Something else for the web interface: Client-side switching between the views of text/small/large artwork. Seems like this should be doable client-side, without requiring a trip to the server.
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appears to churn out terribly over-complex HTML. One thing I notice is an insane amount of white space in these pages that doesn't need to be there, but mostly it's the deep nesting of CSS styled blocks that looks unnecessary.
What you describe is essentially re-write the web UI to get rid of last decade's technical limitations, page loads, nested divs etc.. Yes, many of the effects nowadays could be done in pure CSS. I did replace some of it to improve page rendering time both client as server side, because creating HTML from the db data is what consumes most of the time. I added aggressive page caching to speed up delivery of a previously rendered pages, tried to optimize the templates etc.
But it's all just patch work, when the whole UI needs an overhaul. But that's a massive amount of work. It would be a great project to work on. But even thinking about the discussions UI work does trigger I'll rather run far away... :-)
Much of what you wish for I did do back when working on the Controller app. Yes, it's a web UI in a native package for iOS and Android. But it totally got rid of page loads. It was a single page application, with lots of JS loading data dynamically, rendering layouts etc. It's obviously possible. But the months I spent on that project were probably the hardest working time of my life. I was totally dedicated to that project. A luxury I no longer have.
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