I hand-made this preview, it won't be exactly as it is.

Actually, it was DTBK's idea of making icons twice the size of the online/offline button to put on the place of the "Rank: Veteran", so it's better he talk about this =o

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jul 26 2010, 8:47 pm by Adeon.

Remove that rank indicator at the bottom altogether. It's irrelevant. Even assuming that the icons-next-to-names aren't well known, we don't need people to know the rank of every poster. Or at least give me the option to turn that off.

I'm down for something below the offline//contact if it's relevant, like favorite race, # of post or something...

That's the plan AFAIK =o
And instead of showing the smaller one on the postings, the bigger would be shown, this makes easier to learn what each icon means for newbies.

But well, these are only ideas, nothing has been done yet actually.

well fuck it's still ugly.

I can't see it looking decent in that style without having to make your own online/offline bars. The ones I made just don't have.... uh... flexibility.

Will it be too cluttered with the rank there if we put "Reputation," "Minerals," or some other thing? There's no definite for this, I'm just throwing it out there.

Yeah devlin, nothing is definite here yet, which kinda pisses me off when someone comes just to say that it's crap.
I think it's a good idea to put more info under our avatars too...

Nice try rockz. Hopefully we'll find a design that looks good

I like the Elite next to my name, but I still think putting a rank there at all is unnecessary and ugly. I probably wouldn't even put minerals or reputation under that, because I like clean designs (Maybe remove titles altogether? Throwing it out there)

Idea: When you mouse over the name of the poster, a box appears with quick info about him, including rank, minerals, reputation, 'PM this Member', etc. Good?

So essentially what the Contact thing does, but with more info? We could just change "Contact" in that case.

I like this idea. Saves the effort of profile stalking.

We could also add some customization to profiles, like a memo of some sort. No background customization plz -_-.

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jul 26 2010, 11:20 pm by LoTu)S.

then it's a mini profile. No thanks.

Edit for cent:
I see no reason to have a second profile. you still have to click/hover to see it, so it's no different than clicking on the person's name. That is my opinion on the matter. I agree that there is too much crap there. I would rather have:
Name
Staff Status ("Administrator", "Moderator", "Global Moderator")
Avatar
Title
Rank (only say "Member", "Veteran" or "Elite", no fancy images)
Status + contact (online, offline image and contact, with non-picture text)

Post has been edited 1 time(s), last time on Jul 26 2010, 11:44 pm by rockz.

Well, then there would be no point on having the "last 5 visitors" on the profile. OR you could make the option of the user to check what he wants to be available through this mouse-over box.

Oh, I didn't know Contact did that. Well, yes, basically. I'd just like to keep posts as clean and ugly-free as possible, and sticking all that extra info you want in a separate box does that well.

If you want to go further, an even more minimalistic idea: Remove all name colors (maybe keep mine, eh?), Titles, the Rank display, Online/Contact. Name would be colored green-white if person is online and red-white if he's offline, and mousing over name would display the box with contact info and other information. Increase maximum avatar dimensions and decrease maximum signature height. You get bigger avatars, and because people generally recognize each other on forums based on avatars, that's good. You also get less clutter and less wasted vertical space on posts, allowing you to get the same content for less scrolling.

By the way, why is there a ten pixel gap between posts?

Also, Rockz... saying "no thanks" without giving a reason is like spamming. Please tell me what's wrong with my ideas so I can refine them.

By the way, the report/quote buttons also waste some vertical space. Since the signature bounds are quite restricted, we have a major blank space to the sides. Why not using it to place these buttons to save some space? Also, the gaps between posts are really a bad idea.

Other issues:
The BG color of threads are gray if you are logged off.
The online/contact buttons aren't aligned corretly, even though they appear right if you visit the page logged off.

I don't believe they waste space. Check my siggy. The "back to top" button does, though.

No, Cent, I'm talking about this:

And the yellow box shows an ever-unused space.

Also, I think it looks better without this little bar here:

Sounds like Christmas . Even so, if you see someone is online, not much you can do to directly contact them except for PM's, forums and shoutbox (Private channels too but that was removed ). It would also make SEN a bit too gimmicky . This is just my opinion, since ppl on SEN don't contact me anyways I still like the additional info when mouse hovering though.

Btw, since we got new "online" and "contact" sign, are we gonna have a new "banned" sign as well?

A red button replacing the Online button saying Banned?

As long as the reason of the ban is exposed somewhere (otherwise it'd be useless), that could work.

Since most people on SEN play nice now and banned people post's are in old topics, i suppose there wouldn't be much use for the sign.

However it wouldn't take long to make a banned sign to match with the existing ones anyways. ( A suspended sign could work also?)