On Fri, Oct 16, 2015 at 2:06 PM, mray <m...@mray.de> wrote:


On 16.10.2015 04:57, Stephen Michel wrote:

 On Thu, Oct 15, 2015 at 6:29 PM, mray <m...@mray.de> wrote:
After some discussions with wolftune it dawned on me that we probably
 have to stick to our discussion/ticket system.

 Stick to our discussion/ticket system as opposed to...?

... something that can be considered a finished product.


I thought we might as well make it more usable then. Here is where we
 currently are:

 https://img.bi/#/tMpXHzF!jefIs_vKO6A8a2S4CFDwDg6TK4Qw9JNMzHkb99u5


 Any feedback?

The border around the inner shaded posts is not dark enough for me to clearly distinguish the border. Making all the inner borders the same
 darkness makes a world of difference, though it's a small change:

 https://img.bi/#/q1mhu9l!A8SXKRNJ6v3l9RTgHGn1KgyWq8kxDnUxc0OV1fO-

 ~Stephen


It is ok not to be able to distinguish the border.
The border has the sole purpose of highlighting the change of background
color. And even that does not have to be something that needs to be
distinguished clearly.

The main goal is to make it easy to read the connection of posts in
terms of partents and children so that you don't get confused.
indentation is probably the biggest mechanism that cares about that,
background and borders are just supposed to help.

The really dark border at the very left is just to indicate that this is
the topmost post and you're not missing any context.

I think I may have been unclear. Here's your original image, with borders and posts identified.

https://img.bi/#/bZHUWcV!bS6MpE0KIso8MSg8f3vDKgXjvYNBVP4rF6i3RKD-

Border 1 is very dark.
Border 2 is dark.
Border 3 and 4 are light. So light that it is difficult for me to pick out the borders of post A and B.
This makes posts A and B run together for me.

I propose changing borders 3 and 4 to be the same darkness as border 2 (maybe it's just a rendering issue, but borders 3 and 4 are lighter in the image. In my earlier image, I changed the top and left borders of post A to be in the style of border 2. That's all I'm proposing.



Robert

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