Hi all, I'm preparing to do a code push. You can see the latest code tour here: https://dw-dev.dreamwidth.org/214638.html

Hang on to your hats!

Edit: The code has pushed! As always, please let us know if you see anything wonky or broken and we'll get on it!

Known Issues - Fixed 'em Maybe?

* Font size was way too small. We've tweaked them to be larger, but would welcome more feedback!
* Lack of ability to horizontally resize comment area. This has been fixed, you can drag the box horizontally again like you should be able to!
* A couple of style issues have been found and fixed.
* An issue affecting some Navigation strips has been fixed.
* An issue affecting syndicated accounts, proxied images, and a couple other worker related tasks were broken. They're better now.
* We've made some updates to the design of the comment reply form, we brought back the browse button, made the subject line full-width, and some other tweaks. Please let us know what you think!
* The RTE on the old create entry form is returned to service. A few more months, that's all we ask of you old friend...
* OpenID was broken, it's back.
* Button sizes are reset to default, we are no longer trying to make things line up. Let the ziggurat design pattern live on.
* Polls should show properly sized bars again.
* Lots more Android issues, we had to murder the unused spellcheck button to make it work out. Some weird interactions with differently sized elements and our ancient HTML.

Known Issues - Pending

* Related, some fields seem to have gone emo and are putting on heavy eyeliner (have bold, dark outlines). We're aware.

All known issues are being investigated and will be fixed! Please hang tight while we work on it :)

If you are reporting something visual, please let us know what browser/device you're on!

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Thank you so much for all your hard work! Forgive me for asking, but is there a way to revert to the old comment posting form? The new one is very small on my browser and really difficult to read what I'm actually writing.

I would like the option to revert back. The new comment box is very small and hard for me to see, and without the browsing option I can't see the icons I'm choosing very well either.

On chrome at least, clicking the icon picture to the left of the comment box pulls up the browse option.

Your browse button is now the icon next to your comment. Not very intuitive tho.

Re: +1

wordsinthesoul - 2019-06-23 04:32 (UTC) - Expand

+1

If it were a bit bigger, this would be a lot better. On Chrome, btw.

Edited 2019-06-23 04:19 (UTC)

Agreed. The text is a little small on my screen (if not so much so as to be a major problem), but I know a couple of people for whom small text is/can be a migraine trigger and I'm not sure how well this scales.

+1

The text is tiny and hurts my eyes.

Yeah, the text is absolutely teeny.

I have a lot of trouble reading the text (typed in the comment box) as it shows up about 6-8pt in Chrome. I also preferred the other way of arrangement and am not quite sure what warranted this change.

Edited (edited to specify) 2019-06-23 04:11 (UTC)

If I was typing at a normal size, I wouldn't really care about the overall change to the format.

Indeed, quickreply does look smaller than it used to be for me as well. Chromium Version 73.0.3683.103 (Official Build) (64-bit), Style: Basic for Transmogrified by Yvonne

I think I made it a little bigger as a stopgap, can you see if that looks any better?

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pauamma - 2019-06-23 04:46 (UTC) - Expand

subject text is teenytiny

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Re: subject text is teenytiny

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I am really struggling to read the smaller text as well.

+1

Honestly the text is too small. I'm overall fine with some of the changes but I have a bit of trouble seeing thanks to the font size

seconding what everyone else has been saying; It's a bit of a struggle to see and ctrl + makes everything else a tad too big!

Chiming in to add my support to at least have a larger text size option.

The overall layout doesn't bug me, but I'm, to put it colloquially, blind as fuck, so the smaller text is screwing me up. The rest is very sleek though!!

ETA: I'm on Chrome, for reference. I've heard it's not so bad on Firefox/etc, so maybe it's a bug?

Edited 2019-06-23 04:20 (UTC)

It's almost unreadably small, I have to zoom in on firefox to be able to read what I'm typing.

Agreed. I personally have some vision problems and it's hard to see stuff like this.

Right, should've specified--I'm on Chrome as well and I'm looking at this basically.

Can confirm that it's the same on firefox. Bumping it up a couple of font sizes would drastically improve accessibility.

Edit: somehow on my end that image suddenly looks blown up? thanks imgur

Edited 2019-06-23 04:28 (UTC)

The font size is definitely too small, we're fixing!

But no, we don't have options to revert. The point of a code push is ... that the code changes. But we welcome feedback and will adjust/make more changes based on that, so please let us know what the actionable things we can do are and we'll take a look :)

Can you perhaps add a button for browsing icons vs clicking the icon itself? I don't mind it being there but I find it's unintuitive to have to click it to get that pop up when "random icon" is also still its own button.

Similarly, the issue with not being able to horizontally adjust the text area box past its set width - is that intended?

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Would it be possible to at least leave the old style when the user clicks "more options"? That's how it is now, and I think it would be appreciated by a lot of people if the old style was accessible in that way. It's tried and tried and works for older computers and tons of browsers and configurations. I know I'll be very disappointed if it goes away entirely.

denise - 2019-06-23 18:29 (UTC) - Expand

would also like the option to revert back to the old comment form. i think the movement of the buttons for subject/icon choice/etc is throwing me off most, but font size is definitely too small.

Edited 2019-06-23 04:35 (UTC)

I'm also thrown off by the buttons moving.