here's a quick devtools mockup of what I mean for option b - both of the links go to the same places they do now (i.e. clicking on "image.png" saves a file called "EA2F....png", and clicking on "(orig)" saves a file called image.png).

Arguably I also find the hash filenames to be pretty useless to save by, but doing it this way will preserve mlpol functionality and even the way 4chan also did it (except 4chan did not have a convenient original-filename download button at all).
Pupper
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No.9776
>>9774
Yes I messed up in one of the css files, but should have been fixed already. Try reload page. If it still is messed up let me know and I will look more into it.
Pupper
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>>9773
>>9775
I will read more closely what you guys wrote after I have eaten and done some irl stuff. Just wanted to post this so you know I am not ignoring, but just a bit temporary preoccupied.
Anonymous
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>>9775
This mockup looks so MUCH better. Holy shit thank you, pretty much exactly like I was trying to get across.

>>9777
Relax I know you're not ignoring stuff, especially after making the changes within minutes and tagging people for feedback.
Anonymous
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No.9779
>>9777
Thank you, and you're good you're insanely responsive. The site is already good quality and we're flooding you with an endless amount of small items to fix-up everywhere, and the motivation with which you're tackling improvement is not going unappreciated.
Anonymous
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is there a option to temporarily hide thread watcher? The thing makes it difficult to long posts
Anonymous
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>>9780
Not yet, but >>9728 mentioned this in the wall of QoL suggestions
>a minimize button for the watcher popup
>A close button on the watcher window, and a way to reopen it
Pupper
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No.9783
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>>9780
>>9781
Forgot to mention I made an "Minimize" option for the Thread Watcher so it is sent up in the top right corner. This setting is saved so next time you load it will be minimized and vice versa. Let me know if I should tweak it more.
Pupper
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No.9784
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>>9775
>Question: what is the purpose of that first hash-link? Why can't the original filename be in that spot?
I can set the original filename in that spot, but sometimes the original filename can be really long. I could do an similar to "save as original" and have "save as timestamp" instead of the hash. But I will do some testing. As it has been hashes for so long some might prefer that as you know if you have saved that image before preventing duplicates, but also some prefer the timeline of saves.

>>9775
>>9773
I will try to do some thinking and mockup and testing to see if I can clean up the file info part.
Anonymous
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No.9786
>>9717
>>9718
>there's a double arrow now
Nice. Bestmod.
Anonymous
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>>9783
I saw it as soon as I came back to check, it looks like it works well. I dont think that part needs anything changes like completely hiding it ala 4chanx and I'm fine with that function as is it now.

For the thread watcher my first feedback I think the glowing red warning is set too low where it is right now (5). Page 9-10 is the typical one as the glowing red purpose for page info was so you could save a thread from getting archived.
BUT this should come with a caveot, have a rule against excessive necrobumps as trolls abused on /mlp/. /mlp/ had punished necrobumping with bans at one point but they stopped giving a damn and the board suffered for it as trolls quickly adapted to update their new slide-strategies bumping all their page9-10 threads around the same time and just leaving it to rot like stale bread.
Pupper
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>>9791
>For the thread watcher my first feedback I think the glowing red warning is set too low where it is right now (5). Page 9-10 is the typical one as the glowing red purpose for page info was so you could save a thread from getting archived.
I will do some tinkering and make "notification" colors better. Also making the watcher itself more conforming (or how to say it) to the different themes.
Anonymous
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>>9724
yessss much needed feature thanks!
Anonymous
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So two things maybe a options toggle for to only see shotened uploaded file and a toggle to have the thread watcher be on the left side?
Pupper
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>>9811
>options toggle for to only see shotened uploaded file
The hash filename was an bug from my side, I had swapped the class on one of the uploads.
>a toggle to have the thread watcher be on the left side
I added an setting in the options menu to set the thread watcher to be on the left side.
Anonymous
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No.9814
>>9813
Thanks again Pupper
Anonymous
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No.9815
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>>9784
>I can set the original filename in that spot, but sometimes the original filename can be really long
Personally, I think the ideal solution would be to have a max limit beyond which it gets truncated with an ellipsis ... , and the full title is in the HTML "title" element to let you hover it.
>as it has been hashes for so long
Perfectly understandable, having an option would please everyone but probably adds an annoying amount of extra work to fit in
>"save as timestamp"
That will be absolutely tremendous if you add it, speaking as a refugee
Pupper
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>>9815
>That will be absolutely tremendous if you add it, speaking as a refugee

Did some updates and added Timestamp download, Cleaned up the file header and some minor tweaks to the file handling.
Anonymous
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>>9530
>>9530
>He delivered
Thread watcher is a game changer and seems to be working well, nice work.
Pupper
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>>9822
Glad you like it. Feel free to give feedback on any improvements or bugs you might encounter.

