Websnark

Comment from: John posted at August 24, 2005 10:08 AM

You can do a lot of damage by mucking about in those Movable Type templates. Fortunately it's all fairly easy to fix, once you understand the tags.

And breaking everything is a great way to learn what they do!

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at August 24, 2005 10:28 AM

I did the best damage possible -- I accidentally overwrote my Main Index template with the stylesheet.

So yeah. The changes to the Main Index (like the graphic and all the links to bits and pieces in the system) were all redone... well, last night. (I was fortunately able to get a cached copy that had the primary link information. It of course didn't have the MT provided sidebar info, but that was easy enough to recreate.)

Comment from: Paul Gadzikowski posted at August 24, 2005 10:56 AM

Like others, I didn't see the new style till I hit refresh. That isn't going to happen every time we come to the site, is it? Maybe I'll go away and come back, and see.

Also, I'll take this opportunity to restate my request that comments be made searchable. Wednesday seemed to think it a worthwhile innovation and doable, perhaps, when I asked before.

Comment from: Kludge posted at August 24, 2005 11:07 AM

Is it just me, or is anyone else finding the dark line separating comment from commentee (or post from poster/comments link on the main page) slightly confusing?

Things are being grouped visually that shouldn't be grouped.

Comment from: 32_footsteps posted at August 24, 2005 11:18 AM

Admittedly, it would be easier to have the line breaks differently, after the poster's name instead of after the post. It does look like the name at the top is the poster, not the previous poster.

Comment from: Dave Van Domelen posted at August 24, 2005 12:08 PM

While you're repairing damage from ground up, would it be possible to have commenter names above their comments, rather than after? When it's a long thread, I tend to cherrypick comments by people I know have interesting things to say, which requires a lot of back and forth when the name isn't on the same page as the start of the comment.

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at August 24, 2005 12:22 PM

Kludge and Dave: how's this for service? Work better?

Comment from: Matt Sweeney posted at August 24, 2005 1:06 PM

Anyone care to bet on how long before Eric gets fed up with us?

On that note, any chance we could get the line back? It cut the comments up really nicely. Just wondering, because 'design by committee' is always such a great way to get good designs. :)

Comment from: TheNintenGenius posted at August 24, 2005 1:09 PM

I don't know. I'm thinking it looks good enough as it is right now. The line was indeed nice, but that just might cause some confusion again about where the post divisions fall.

Comment from: Eric Burns posted at August 24, 2005 1:17 PM

Putting the line in would necessitate an actual Stylesheet change (we just took out the "posted" class for this section), and I'm not really sure it's needed.

Comment from: Dave Van Domelen posted at August 24, 2005 2:50 PM

Yay!

Comment from: Kludge posted at August 25, 2005 7:08 AM

I think the line would still be useful. This version is better - it's not actively misleading - but it's still a bit confusing. Anyhoo, I'll stop complaining now. I can always complain to Wednesday's face later on, give her the chance to hit back. ;)

I quite like the fact that you're trying out [e] and eric: on the main page, though. That's much less confusing, and I quite egalitarian.

Comment from: Wednesday posted at August 25, 2005 10:47 AM

Kludge: does this mean you're actually coming over tonight?

I'm thinking line is the way to go, myself, but yesterday there was just too much AAAAAAAAAAAAAAA. AAA, AAAAA aAAaaaAAaaa, Aaaa, and, of course, asieoniezi.

Comment from: Plaid Phantom posted at August 25, 2005 10:54 AM

Liking the new look. It would be nice to have something separating the comments. Now, it can be hard to tell who says what unless you already know the names are above the post. Also, I can't type while lying on my side, but that's neither here nor there.

Comment from: Kudilu posted at August 25, 2005 11:50 AM

hey, new poster . . .

i like the new look, i just have one comment - on the front page where the snarks are? it looks like the post time and date and person are connected to the snark below - i guess like they were saying with the comments earlier.

i agree that there needs to be something dividing the comments, it looks to . . . clumped? otherwise. if you would have to change the stylesheet to do one or the other, i guess that means it would be easier to do both, right?

Comment from: DarkStar posted at August 25, 2005 5:31 PM

1) I like the new look. Very clean.

2) I like that the names list by the posts.

3) Could you change the name tags in the RSS feed so that they don't take up as much space? Perhaps just an "EB" and "WW" instead of the full "Eric Burns:" that is there now? My newsreader is just a Firefox Plugin sidebar and right now the name takes up a third of the sidebar space that it uses. Cuts off a lot of the title. Just, you-know, saying is all.

4) Um... keep up the good work. :-P

Comment from: larksilver posted at August 26, 2005 1:16 AM

Not that it matters.. but..

Pretty. I like all the blues. I know everybody is having line-dreams, but it's cool as it is. It just is different, and some.. well, bleh. nevermind.

Suffice to say, after about 30 seconds of "holy CRAP what happened to websnark," and then another 30 seconds of "oh, look! There's the Snarkysaurus on the comments page," I'm used to it now, and just as happy as before. More so, cause look! There's the Snarkysaurus again. too cute.

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