Management Matt Posted June 8, 2011 Management Share Posted June 8, 2011 How do you people cope with a book that has commas, I wonder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adriano Faria Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Well, commas isn't a problem for me in books, since it doesn't has extra spaces and they didn't appear some in bold and some not in bold. Why not use the old · (http://en.wikipedia....wiki/Interpunct) or something like that ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexJ Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Have you ever seen any Content page of a book with coma as a separator? If yes, I would like to see the book :smile: IMO Front end page of a forum is more like a 'Content' page of a book and it should look clean and clear. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clickfinity Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 The sub-forums are very bunched-up too - makes them harder to read - can we have them in neat columns whilst we're at it as well please? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishfish0001 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I'm having a moment of genius: Make them bordered like the newest member and total posts at the bottom :sorcerer: Example: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrej Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I'm having a moment of genius: Make them bordered like the newest member and total posts at the bottom :sorcerer: Example: [img=http://cl.ly/3h2H3R0730131t3p3B1p/Screen_shot_2011-06-08_at_11.28.22_AM.PNG] That looks really cool. :smile: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adriano Faria Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Make them bordered like the newest member and total posts at the bottom Very good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy T Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I'm having a moment of genius: Make them bordered like the newest member and total posts at the bottom :sorcerer: Example: [img=http://cl.ly/3h2H3R0730131t3p3B1p/Screen_shot_2011-06-08_at_11.28.22_AM.PNG] I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexJ Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 No offense to anyone but I don't like what fishfish suggested .... I guess we all have our own likings LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy T Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 No offense to anyone but I don't like what fishfish suggested .... I guess we all have our own likings LOL Yes very true. I personally do not mind the commas even though it kind of reminds me more of tags. If it stays as commas though I will probably just change it via a skin edit to the * or a dot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
• Jay • Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 I'm having a moment of genius: Make them bordered like the newest member and total posts at the bottom :sorcerer: Example: [img=http://cl.ly/3h2H3R0730131t3p3B1p/Screen_shot_2011-06-08_at_11.28.22_AM.PNG] I actually like that, especially if it was designed in columns, so that the subforums in row two would line up directly under row one instead of looking like a jagged stack of links. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishfish0001 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 It was like 2 min of work. It could probably be fixed up a bit to match it more. Anything is possible with a little CSS guys ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KittyCanuck Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Fishfish0001's idea could work. I still like the dot idea better, since it's what I use on my forum currently. I actually like that, especially if it was designed in columns, so that the subforums in row two would line up directly under row one instead of looking like a jagged stack of links. Yes! It scrunches up terribly on non-widescreen monitors. This is what I see on a square monitor: (attached). The subforums looks like a jumbled mess, and the bold/unbolded makes it look more jumbled. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishfish0001 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Wow that font rendering is awful on your computer :| Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KittyCanuck Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 Wow that font rendering is awful on your computer :| Yeah, I was just noticing that everyone else's screenshots were way nicer looking than mine. :P I'm on a work computer (shhhh!) on my break so it's not exactly top of the line, but it's under 3 years old, using FF 3.6.16 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U2 Fan Posted June 8, 2011 Author Share Posted June 8, 2011 They are unbolded when they are read: [img] [/img] I didn't realise that, Michael. Thanks. Take a look at that very same screenshot, though. Was anyone else confused (like I was, briefly) as to whether "Server Management, Resources, Optimization" were three separate forums or just one? I had to go back to the main forum index to actually try the link to confirm it was just one. So, the only difference between a forum title that has commas in it and a list of subforums is an extra space in between each subforum?? It would be interesting to see what would happen if that main forum above (Server Management, Resources, Optimization) was a subforum.Subforum #1, Subforum #2, Server Management, Resources, Optimization, Subforum #4 Hhhhmmm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishfish0001 Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 They are completely different sizes and look nothing alike? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
U2 Fan Posted June 8, 2011 Author Share Posted June 8, 2011 But they would be the same size in my example, wouldn't they? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanax Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 The only bad thing I can see about this new way is that you cannot mark subforums as read from mainpage. Really disturbing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexJ Posted June 8, 2011 Share Posted June 8, 2011 The only bad thing I can see about this new way is that you cannot mark subforums as read from mainpage. Really disturbing! U were not able to do that in previous version also. It's been always like that afaik. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tanax Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 U were not able to do that in previous version also. It's been always like that afaik. Indeed, it has always been like that which truly sucks. It's been available on vB since they introduced suboforums :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fishfish0001 Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 I'm sure someone could whip up a quick modification to do that though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
• Jay • Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 I didn't realise that, Michael. Thanks. Take a look at that very same screenshot, though. Was anyone else confused (like I was, briefly) as to whether "Server Management, Resources, Optimization" were three separate forums or just one? I had to go back to the main forum index to actually try the link to confirm it was just one. So, the only difference between a forum title that has commas in it and a list of subforums is an extra space in between each subforum?? It would be interesting to see what would happen if that main forum above (Server Management, Resources, Optimization) was a subforum. Subforum #1, Subforum #2, Server Management, Resources, Optimization, Subforum #4 Hhhhmmm. This is actually a pretty good point, it would make it awkward to make subforum titles that have one or more commas. Well played, sir. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Yeah, IP.Board should probably strip out commas everywhere, they might confuse people that there are subforums here in random posts too, like this one. I'm honestly surprised this is still being discussed. Is it really that uncommon to see a list of things separated by commas? They're just punctuation marks, separating items in a list, they're not meant to be some special subforum separation indicator. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
• Jay • Posted June 9, 2011 Share Posted June 9, 2011 Yeah, IP.Board should probably strip out commas everywhere, they might confuse people that there are subforums here in random posts too, like this one. I'm honestly surprised this is still being discussed. Is it really that uncommon to see a list of things separated by commas? They're just punctuation marks, separating items in a list, they're not meant to be some special subforum separation indicator. Michael, if you look at the example above, you would be able to see how someone reading the list of subforums could easily think there were 6 instead of 4. That was the point U2 Fan was making. While I initially thought the whole comma discussion was a bit.. nitpicky... U2 Fan does bring up a valid objection. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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