Going to take a little rest from coding, and then tomorrow try to look over what all have said and my notes on other improvements that are desired.
There is a bug where the "hide image" don't save it to user settings, so on reload the image is show again, but I will look at that tomorrow.
Anonymous
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No.9832
>>9823
By the way, aside from the huge wall of text I posted earlier, having used the thread watcher for a little while now I can say that currently the top really big improvements for usability are:
>1. Auto-refresh the watcher once a thread is marked as "read", so when you scroll down you don't have to also click on the watcher refresh icon to register the thread as read
>2. At least a force-refresh of state when another tab updates it (i.e. reading a thread in one tab would mark it as read in every tab), but you can kill two pegas with one stone by just adding periodic auto-refresh, to also check for new posts every n seconds without having to again manually refresh the watcher
>... gap in priority here...
>3. An option to auto-watch threads on reply
Roughly in order of priority. Right now it works great but it's a bit clunky to use across multiple tabs due to how manual the refreshes are, so having it automatically take into account once you scrolled a thread would be a game-changer, and having it passively auto-update in the background would be another one. (Would probably need some extra logic though to make sure out-of-focus tabs don't all spam refresh requests for all threads all the time.)
Anonymous
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>>9823
Ok, so after using it a bit:
- scrolling should be instant instead of smooth scrolling
- should highlight the first unread comment (same as #postid does in the url)
- longer thread names should be shortened instead of braking it into multiple lines
Anonymous
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Can we do something about the current state of /vx/? Threads from 8 years ago are still on the catalog.
Anonymous
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No.9853
I like the overboard but it doesn't actually show ALL the latest posts on the this chan. If the thread is autosaging it doesn't show up on the top of the list as the latest most recent post. I don't know if this is working as intended or something that is warranted for a change, but something I noticed.
Anonymous
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Love the thread wather. What do people think about having the originating board of the watched thread on the left, instead of the right like in the second picture?
Pupper
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>>9851
>>9858
Did some improvements to the thread watcher. It should now update across tabs when you update it in one. Also added an option to add "remove" button next to thread links so you can easily remove from there. Also moved the /board/ to the front of links.
Will do some more tinkering later on improvements in other areas of thread watcher, scroll to last read and other areas.
Anonymous
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>>9862
Thanks for that Pupper, I appreciate it. Doing {YOUR_FAVOURITE_PONE}s work. I suppose it depends on the resolution of someones monitor or it's orientation but you can keep adding threads to the watcher past where you can interact with it, though I doubt there will be many people with a list as long as picrel.
Anonymous
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No.9864
>>9863
As an aside, all tabs updated when removing all those threads from the watcher, so that works as intended.
Anonymous
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>>9852
It's a ded board, what did you expect? most people looking to get /v/ probably don't even know what /vx/ is and assume it's not vidya.
>>9823
Good work, lots of little QoL bumps over the week, even if the refugees are gone this was worth it.
Pupper
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>>9863
Fixed it so you now get scroll if list it longer than screen height.
Anonymous
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>>9867
Yep, that checks out.
>>9865
>refugees are gone this was worth it.
I ain't going back. You can't make me. I claim asylum.
Anonymous
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>>9868
Asylum is for people who need to justify their presence, you are welcome and needn't
Anonymous
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>>9869
Anonymous
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>>9870
Only just noticed this.
Pupper
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>>9871
I added that icon due to the way resize of textarea works in the Quickreply (resize the quickreply dialog box), and people had trouble finding out how. I added it in hope that it would be a little guide/hint. It has not been there for long so could be reason you didn't notice it before.
Anonymous
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Here's another frequently used QoL suggestion while you nail down the thread watcher.

Thread hiding from the catalog.
>Either with a [hide] button next to the others like [last 50] or with Shift+Click.

It looks like nhnb does have it but the function is broken, no surprises there. It can hide threads, but never keeps track of it in the filter list. So if you accidentally hide a thread, you're just permanently going to live with that. And if you wanted to hide a thread for a while, but look at it later can't do that either.
Anonymous
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No.9874
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>>9872
It's a nice addition, truth be told. The standard size of the QR box shrinks when you add a picture, which is confusing for a new user. Thank you.
>>9873
When I want to hide a thread, I don't plan on revisiting it afterward, though a catalogue hide button would be helpful for the inevitable shitposting that'll be incumen in.
Anonymous
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>>9874
>When I want to hide a thread, I don't plan on revisiting it afterward,
Granted, that is usually how most people will use it. Though for nhnb it was just testing out the function and now that thread is gone like a blackhole to me.
Anonymous
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>>9875
Clear your cache, if that doesn't work then try another browser in private mode and report back.
Anonymous
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>>9876
It worked, thread that was hidden was brought back when I cleared browser settings. However, ALL of the watched threads I had were deleted with it too. I genuinely do not like anything about that board, it's made with spaghettis code and run by a team of aspies.

At least now I might know why the thread watcher would fail at random, it was probably cache/cookie related. And all the threads I watched from here are gone too, but the ones on 4chanX remain even if I clear the browser data. This could also be why people were complaining about watched threads here not working right, more browser hiccups
Anonymous
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No.10007
>>9872
I confused the icon with my cursor
Anonymous
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Ruffle can run flash embeds on modern browsers.

>>>/poner/8800 →
Anonymous
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If you get around to an auto-updating a thread watcher...
8moe has a counter for unread updates in their thread watcher. With the watcher set to minimized here it could benefit from a similar update like [(#) TW] the # being how many threads have updates since last opened.
Anonymous
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No.10065
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just move the t&c.png
like that.png
Pardon, but might I make a suggestion?
Anonymous
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No.10089
>>10065
Seconding.

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