The Planet

Nope, nvm. I'm using glimpse and though I can get it down to about 17kb by making the image 90x90 and compressing a bit, that's as small as it gets before it gets veeery ugly from compression.

Planets are fine with me though.

Bee wrote: ↑

Sat 11 Jul, 2020, 12:33 pm

First time I saw this I had no idea what you were talking about because I was on my phone xD

Anyway yeah, it's a little odd but I like it, I think??

Yeah I think it's an improved UI choice tbh, I've been putting sidebars on the right for years now lmao

Also I'm here on my phone for the first time and omg

OMG

THIS IS SUCH A NICE MOBILE LAYOUT this twenty year old forum software is showing up all the shitty mobile-first web apps, what a champ

corvabird wrote: ↑

Sat 11 Jul, 2020, 6:51 pm

Nope, nvm. I'm using glimpse and though I can get it down to about 17kb by making the image 90x90 and compressing a bit, that's as small as it gets before it gets veeery ugly from compression.

Planets are fine with me though.

What's the image you're using, the one Jake made? I can grab it from fedi and see what I can do with it if you want.

InspectorCaracal wrote: ↑

Sat 11 Jul, 2020, 7:03 pm

THIS IS SUCH A NICE MOBILE LAYOUT this twenty year old forum software is showing up all the shitty mobile-first web apps, what a champ

RIGHT?? I'm in absolute awe, it works on my tiny 4" screen, and it's fast, too!

Subject: is it just me....

corvabird wrote: ↑

Sat 11 Jul, 2020, 6:51 pm

Nope, nvm. I'm using glimpse and though I can get it down to about 17kb by making the image 90x90 and compressing a bit, that's as small as it gets before it gets veeery ugly from compression.

Planets are fine with me though.

I'm still not sure if you were intending to use the crow by Jake, but if you WERE, I threw it in Paint, shrank it to 90x90 and saved it as a jpg and it came out fine and under 6k

corvabird wrote: ↑

Sat 11 Jul, 2020, 6:51 pm

Nope, nvm. I'm using glimpse and though I can get it down to about 17kb by making the image 90x90 and compressing a bit, that's as small as it gets before it gets veeery ugly from compression.

Planets are fine with me though.

I have increased the avatar size caps significantly; you should have no further problems.

InspectorCaracal wrote: ↑

Sat 11 Jul, 2020, 7:03 pm

Also I'm here on my phone for the first time and omg

OMG

THIS IS SUCH A NICE MOBILE LAYOUT this twenty year old forum software is showing up all the shitty mobile-first web apps, what a champ

It's probs because this stuff is built on K.I.S.S. and "if it ain't broke" kind of ideas, I'd guess. Someone probably came to make it look sized right but otherwise I would not be surprised if they basically copied regular webcode or something?
But I am not a programmer so I'm just assuming.

katrani wrote: ↑

Sun 12 Jul, 2020, 1:47 am

InspectorCaracal wrote: ↑

Sat 11 Jul, 2020, 7:03 pm

Also I'm here on my phone for the first time and omg

OMG

THIS IS SUCH A NICE MOBILE LAYOUT this twenty year old forum software is showing up all the shitty mobile-first web apps, what a champ

It's probs because this stuff is built on K.I.S.S. and "if it ain't broke" kind of ideas, I'd guess. Someone probably came to make it look sized right but otherwise I would not be surprised if they basically copied regular webcode or something?
But I am not a programmer so I'm just assuming.

I think the KISS thing is probably on point, part of why it's great is it isn't trying to do all kinds of fancy bells and whistles. And doesn't give a shit about "streaming updates" lmao.

Although, in a point against phpBB, the default theme (which I modified to get this one) had the base font size at ten pixels. HARDCODED at ten pixels. lmfao. I changed it to 1em because I am a smart person who acknowledges that there are a lot of different screen sizes and viewer text-size preferences.

......TEN PIXELS

Omg this was built when everyone used Verdana for everything wasn't it

Bee wrote: ↑

Sun 12 Jul, 2020, 3:08 am

......TEN PIXELS

Omg this was built when everyone used Verdana for everything wasn't it

And the standard monitor resolution was 800x600 lmao

InspectorCaracal wrote: ↑

Sun 12 Jul, 2020, 5:52 am

And the standard monitor resolution was 800x600 lmao

This week I discovered that Dungeon Keeper 2 has an option of running at 400x300. How is anything even visible at that size?