A couple of interface suggestions

I propose a couple of interface tweaks, one for forum jump navigation, the other for the ChocoJournal link on the menu bar above.

ChocoJournal

Is it possible to add a popup to ChocoJournal the same way "View Posts" have been enhanced? Something similar to this would be nice:

ChocoJournal

Recent Buddy Entries

Today's entries

Your Journal

Comments Received

Make new Entry

I don't have the exact URL for "Your Journal" - this is user-id dependent but could surely be tailored for whoever's logged in, right?

Forum Jump Drop-Down List

I'm sure we can agree that the current list is longer than it should - due to a proliferation of subforums in many of the contests. I propose limiting the 'levels' to 2 forum (or even just a parent forum) level, and moving the "Site Areas" section all the way to the end.

A two-forum level setup would still show all the active forums, ie "Political Palace" is level 1, and "Red and Blue" is level 2. This will affect the Archive forums however, since "General Discussion Archives" count as level 1, and any of the subfora below it is level 2. So archived brackets won't be viewable.

If there is opposition to such a setup, would it be possible to make this controllable by the user? Such that users can choose how many outline levels they wish the drop-down list to incorporate?

Submitted for your approval!

Can we also do this for the moderation action panel? I always get lost in the archived forums whenever I'm trying to move a thread to temp delete.

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

Can we also do this for the moderation action panel? I always get lost in the archived forums whenever I'm trying to move a thread to temp delete.

Why not just soft delete threads? It's not like anything ever gets moved out of Temp Delete and you can restore soft deleted threads just as easily anyway.

Because I always forget about all these new fangled features.

If we're throwing interface suggestions out there, and this is a tiny thing, could you sort out the tab stops with regard to the main textarea on the New Chocojournal Entry form, since if you tab from the title field you end up in Now Playing and the Mood, etc, until you eventually get to the textarea. It's odd, because if you go add text to that area and then try tabbing from the title it works, but a blank textarea causes it to end up further down the list of stops.

Originally Posted by Zergrinch

Is it possible to add a popup to ChocoJournal the same way "View Posts" have been enhanced?

YES WE CAN

Originally Posted by Zergrinch

I propose limiting the 'levels' to 2 forum (or even just a parent forum) level

YES WE CAN

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

Can we also do this for the moderation action panel?

YES WE CAN

Originally Posted by OmagnusPrime

could you sort out the tab stops with regard to the main textarea on the New Chocojournal Entry form

YES WE CAN

I like everything, EXCEPT THAT, you should add a "Chocojournal Home" link to the pop-down menu.

I fully approve of the ChocoJournal drop down menu, but it would be rather nice to still be able to access the main ChocoJournal page with recent comments and props and so forth. Unless, that is, it's totally easy to get there and I'm just some asshole who can't figure out the new layout, in which case, please learn my ass.

EDIT: oh, what Dark Nation said.

Yeah, I noticed that the text doesn't work as a link like thirty seconds after I posted.

Before I saw your posts I made it so the "ChocoJournal" header in the menu is a link to the journal main page; would you guys like it better if I make a "ChocoJournal Home" item instead?

For consistency, yes.

Yeah, it's a lot more obvious this way, let's roll with it.

Additional Spam:
Popup menu now only shows up when you click the arrow, so for all you people who don't like fancy shiny things clicking the text will take you to the main page like it always did.

Good work CHz, I'm liking the new Chocojournal drop-down.

One TINY thing is still bugging me (But good work otherwise):

The drop-down menu on the other stuff has the menu open below the text. On the chocojournal, it opens to the bottom-right of the text, instead of directly below like on the other menu options (View Post, Search, Quick Links, etc.,).

A visual aide for those with [?] over their heads:

Hooray. Way to go, CHz!

I would have honestly preferred the initial method used, similar to the View Posts drop-down (but eh, clicking on a drop-down arrow works)

Originally Posted by RacinReaver

Can we also do this for the moderation action panel? I always get lost in the archived forums whenever I'm trying to move a thread to temp delete.

You still moderate around here?

Fuck, you're an old mod.

I move an adspam thread to temp delete about once a month. ;_;

(Giving me a total of around 80 mod actions since I started.)

Originally Posted by Dark Nation

The drop-down menu on the other stuff has the menu open below the text. On the chocojournal, it opens to the bottom-right of the text, instead of directly below like on the other menu options

Side effect of making it so you can still click on the word "ChocoJournal" and go directly to the journal home page.

Oh ok. I like consistency for interfaces, but its not a big deal.