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Feedback ยท Make expanded traits more compact (implemented)

Currently, when you expand a trait, it expands a lot. That's a problem for showing/hiding them, because upon expanding, the top spacing makes the trait jump from beneath the cursor to further down.

It might be better off if it was more compact, like so.

It would take a profile (which I picked at random from the global list) that looks like this when expanded, and make it look like this instead. With the lack of horizontal lines around the place, it looks neater, and with the preferences indented it makes it easier to distinguish them from the rest of the content. If you want to distinguish them further, add a border. (That's a left-margin and left-padding of 1rem each, with a left border and a 1rem bottom-left border radius.)

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endorsement points: 111

created: 17 January 15 at 03:45 AM (build: 1/14/2015 7:39 PM alpha)

closed: 20 January 15 at 01:20 AM (build: 1/20/2015 1:16 AM alpha)

Wrecked Avent Site Administrator

There might be something to indenting the preferences, but removing the borders actually seems to cause visual confusion for some people. Not too long ago I only had a bottom border on each expanded item (instead of bottom + top) and people were visually confusing an expanded trait with a non-expanded trait just above it.

Tyne

Huh, if it weren't for the pictures I probably wouldn't have chimed in on this! I was somebody who was confused when borders were bottom-only. However I personally find zero borders to be far far nicer to look at. I didn't expect that.

Bottom-borders were confusing to me because when items without borders were interspersed with items that had borders, it visually clustered them together into "groups" that had nothing to do with each other. But that's not happening here.

So my opinion: No borders > double borders > bottom borders

Tyne

Trying to imagine what other people might have trouble with. The one downside I see compared to having borders, is that it may become more difficult to tell which trait the preferences (the hearts) belong to. No idea how badly though.

Alva Hargrave

I was also very confused about the borders at first but this mockup basically shows that it looks a LOT less confusing than I thought it would. The key here is probably the indentation which makes the borders not feel very necessary anymore.

Anne Mayer

I would like it to be more compact as well. Indenting and other formatting changes would address the issue of needing to add borders and white space.

Wrecked Avent Site Administrator

Since the response to this has been overwhelming positive from users, people can now endorse this to show much they'd want it.

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