Re: Sort of bug - message index.
Reply #1 –
I would say likes are relevant but views are not.
Re: Sort of bug - message index.
Reply #2 –
TBH I'm not even sure replies are relevant. Maybe on a support board where you want to know if anyone has replied at all, but then if the last post isn't by the same person as the OP, that answers that question.
Number of replies once people start replying? Who cares? If there's no mini page index for the thread, then there is less than one full page of replies. If it says 1 and 2, there is somewhere between one full page and two full pages. If it says 1234......257, it's a big thread. That's really enough information, the vast majority of the time.
Depends how ruthless you want to get.
Re: Sort of bug - message index.
Reply #3 –
I don't agree. It might not be relevant in detail, but the eye catches the differences: i.e. I see immediately the difference between 5 replies and 155 replies (even without the other visual clues, pages of replies, hot topic icons). Also, I see immediately '1', more than checking posters.
Re: Sort of bug - message index.
Reply #4 –
I wonder if the number of views is actually so useful...
It is sometimes increased by bots in the range of hundreds per minute on random topics (in the sense that a random topic is "attacked" and its counter goes up without any meaning).
Re: Sort of bug - message index.
Reply #5 –
I was taking a look at the latest vB (5) and they have the three on three lines. TBH I think this makes a lot of sense.
They also put the view as second of the list, I don't know if they did on purpose of if by mistake, though to me it make sense as well, because since the number of view tends to be one or two orders of magnitude higher than the other two values it becomes a "natural" separator that helps in identify the other two (so you know the one before the longest is replies, the one after is likes).
I'd propose to split the views/likes line on Elk as well.
Re: Sort of bug - message index.
Reply #7 –
This seems to have been moved to exterminated area but it looks even more annoying to me now. The height of topic row is unnecessarily and annoyingly high. The least that can be done would be to give line-height: 1.2em and font-size: 0.9em to .topic_stats class. Also, I think it would be sensible to get rid of the lone arrow icon there leading to the last post. The date of the last post could be linked to the last post itself in its stead.
Re: Sort of bug - message index.
Reply #8 –
I don't recall all the iterations on this one, at one time we had them on 2 lines and then back to 3. That area has always been a trouble spot for various reasons. Anyway, yeah I agree that there is to much white space in that area, makes the area taller than it needs to be.
Never gave much thought to that icon TBH, sounds reasonable to remove it and add a link to the last post time.
Re: Sort of bug - message index.
Reply #10 –
Well, as usual you ask 10 people you get 20 answers.
I actually get used to have some space on the message index and not everything crowded up like in the original theme.
So, I would agree with the font-size 0.9, but for the line-height I would keep it at least 1.5em.
In future themes it may be worth exploring the option to move the likes to some image with the locked/pinned icons for example.
Re: Sort of bug - message index.
Reply #12 –
I think all three should be there. It's easy to customize it anyway.
Although I don't think extra padding is necessary, if that's the intention, I think it should be added properly and not through a side effect of putting 3 lines (with the same line-height) in a row intended for 2.