Topic: suggestions for improvements (hopefully; need review/community poll)

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 Posted at: 2025-10-16, 20:09 UTC+2.0

I hope I could clarify my suggestions face-smile.png

  1. Forum: A user can give a thumb up (or a supporting smiley perhaps?) or down for any post (except his own?).
    (Forum: Man kann einen Daumen hoch oder runter für jeden Beitrag geben.)
  2. Profile: a user can not only specify his favourite tribe, but also a sequence for them. Let's say ”1. Barbarians; 2. Empire“ or ”1. Atlanteans; 2. Frisians; 3. Amazons", e. g.
    (Profil: Man kann eine Reihenfolge der Lieblingsstämme angeben. Z. B.: „1. Barbaren; 2. Imperium“ oder „1. Atlanter; 2. Friesen; 3. Amazonen“.)

Gerade arbeite ich eher sporadisch an einer Idee für einen neuen Satz Stämme: die Allianz in unterschiedlichen Varianten.

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Posted at: 2025-10-17, 09:46 UTC+2.0

usingUser wrote

I hope I could clarify my suggestions face-smile.png

  1. Forum: A user can give a thumb up (or a supporting smiley perhaps?) or down for any post (except his own?).
    (Forum: Man kann einen Daumen hoch oder runter für jeden Beitrag geben.)

As already written in the other topic i am working on this.

  1. Profile: a user can not only specify his favourite tribe, but also a sequence for them. Let's say ”1. Barbarians; 2. Empire“ or ”1. Atlanteans; 2. Frisians; 3. Amazons", e. g.
    (Profil: Man kann eine Reihenfolge der Lieblingsstämme angeben. Z. B.: „1. Barbaren; 2. Imperium“ oder „1. Atlanter; 2. Friesen; 3. Amazonen“.)

Not sure about that, what do other think about this idea?

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Posted at: 2025-10-19, 23:59 UTC+2.0

Personally, I think just showing one preference is enough, a list may clutter up things.

The aussies are coming, ya ho! ya ho!

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Posted at: 2025-11-07, 20:04 UTC+1.0

usingUser wrote

I hope I could clarify my suggestions face-smile.png

  1. Forum: A user can give a thumb up (or a supporting smiley perhaps?) or down for any post (except his own?).
    (Forum: Man kann einen Daumen hoch oder runter für jeden Beitrag geben.)

This change is now implemented. You may have to press CTRL+F5 to make the change visible. You will find a button "React on this post" on the bottom right side of each post, except for posts written by your own.

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Posted at: 2025-11-07, 21:14 UTC+1.0

Thank you for implementing this great feature face-smile.png

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Posted at: 2025-11-24, 22:04 UTC+1.0

I just noticed that the mouse cursor is invisible when hovering to see who reacted on a post with which reaction. Checking the browser inspector reveals a CSS rule .post .signature .reactionList { cursor: none; }. What's the reason for this? Personally I find it rather disorienting when I can't see the mouse cursor while the cursor's positioning actively interacts with the UI.

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The reason was that janus pointed out that using a big cursor will be shown above the list of users preventing reading the usernames. I have tried to move the list up, like shown here, but this was also not a good solution. So the consensus was to hide the cursor while hovering. But yes, this annoys me also a bit. We can restrict the area where the cursor is none to the corresponding icon itself, but this can lead to flickering of the cursor.

Any other ideas welcome face-smile.png

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 Posted at: Yesterday 01:27 UTC+1.0

Couldn't you set the cursor to some known small image instead of none in the CSS?

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Posted at: Yesterday 12:10 UTC+1.0

It's possible to set the cusror image to an own image, e.g. a smiley( face-smile.png ) or the image for quoting (q):

cursor: url('../img/smileys/face-smile.png'), auto;
cursor: url('../forum/img/quote.png'), auto;

Or we create a new image especially for this. I have currently no idea for such a new image.

Edited: Yesterday 12:24 UTC+1.0
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Posted at: Yesterday 12:32 UTC+1.0

IMHO a custom image would be overkill and not actually make anything clearer. if obscuring the list is the only concern, how about using one of cursor: crosshair, cursor: help, or cursor: not-allowed?

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