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askvortsov One idea I had is adding a read/unread marker to the lastDiscussion, that shouldn't add too much load time. What would you think about that?

The more I think about this, the more I like the idea of having some sort of indication. Up to this point, I think we've been discussing an indicator for unread status of posts and how resource heavy that'd be. Would we encounter the same issues in checking only whether there are new discussions (not unread discussions) w/in in a tag?

jordanjay29 Unintuitive for one, since it breaks longstanding forum traditions of unread indicators on categorization levels.

It seems that Discourse handles things this way on that category level – notifying of new discussions, but not necessarily new posts w/in existing discussions.

askvortsov

UaMV new discussions (not unread discussions) w/in in a tag?

New discussions relative to when? The benefit of using lastPostedDiscussion is that you can check whether 1 discussion has unread posts very trivially. We could check if new discussions have been added since the user marked all posts as read (as that's stored directly in the database), but i'm not sure if that would fulfill your goal.

nexromant Is it possible to change the size of the icon blocks and font for the mobile version?

I'm always open to style change ideas! Do you have any particular thoughts on how to improve the look on mobile? I agree that it looks a bit large, but I fear that reducing the font too much would just end up illegible.

One thing I've been considering is an option for "compact mobile", which would hide the description, and display everything a lot more compactly. Is that something you'd like to see?

nexromant

Hello! Great extension! Is it possible to change the size of the icon blocks and font for the mobile version?

jordanjay29

askvortsov One thing I've been considering is an option for "compact mobile", which would hide the description, and display everything a lot more compactly. Is that something you'd like to see?

I actually think this would make a lot of sense. Descriptions can always be read from the tag view itself.

nexromant

askvortsov I could draw something like in Photoshop as I see the mobile version with categories, and you can decide for Yourself whether it should look like this or not

askvortsov

nexromant Sure, that'd be great!

nexromant

askvortsov

It may not be the best design solution for colors, but in favor of adaptability for the mobile version, you can remove the widget for the last discussion in the tag

askvortsov

nexromant Whoah I like this idea a lot! A few thoughts:

Considering Jordan's comment, and that descriptions can be very long, what if we put the most recent discussion where you have the description?
Do you envision any ideas from this design being applicable to the desktop version? I agree that I like this a lot more than the current mobile design (I'll add it as an option in settings so that people can choose between designs)

nexromant

askvortsov About long descriptions - if I'm not mistaken, you can trim the text using CSS pseudo-class :: after

askvortsov

nexromant Alright that's fair. The only question is whether the description or the last posted discussion would be a better use of the space (since titles tend to be self-explanatory, and the discussion we could put in would barely be longer than the title).

askvortsov Do you envision any ideas from this design being applicable to the desktop version? I agree that I like this a lot more than the current mobile design (I'll add it as an option in settings so that people can choose between designs)

Also, any thoughts on this? I'm also trying to figure out how to best structure the options in settings (as there's a LOT of them already).

Maybe we should have several themes for this extension?

askvortsov

v0.2.5

NEW: Compact Mobile Mode, inspired by nexromant's awesome illustrations. Test it out at https://forum.youthneuro.org/. You can able this via a switch in settings.
Also, reorganized the settings modal a bit to be more manageable/maneuverable, added headings, etc

Screenshot of Compact Mobile Mode:

As always, let me know if you encounter any bugs or have feature ideas!

Ralkage

askvortsov he only question is whether the description or the last posted discussion would be a better use of the space (since titles tend to be self-explanatory, and the discussion we could put in would barely be longer than the title).

I like this approach as the tags page itself shows the latest discussion in that tag under it's nested tags 🙂

Littlegolden

askvortsov Maybe we should have several themes for this extension?

Good idea.

nexromant

askvortsov

If You are planning to make several versions of the category interface, here I have also made a layout in PS... As an option

askvortsov

YlgnZeynepSelin It looks like your translation keys aren't working properly, make sure you have the proper language pack installed!

nexromant If You are planning to make several versions of the category interface, here I have also made a layout in PS

I gave this some more thought, and I'm not sure that I'll be able to maintain several themes. The benefit of compact mobile mode is that it moves the child discussions inside the parent one, and after that, custom CSS can largely be used to customize

Aleram

nexromant In the battle between Flarum and XenForo, did the latter win? ))

YlgnZeynepSelin

I'm getting an error

YlgnZeynepSelin

askvortsov My forum is in Turkish ...

jordanjay29

askvortsov Just make it easily extendible through CSS and people can create their own themes.

SezginYILDIRIM

YlgnZeynepSelin You need to install the plugin

https://discuss.flarum.org/d/20684-flarum-extensions-turkish-language-pack

askvortsov

jordanjay29 Just make it easily extendible through CSS and people can create their own themes.

That's been one of my goals while building the HTML of it, the vast majority of things should be configurable through CSS, and if there's something that isn't, I've used item lists so that it SHOULD be easier to override individual elements.

Of course, if there's something that needs to be made more extendable I can look into that too.

katos

jordanjay29 Might have to have a good old dig around the CSS myself and see just how much I can ~~butcher~~ edit the theme to suit the requirements of my own forum(s) 🙂

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