ENTIRE Forums on the side bar....

[Rem]

Please no
What the fuck is this lol
so much clutter
instead, can we "choose" what sections we want on the sidebar instead.

 

[Impulse]

Hey @Rem, I went ahead and changed the widget so that it doesn't automatically expand all of the subforums.

Do you think this fixes the issue or is there something that would be better?

 

[Rem]

Hey @Rem, I went ahead and changed the widget so that it doesn't automatically expand all of the subforums.

Do you think this fixes the issue or is there something that would be better?

the entire widget is ugly and honestly feels overwhelming
would much prefer a selected amount there only
since if i am using it, i still have to expand and look forever thru them.
In another forum, despite being there for over 10+ years
i still dont remember the order of the sections and it pisses me the hell off

 

[Impulse]

the entire widget is ugly and honestly feels overwhelming
would much prefer a selected amount there only
since if i am using it, i still have to expand and look forever thru them.
In another forum, despite being there for over 10+ years
i still dont remember the order of the sections and it pisses me the hell off

I'll see what I can do to improve the appearance of it. I can reduce which sections appear in there, but then I'm not sure which sections should be removed from there, as it would definitely effect traffic for those sections.

I can't control the look of it very much, so I may have to find a different addon for it.

Thank you for the feedback - I'll look into it further.

 

[Rem]

I can reduce which sections appear in there, but then I'm not sure which sections should be removed from there,

I can confidently just say
it would be very rare for the a collective group to want the same links on the side panel

 

[Zwielicht]

It's an add-on and it appears to be the only one of its type that provides a permissions-based navigation bar widget. This is in contrast with the one on the other forum that doesn't have this functionality.

The default design looks a little dated, I agree. We can make some CSS changes to it to make it more modern and fit the rest of the forum. After all, any add-ons should be adjusted to feel like a part of the site.

As for which sections should be listed there, we don't have the data to really determine that just yet, but we can probably get away with only listing the current top 3-4 most popular sections in each category. We'll think this over, but for now, we'll leave it collapsed by default just so it's a little less overwhelming.

 

[Zwielicht]

I worked on this a bit the other day. Because of the way it's formatted, many of the CSS changes I made to it caused it to look even more dated.

It's a bit subtle, but one change I made to it was a minor effect you seem around the forum. If you notice, all of the "boxes" on the forum have a specifically defined border.

border-width: 1px;
    border-style: solid;
    border-top-color: #1f1f1f;
    border-right-color: #292929;
    border-bottom-color: #333;
    border-left-color: #292929;
    border-radius: 4px;

The menu bar didn't have this, which I felt made it look less like part of the forum. I applied this not only to the exterior of the widget, but also around the menu items as well. It's a small changes, but it gives it more dimension, separation, and makes it look less like a lines of links.

One other thing I was looking was replacing that little arrow thing with something else. However, I'd need to replace the SVG image with another one that I'd have to make and set the definition for. I've not done that before, so it's something I need to learn more about later.

I'll keep working at it, though.

 

[Impulse]

Just cleaning up some of our suggestions. I think the changes @Zwielicht made have resolved the issues with the forum list and having them be collapsed by default has helped with the clutter, so I'll mark this as resolved now.

Please post in here again if you have suggestions on what else can be done.