Modern Vespa

I like the new look.

Thanks. Just trying to optimize for mobile a bit more.

It's ageism at its worst.

What have you got against old things? Aren't you one yourself?

I am an old thing, yes. I try not to stand still, though, as that's when the seethers will notice you and start devouring you.

Boomers are ruining everything

Not much to see here. Yawn.

Turns phone sideways.
OMG life in landscape is like a different world.

Someone should have patented that.

Assemble Avatars Go!

Are you lying on the couch eating Portuguese takeaways?

No, I'm back in California now.

I'm just hoping the current is a temporary layout as these variable height rows look weird

Hey mom look at me, I'm on someone else's screenshot!

I think it makes the screen look cluttered, and the avatars without names aren't helpful if you don't recognize the avatar or the user doesn't have one. Just my $0.02.

I have to say, i did prefer the old look. Maybe thats just because the new look is new and needs getting used to. The subjects seem too far apart with the new look.

It does look good on my iPhone, but I wish user names could be displayed instead of avatars. That would look too busy, I suppose.

Anyway, thanks for keeping the look fresh, Jess.

It's brilliant. I had to take my glasses off and put them back on. It's a lot more user friendly and clear. Tks.

Yeah, that's broken. They're supposed to be side-by-side images. Looks like I need a bit more space around them to allow for vagaries of interpretation by other browsers.

What browser?

The problem with names is that some of you have ridiculously long ones. That tends to use up horizontal space, allowing for less information on mobile layouts.

On desktop browsers, you can hover over the icon with your mouse cursor and it will tell you the user's name.

Just to be clear, this is what it's supposed to look like. If you're seeing avatar icons stacked on top of one another, that's a broken layout I need to fix.

This is what I see. Windows 10 and Chrome

Yeah, side by side would look much better. For my desktop computer, it's Firefox 107.0 on Manjaro Linux.

Definitely broken. Working on a new solution right now.

I've pushed a new implementation of side-by-side avatar images. It seems some browsers weren't honoring the intent of the float properly, so I took a different approach.

Hopefully that improves the layout for most or all of you.

Yes, thats much better, Side by side now.

Works for me, too.

Thanks for the feedback, all.

I may play around with adding back the text-based columns in addition to the avatars, for cases where the window is very wide and there is otherwise a lot of wasted space. I think for mobile, we'll only see the avatars, but desktop has quite a bit of leeway for additional information.

I've just pushed another change to the code. Desktop windows that are excessively wide will get text-based versions of author and last poster columns, in addition to avatars of same. As the window gets smaller, those text columns are the first things to get removed. By the time you hit mobile sizes, you have the avatars and maybe, if you're lucky, the time of last activity.

If I may suggest a minor change.

I played with that layout, and was unable to get it to display as cleanly as you've presented it here. Actually, it was a shit-show, and I gave up.

Not to say it isn't worthwhile, just that I couldn't get it to work well. I'm also still fighting the worst cold I've ever had, so that's probably half of my failure.

It's also harder to collapse that layout for smaller screen sizes, as the avatars in separate columns will take up as much space as the column header. So I'd have to figure that out too.

Maybe when I'm not feeling like I've been hit by a truck, I'll revisit it.

Still? Dang! ~sending healing vibes and goodness your way~

The gap from closing your own loop looks odd. How easy is it to mirror the avatar?

Just my 2 cents. This is a screenshot taken yesterday on my Samsung cell phone. Thread titles all evenly spaced.

I totally don't grasp what you're saying here. Can you elaborate?

znomit means when the first and last poster is the same user, can the avatar be doubled up to fill the empty gap.

Thanks for that translation.

That was actually a deliberate decision, but it probably warrants discussion. There are two actual cases here:

A) There is only one post in the thread. Doubling the avatar here seems... wrong somehow.

B) The thread starter is also the most recent poster (where posts > 1). In this case, it makes more sense to have the avatar be doubled.

This is now implemented in the case of the OP being the same as the last poster.

For cases where there are no replies to a thread (e.g. the posting guidelines at the top of the page), there will still be only a single avatar shown.

Amateriat's normal avatar shows a rank of sergeant. In the mini avatar he has been demoted to corporal. Poor bugger.

Let this be a lesson to all: square avatars work better here.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_outside_the_box

I like the new font!