Some feedback from fellow Dutch mappers (including me). Several Dutch mappers find the user interface way to large and to busy. The old forum looked more simplistic (of course, it is a new system so you canât fully compare but still). On discourse, the start page icons are way to large and to much information is provided. On the contrary, the links to the sub forums for all the countries are really small.
This makes the looks of Discourse really unpleasent.
Thanks for the feedback, there are still just a few communities created, but as soon as there are more coming, a proper analysis should be done to see how to accommodate everyoneâs experience.
In my opinion this should be done from a user experience lens on what issues there are with the current UI, why and what do users want to accomplish in a better way.
This can be easily disabled (category logo) if the Dutch community prefers, letâs comment any Dutch-category specific changes on the request topic.
The ârather largeâ icons need to be max. a quarter of their current size. As a rule it shouldnât be necessary to scroll to see the top level categories.
A quick easy fix would be to set the category logo images to a 60% width:
.category-logo.aspect-image img {
width: 60%;
}
Note that no css changes have been made yet because the technical time has been invested in other fronts. @Firefishy might be able to comment on his though around css improvements to the forum, since he is the one maintaining the whole technical aspects of the site.
What about disabling the icons entirely? Take a look at this example: https://foodshift.se
I really like this design. A nice, short description at the top. Also the colors on the front page are much more balanced. The front page is not so busy as ours.
Why not create two themes?
One Theme with the icons (a little bit smaller please) and one without the icons. Every User could change it by him or herself.
This doesnât fix the problem reported here. The site still looks rubbish compared to the nice clean layout of the old forum - there are massive pictures filling the screen that add no value, it looks like a four-year-old has gone mad with some crayons. Why canât we just get rid of those altogether?
(Note that Iâm changing max-width in Developer Tools, as width seems to be auto-calculated to preserve aspect ratio - at current version of the community.osm.org website?)
Thanks for your explanation. It would have been great to get this information immediately after the revert so we could have used the time to come up with the necessary CSS âŠ