So the Dev Team has been hard at work fixing up issues with with the 17_02 release. We compiled all of your comments from the 17_02 Meta stories into a large bug and feature request list. We have been working on getting these issues fixed as soon as we can.
You may have noticed some changes over the last week that went out to fix some issues, and we just released some more fixes today.
Here is a list of the major fixes since the last story:
And here are the latest updates:
Continuation of:
Site Update 17_2
Comments Redux
Site Update: The Next Episode
Site Update - Taking a Breather
Outstanding Issues
So if you see any new bugs that you think are related to these changes, or just want to let us know about an ongoing issue, please feel free to comment below.
Here are the currently known bugs that we are working on:
And here are the feature requests:
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Tuesday March 14 2017, @03:15PM (13 children)
I didn't particularly like the previous icons, but I really hate these new ones.
What's wrong with a standard +/- type icon.? There are loads of them on http://www.iconarchive.com/ [iconarchive.com] to choose from - a lot of them are Commercial Free too.
Something like :
+ : http://www.iconarchive.com/show/windows-8-icons-by-icons8/Science-Plus-Math-icon.html [iconarchive.com]
- : http://www.iconarchive.com/show/windows-8-icons-by-icons8/Science-Minus-Math-icon.html [iconarchive.com]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @04:16PM (2 children)
I don't know what you see, but I see exactly a "+" resp. "-" icon; the main difference from those linked by you being that they are black on white instead of white on black (and frankly, black on white looks better IMHO).
The only thing I don't like is that they are now too large. I liked the size of the previous ones much better.
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Tuesday March 14 2017, @10:26PM (1 child)
This is what I see - https://imgur.com/a/c95jM [imgur.com]
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 15 2017, @03:17PM
And how is that not a "−" Icon? (Well, the second one is a "two-minus" icon, but it would be very confusing if the same icon would be used for different functionality!)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @04:23PM (1 child)
I don't know what you are seeing, but I'm seeing the same as your example, aside from size and color.
(Score: 2) by WizardFusion on Tuesday March 14 2017, @10:26PM
This is what I see - https://imgur.com/a/c95jM [imgur.com]
(Score: 3, Interesting) by TheRaven on Tuesday March 14 2017, @05:09PM (6 children)
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by RedBear on Tuesday March 14 2017, @06:55PM (5 children)
Yes, exactly. These icons seem to have been created the same way as the previous chevron icons, which were created by The Mighty Buzzard who readily admitted to having very little knowledge of how to use a graphics editor. If you zoom in on them you'll notice that even the sides of the boxes are sort of grayish and fuzzy looking instead of black. I suspect the method of creation was to make a tiny "rounded rectangle" shape, as this is usually what happens. The corners are horrible, the sides are horrible, the shapes inside are fuzzy. The whole icon is just totally lacking any sort of precision, as if it's been improperly anti-aliased. TMB is doing many great things for us with this website but graphic design is obviously not his forte.
Surely there is someone around here who can whip up a nice set of icons that will look infinitely better than this and scale properly to different screen sizes and zoom levels. Don't pretty much all browsers support SVG icons by now?
¯\_ʕ◔.◔ʔ_/¯ LOL. I dunno. I'm just a bear.
... Peace out. Got bear stuff to do. 彡ʕ⌐■.■ʔ
(Score: 2) by c0lo on Tuesday March 14 2017, @10:03PM (4 children)
What's wrong with SVG icons?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
(Score: 2) by paulej72 on Wednesday March 15 2017, @12:05AM (3 children)
Contrary to what RedBear stated I created the current +/- icons and the chevrons and tweaked the ones in the JS version. I had not thought of doing SVG icons, but I will look into it. It would definitely help on high res screens.
Team Leader for SN Development
(Score: 2) by paulej72 on Wednesday March 15 2017, @01:12AM (1 child)
Looks like SVG is mostly supported: http://svgtutorial.com/svg-browser-support/. [svgtutorial.com] I wonder how this would be for the older Android users?
Team Leader for SN Development
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday March 15 2017, @02:48PM
I think the age of the user doesn't matter. :-)
(Score: 2) by RedBear on Monday March 20 2017, @01:14AM
paulej72:
My mistake thinking TMB was responsible for the icons. The new ones are looking quite good. Both on the red bar and in the gray page background. Not as "crisp" as what I was imagining but these heavy outlines may actually be better, especially for smaller screens. Well done.
I'll now test the character-eating bug: @12:34 AM (and... Preview) Hey, it works now. Nice.
You're all doing great work. Take a break.
¯\_ʕ◔.◔ʔ_/¯ LOL. I dunno. I'm just a bear.
... Peace out. Got bear stuff to do. 彡ʕ⌐■.■ʔ
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 14 2017, @10:04PM
Instead of image based, why not just text? That should get the same rendering treatment than the phrases, titles, etc.