Sticky separator bar too thick

flyingchicken · May 23, 2011

Please let us adjust it at least to account for different tastes but honestly it looks ugly so fat maybe a little thinner or a lot or remove it completely just like the wayyy it wasss

edit: but maybe it just takes getting used to and im reacting a bit too much

more edit: the stickies are useful, but once you're a regular they just sorta disappear from your radar, putting any more attention to them is kinda silly and just adds junk to the look of the place

maybe give us the option to hide stickies?

azzaman333 · May 23, 2011

It looks like the forum has glitched every time I load a page. Really quite ugly.

LucyDuke · May 23, 2011

Ugly clutter.

Like the bookmarks bar.

GenMarshall · May 23, 2011

It makes the forums a bit.... ...cluttered with a huge bar just taking up space.

Knight-Dragon · May 23, 2011

I feel the same... It's quite distracting.

Edit: I think it's because on the blue skin I am using, the blue color used for the separator is thicker than even the forum bars.

Abaddon · May 23, 2011

flyingchicken said:
The stickies are useful, but once you're a regular they just sorta disappear from your radar, putting any more attention to them is kinda silly and just adds junk to the look of the place

Maybe give us the option to hide stickies?

This, very much this. Some forums really have a ton of stickies.. when one could do.

I offer my services in creating singlular stickies to links to anything you could possibly desire within any subfora?

ainwood · May 23, 2011

I tried to make it a bit smaller by setting the height but it seems to insist on inheriting the header height.

Code:

	<td class="thead" width="100%" colspan="7">&nbsp;</td>

Changed to:

Code:

	<td class="thead" width="100%" colspan="7" style="height:5px">&nbsp;</td>

If someone can educate me on .html tables, I'm willing to try modifying it.

Abaddon · May 23, 2011

If we are stuck with the thickness, how about my idea of organising things into one sticky?

LucyDuke · May 23, 2011

Stickies are still set off by Sticky: and being in a block on top. I don't see why this was even added?

Abaddon · May 23, 2011

Would be nice to be asked about things like this, rather than them simply implemented...

LucyDuke · May 23, 2011

Doesn't seem like something that'd warrant a poll.

Abaddon · May 23, 2011

Why not? Pretty simple to do.

Few screenshots with a "would you find this useful" poll...

Camikaze · May 23, 2011

Isn't the point of stickies to make particular threads noticeable? This would seem to help in that. :dunno:

azzaman333 · May 23, 2011

Camikaze said:
Isn't the point of stickies to make particular threads noticeable? This would seem to help in that.

For me, all it does is make that bar noticeable, and the threads above it easier to ignore than ever before.

Abaddon · May 23, 2011

Camikaze said:
Isn't the point of stickies to make particular threads noticeable? This would seem to help in that.

We have a problem of them not being noticed?

Camikaze · May 23, 2011

Well, yeah. Let's take the Civ5 Strategy forum, for example. There's 6 stuck threads, and without the bar it was kinda harder to distinguish them from the rest (or at least I found them harder to distinguish). Now making that distinction is quite easy; easier distinction means more attention, because it's not just another thread-without-new-posts. It doesn't look so brilliant in forums with less stuck threads, though (it's not so good in OT, for example). But I reckon it does provide a benefit for forums with more stuck threads. Hopefully this will partially resolve ori's rule of "the best way to reduce traffic in a thread is to stick it".

Abaddon · May 23, 2011

Does there really need to be 6 different stickied threads?

Why not make a single, master thread, with links to these other threads?

Camikaze · May 23, 2011

The advantage of reducing clutter would be there, but then threads would be both less accessible and less noticeable, which are the two primary purposes of stickied threads in the first place.

azzaman333 · May 23, 2011

The thing about stickies is no one looks at them, ever.

Grisu · May 23, 2011

ainwood said:
I tried to make it a bit smaller by setting the height but it seems to insist on inheriting the header height.

Code:

<td class="thead" width="100%" colspan="7"> </td>

Changed to:

Code:

<td class="thead" width="100%" colspan="7" style="height:5px"> </td>

If someone can educate me on .html tables, I'm willing to try modifying it.

the problem is the   as the row height-minimum is the height of that char. either remove it or add font-size:3px; (or something) to the style attribute.

btw, this could be easily blocked out by the greasemonkey-script...I'll have a look into it later, or maybe someone more knowledgable with this (*cough*Till*cough*) could add such an option

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