{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/flarum/core/issues/133","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/flarum/core/issues/133/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/flarum/core/issues/133/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/flarum/core/issues/133/events","html_url":"https://github.com/flarum/core/issues/133","id":89718625,"number":133,"title":"Make post divisions/contextual controls more obvious","user":{"login":"tobscure","id":128862,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/128862?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/tobscure","html_url":"https://github.com/tobscure","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tobscure/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tobscure/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tobscure/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tobscure/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tobscure/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tobscure/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tobscure/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tobscure/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/tobscure/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/flarum/core/labels/design","name":"design","color":"fbca04"},{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/flarum/core/labels/frontend","name":"frontend","color":"006b75"}],"state":"closed","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":7,"created_at":"2015-06-20T05:09:55Z","updated_at":"2015-06-23T09:43:05Z","closed_at":"2015-06-23T01:08:36Z","body":"![screen shot 2015-06-20 at 2 28 35 pm](https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/128862/8266076/e2810496-1758-11e5-9c8a-b0758708c360.png)\r\n\r\nFlarum makes heavy use of whitespace to keep things clean. However, since there are no lines or obvious divisions to guide the eyes:\r\n1. Posts can sometimes kind of blend in to each other, especially with \"event posts\" (when a discussion is stickied or re-tagged)\r\n2. Contextual controls can be very difficult to find (and it's not easy to tell which post they're for)\r\n\r\nPossible solutions:\r\n- Increase whitespace below event posts. Naturally they have less because they don't have a \"Reply\" control, but really they should match the rest of the posts.\r\n- Remove or relocate the timestamp on event posts.\r\n- Add light horizontal rules between each post (not keen, I feel like it makes the discussion feel more segmented, inhibits its flow)\r\n- Use a colored background and put each post in a white box (not keen, a theme could do this but I want to try and keep the default theme white).\r\n- Move the contextual controls button to the left hand side, just next to the timestamp\r\n- Make the contextual controls button always visible but faded out"},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/flarum/core/issues/comments/114422748","html_url":"https://github.com/flarum/core/issues/133#issuecomment-114422748","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/flarum/core/issues/133","id":114422748,"user":{"login":"franzliedke","id":249125,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/249125?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/franzliedke","html_url":"https://github.com/franzliedke","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/franzliedke/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/franzliedke/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/franzliedke/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/franzliedke/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/franzliedke/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/franzliedke/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/franzliedke/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/franzliedke/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/franzliedke/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-06-23T09:43:05Z","updated_at":"2015-06-23T09:43:05Z","body":"Hmm, interesting. I actually liked the cards-style look you posted above and very much dislike the horizontal rules. On one monitor, I can barely see them anyway. On the other one, they break up the reading flow.\r\n\r\nHere's my suggestion: how about a vertical line connecting the avatars? For marking the end of a post, we have multiple options:\r\n- a small gap in the line\r\n- a short horizontal line branching off from the vertical one before a post\r\n- \"suggesting\" a box around each post by only drawing the top left (and maybe the bottom right) corner\r\n\r\nAnd, of course, we can still try to make the posts themselves look more compact, while slightly increasing the whitespace between posts."}}