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Jack Douglas replying to claybrick

Interesting — I don't think any of those were available when we were first looking. The .org was the domain we always wanted.

claybrick replying to Jack Douglas

topanswers.net seems also available and topanswers.com costs "just" $5,000.00. top-answers.net seems quite disappointing.

Jack Douglas

James spotted that topanswers.org was available

Jack Douglas

Jack Douglas replying to Diaa

we probably will add a UI shortcut for 'deleted' which just removes the text and locks edits, however we first need to change the UI for chat actions. We are thinking something more like how Slack works with the icons overlaid on hover, but it's complicated by the variable chat width bubble here.

claybrick

Comments removed for a helpful reason (obsolete, readability or similar) would be more useful if less noticeable (blank comment), and misuses seem likely to attract more attention/suspicion/drama in other ways (I'm not familiar with all the subtleties of this fine art  so I may be wrong). Keeping the history is a good safeguard in any case.

claybrick replying to Diaa

I would be way more curious to check the hstory of a "Deleted comment" than a blank one. Some time ago I think a post I made was accidentaly posted two times and I flagged it. Not sure if it was deleted really fast or if was just a UI glitch. I guess that flags should be used more sparingly.

Diaa replying to samcarter

@Jack This is the best way to do so by replacing the whole comment with just "Deleted comment". So, no one would go through reading obsolete undeletable comments.

samcarter replying to Jack Douglas

replace the message with a "Deleted" dummy text? (I know one could do this manually, but as a button or similar this might be easier to discover)

Jack Douglas replying to Diaa

The problem with actual deletion is it prevents people from seeing the history — there are various ways that could be abused I think

samcarter replying to Diaa

The commonly accepted  approach to deleting comments is to edit it and replace it with a cute duck picture - the cuter the better :)   
(if you don't have any duck pictures yourself, this website is a great source: http://www.duckoftheday.co.uk/ )

Diaa

@Jack  Would you please make it available to delete a previously posted comment?

John aka hot2use

Morning

Pax replying to Anonymous 1765

I tend to agree so when I have the time I post specific suggestions over here in meta. Everyone is welcome to do so (see previous [design-related posts](https://topanswers.xyz/meta?search=%5Bdesign%5D)). You can create a new meta post or a comment/answer to an existing post if you have your own specific ideas. I know the TA developers would appreciate feedback from users with a keen eye for design, especially if specific and actionable.

marmot

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Monica

Happy new year!  May 2021 bring us relief from some of 2020's challenges.

FoggyFinder

Happy New Year :-)

samcarter replying to Anonymous 1765

Do you have any specific suggestions of things to improve?

Anonymous 1765

You really need UX and frontend designers

FoggyFinder

yep

PeterVandivier

The order of sites on the homepage is random, correct?

kus

Merry Christmas! (:

Josh Darnell replying to Jack Douglas

Merry Christmas, Jack!

samcarter replying to Jack Douglas

Merry Christmas to you, too!   Thanks for all the amazing work you did here over the previous year!  

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Jack Douglas

Merry Christmas to all the lovely people  on TA :)

samcarter replying to Diaa

What @AndriyM said. If you would like to get mails for new notifications, you can active this in your profile, e.g. https://topanswers.xyz/profile?community=tex

Andriy M replying to Diaa

Presumably [response notifications](https://topanswers.xyz/meta?q=487)

Diaa replying to samcarter

I am late to the party. What emails are all of you talking about? 😀

Marshall Lochbaum replying to Jack Douglas

For viewing the chat I don't want it to survive navigation: if someone links something in chat, it's probably for the question instead of the chat page. I guess if someone wanted to view only the questions then that might not be the case, but then wouldn't they also want the setting to persist generally?

Jack Douglas replying to Marshall Lochbaum

if we store the 'snap' state of the divider in `sessionStorage` I think we'd get that then — it would survive refresh or navigation within the one tab only

Marshall Lochbaum

Of course, I can just reload the bookmark if a refresh would change things so it's not too different.

Marshall Lochbaum replying to Jack Douglas

I'd probably want the page to stay the same (i.e. one-panel) on refresh. It's an edge case but I might refresh to check the connection.

Jack Douglas replying to Marshall Lochbaum

I guess my thinking is that it makes the setting somewhat persistent (ie it would then survive a refresh)

Jack Douglas replying to Marshall Lochbaum

or just refresh if the snapping isn't persistent

Marshall Lochbaum replying to Jack Douglas

What's the reason to get rid of the query parameter?

Marshall Lochbaum replying to Jack Douglas

If I have to unsnap the divider to go back to looking at the QA then that's definitely not as good. I'd like to go back to the two-panel layout if I open any other page on TA (which I'd probably do in a new tab, but maybe not).

Jack Douglas replying to Marshall Lochbaum

a URL is probably a pretty easy way to implement this, especially as we can edit the url to get rid of the query parameter silently when the page displays — but the 'snapable' divider would probably work just as well for you? If so I think it's a nicer solution overall

Marshall Lochbaum

That's why I suggested a URL to view only the chat half of a page (or questions, since I'm sure some people want the opposite thing). It's easiest to bookmark.

Marshall Lochbaum replying to Jack Douglas

I'd prefer something that doesn't persist at all---I'd like to have the option to view the chat as a full page sometimes but otherwise view the site like it is by default (I was the one who asked Adam this initially).

Jack Douglas

thinking about it though there is no easy way to comment it out :) (in FF at least)

Jack Douglas

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Tools/Debugger/How_to/Search#Searching_in_all_files

Jack Douglas replying to Adám

you should be able to search in all sources in dev tools?

Adám replying to Jack Douglas

Where? How?

Jack Douglas replying to Adám

does commenting out this line help?  
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  $(window).resize(_.debounce(function(){ $('body').height(window.innerHeight); setTimeout(function(){ window.scrollTo(0,0); },100); })).trigger('resize');

Jack Douglas replying to Adám

Could be — that would be fairly easy. Probably more idiomatic to have a divider that has a snap to left/right as well as a default position though

Adám replying to Jack Douglas

Maybe that could be a user setting?

Adám

@Jack Btw, it seems the JS monitoring window size changes is so heavy that my browser freezes up when I try to drag its window border to resize it.

Adám replying to Jack Douglas

Why not move the avatar and the room icon one "block" away from the divider and add « and » ?

Jack Douglas replying to Adám

You can get desktop to behave like mobile by overriding a bit of css with a browser extension (Styling/ish/us). If you change `@media (max-width: 576px)` to `@media (max-width: 9999px)` or something. It still won't persist across refresh as the same localstorage toggle will be used on both tabs, but it's a lot easier and less faffy than moving the divider

Adám

@Jack You previously told me that your solution to have chat and questions in separate windows was to move the slider to the left/right edge. However, there's only one persisting setting per user, so if I have two such windows, and refresh the page, the become the same. How about allowing ?show=chat and ?show=questions (or similar) to the URL causing a "zoomed" view? Then you can have "pop out" buttons in each top bar that would open the same page with the parameter set, and people could bookmark those.