Timeline for Left nav, responsive design, and theming next steps
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| Apr 29, 2018 at 18:45 | comment | added | Christian Rau | In case they're really hesitant to this, here's an attempt at somewhat of a compromise: meta.stackexchange.com/a/309608/162011. | |
| Apr 28, 2018 at 13:07 | comment | added | Christian Rau | @CreationEdge In fact this was pretty much what they were already doing anyway. Even when they still did actual designs the later designs were quite toned down with regards to the custom vote/favourite/accept buttons. (Of course they still didn't snatch them from the sites that already had them, though.) | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 17:19 | comment | added | user287266 | @JoeFriend Thank you for the follow-up. I think those things were probably mentioned or hinted at in the other posts, but there's a lot out there and your concise reply is what I was hoping to find. | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 17:01 | comment | added | Joe Friend StaffMod | @CreationEdge The existing themes are based on the old design and need to be adapted to support the left nav. In addition to that the old designs have created problems for us in terms of releasing new features in the past. Thus, SO gets somethings, but none of the other sites do. In addition, building a similar level of theming for each additional site that currently is using the "vanilla" theme is not possible due to the amount of work/level of theming that is supported. So, the decision was a combo of the things you mentioned. | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 16:43 | comment | added | user287266 | @JoeFriend Is the purpose behind that decision specifically to unify the network appearance (and if so, has any analysis been done that indicates that will achieve the desired effect?), or because developing new themes for new stacks takes too much time, or simply some other technical reason? Considering that existing images are already there, I'm still trying to understand the thought process behind not grandfathering them in for existing, themed stacks and just using the default for all new graduated sites. | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 14:43 | comment | added | Joe Friend StaffMod | @Randal'Thor I do understand the ask. My last comment was in reference to the other comments above. Unfortunately for custom button lovers the answer is still the same. We're going to keep the core UX elements consistent across the sites. | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 14:21 | comment | added | Rand al'Thor | @JoeFriend Not sure if you're misinterpreting the main point of this answer. The way I interpret it, this isn't primarily a site-specific request, but a general feature-request to keep custom vote buttons as well as custom badges, since they're all stored in the same file. (CreationEdge, correct me if I'm wrong.) | |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 14:20 | history | edited | Rand al'Thor | CC BY-SA 3.0 | emphasised main point |
| Apr 27, 2018 at 3:54 | comment | added | Kevin | @JoeFriend: Thanks, I posted a bit of kremlinology on the SFF.SE meta. If you think I badly misinterpreted something, please let me know and I'll fix it. | |
| Apr 26, 2018 at 17:11 | comment | added | Joe Friend StaffMod | We will post proposed redesigns for each site in that sites meta for feedback. The feedback we will be looking for are related to the specifics of that design (color, font choices, etc). It won't be helpful to get a bunch of feedback on the level of theming supported since we won't be making changes related to that on a site-by-site basis. The images and deck in the original post will be helpful in understanding the detatils (this image in particular) | |
| Apr 26, 2018 at 16:57 | comment | added | Secespitus | For reference I created a similar question to yours on WorldBuilding.Meta. Thanks for making me aware! | |
| Apr 26, 2018 at 14:57 | comment | added | Monica Cellio | Worldbuilding would like to know what we'll be losing, too. Some of the mockups in the earlier post used our site, but there are outstanding questions. | |
| Apr 26, 2018 at 14:27 | history | answered | user287266 | CC BY-SA 3.0 |