>There are some tricky bits, like we'd have to load the content to know how tall it's going to be. And it stops working to a point... with a few hundred posts the scrollbar approaches an unusable size, and there could be thousands of posts.
With a fixed width like you have, you could probably calculate height upon submission and just have an accumulating cache of total thread height per thread.
As far as it not working in the extreme case, I'll point out it basically doesn't work in any case right now. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
> Categories actually used to be bold! but we ended up backing off on that because they were distracting from titles.
Bold was just an easy example. There's all kinds of ways you could make them differentiated beyond what appears to be the width of a double space between them. You could underline one, italicize, change the font size, change the color, put a '|' between them, put a box around each tag, etc. It's a design challenge, but hardly an insurmountable one.
> hopefully some of the stuff we're starting to work on now will move the needle in that direction.
I hope so too that one day landing on a discourse page when looking for information doesn't elicit an eyeroll from me. Clearly there's a talented team, and I wish you the best of luck.
With a fixed width like you have, you could probably calculate height upon submission and just have an accumulating cache of total thread height per thread.
As far as it not working in the extreme case, I'll point out it basically doesn't work in any case right now. Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.
> Categories actually used to be bold! but we ended up backing off on that because they were distracting from titles.
Bold was just an easy example. There's all kinds of ways you could make them differentiated beyond what appears to be the width of a double space between them. You could underline one, italicize, change the font size, change the color, put a '|' between them, put a box around each tag, etc. It's a design challenge, but hardly an insurmountable one.
> hopefully some of the stuff we're starting to work on now will move the needle in that direction.
I hope so too that one day landing on a discourse page when looking for information doesn't elicit an eyeroll from me. Clearly there's a talented team, and I wish you the best of luck.