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I'm slowly making improvements to the CSS. One concept that I've stealing from Upgoat is to color the left side of a nested comment randomly.
There are multiple elements I can target for that each with a slightly different look and I want to know what you prefer.
We'll start from the inner most I can do to the outer most.
Annoying it seems for some of these locations a very small amount of color variation makes some difference. I should make a grid with a lot of colors and locations, maybe even with some lorem ipsum, but who has the time?
And I've realized while writing this that this could all fit into a poll. Let's do that!
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I'd suggest looking at 3 or 4 at random and then voting based on those, if it seems too much to look at all of those. Make sure to get a vote down on the ones with no vote. Or go through all of them; Upvote it if it was better than the last one, downvote if awful.
I plan to apply one of these right away but I want to get this poll out first. (edit: done)
See, the CSS can improve. I know I've been getting a lot of suggestions to improve the CSS. I want you to know your suggestions are heard. They all go into my system that runs a good percent of my life. The thing is this system is probabilistic. Just think of me as a robot that does probabilistic actions. It has to be probabilistic because given the volume of things I work on if it weren't some things would have zero probability of happening.
I want to give you guys suggestions for making better suggestions that will up the odds of your suggestion happening and ultimately result in better CSS. My suggestion is to suggest small relatively specific things especially that have examples from other websites.
The title for the task that produced this was:
Make it so second level comments on matrix use a random color for the left edge to indicate the breadth of itself and its children (like upgoat)
I want to give you guys good instructions for how to proompt me.
Ok. I've got something working. I generated a set of 16 random colors so we can cull ones that suck. But we can pick something better out of the poll.
Also people who know how can play around with things in the browser and screen cap a few variations and we can run polls on stuff like that in the future.
I use DarkReader, a browser addon. It changes the colours. SaidIt had light/dark modes. I'd aim for highest contrast and difference between the colours. They can always be muted down from that.
In a case like this, for graphics and voting options I'd crop the area of interest, crop it to a uniform size for each, put them all in a single image file to compare side-by-side (ideally posted with an expando) and add corresponding numbers or letters for each - then folks can vote for the numbers or letters.
They all look the same, and some pictures aren’t of CSS but rather a dindu nuffin…
Look at the nested comment. Left edge of it. It's subtle but I think in the end we don't want anything insane.
Here it is at 120px: https://img.gvid.tv/i/38FTCgCQ.png
But damn, even the 9px that I thought would be absurd isn't as bad as I thought. With a less intense color and maybe down a bit from 9 it could be an option.
https://img.gvid.tv/i/3BnrFn85.png Do we restart the poll? Probably not.
Edit: Tell you what. We are going to do one from this poll. When it's over we can run it again with the top few and any new suggestions. Or I can just put the 9px border as an optional theme. (Check /s/Themes).
Ah, I keep forgetting to come here. Whatever width you decided on looks good here. Both in green or purple, it’s visually distinct enough from the background to be a good delineation.
EDIT: Oh, the color seems to be random. Fair enough; works well.
Done and done.
Is there a way to look up posts and replies?
Like search? I need to do that. Doing a gvid migration at the moment.
On SaidIt (and the old Reddit it's based on) you could make CSS to alternate shades of posts on a page. I found it to be good.