The discussion revolves around design suggestions for improving the chat feature on the forum. Canapin initiated the conversation, sharing several issues, including:
The action bar being too invasive and potentially covering replied message excerpts.
The reaction bar being too large and hiding a bit of the top of the message text.
The delay in showing the reaction bar, which joffreyjaffeux explained was intentional to avoid too much screen movement.
Image thumbnails remaining small in fullscreen mode.
Canapin suggested reducing the reaction bar’s size or moving it to the “more” menu, while joffreyjaffeux and sam proposed removing recent reactions in “drawer mode” (the floating chat container at the bottom right of the page).
joffreyjaffeux implemented changes to address these issues, and Canapin reported that the updated design meets their expectations.
When you upload an image and set the chat in fullscreen, the thumbnail remains tiny. It would be nice if the thumbnail was larger when on fullscreen.
Small chat window:
And for some reason, on slow connections (I suppose: I have a very slow connection nowadays), there is a delay to show the reaction bar. I don’t know why since there is apparently no server-side query. I didn’t find a delay in the CSS as well. It seems a bit sluggish:
Just to explain, I often keep the cursor on a paragraph I’m reading on the Internet (like people that put their finger on the text of a book they’re reading), hence the fact that the text is partially hidden bothers me a little. It’s not unreadable at all obviously, just a tiny thing that scratches my brain.
Maybe reduce the size a bit, because the reaction bar seems very long to me.
Here’s with a scale of 1 (default):
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On top of other actions like when we right-click on a message on Discord? But I don’t think it’s particularly convenient if we remove the quick reactions.
I think some minor adjustments to size and positioning would help a fair bit.
We can make it a bit smaller and shift it up a bit to make sure it never occludes any text in the message and leaves a little breathing room in between.
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