"Tim (Fractal Footwork)" (fractalfootwork)
03/30/2014 at 17:43 • Filed to: Kinja, HTML Editor, OppositeLock
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"Tim (Fractal Footwork)" (fractalfootwork)
03/30/2014 at 17:43 • Filed to: Kinja, HTML Editor, OppositeLock | 7
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With Kinja updates come worry, stress, and eventual subordination as the fluidity catches up with the previous version. Here are a few things that have either have not been improved though each update, or have gotten worse. This is not a Kinja hate thread.
I would just like these points to be fixed with priority over visual tweaks.
1. HTML Editor
While I love the fact that I can use the HTML editor to make my posts do exactly what I want, they never do. The HTML editor needs to not bunch up all of the code to an unreadable state of goo. Here's what I mean...
Good/Readable HTML:
Kinja HTML:
There is no way I can read that, and if by chance I do, good luck trying to understand the new image code.
2. Pictures
This is a relatively recent problem I have come across. I make l !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . Pictures used to be moveable objects, kind of like text, but now there is this "x" on the corner, and if I misplaced an image now there is no moving it; this is especially painful it I have already closed the tab of the picture I was linking.
!!! UNKNOWN CONTENT TYPE !!!
Along with this I have noticed a weird
This is what a normal image html should look like, and does currently, but only after you have saved your post and come back to it.
This was much easier.
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3. Comments
Kinja comments aren't necessarily easy to understand for a first-timer, I am still getting used to them. This may prove a bad idea when trying to attract new commenters.
I don't get the "host" thing. Can't the top comments just the most recommended or with a large number of comments?
jkm7680
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
03/30/2014 at 17:52 |
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Good ideas, Sometimes the spell-check messes up and ads in extra letters, which is rather annoying to have to go back and manually correct.
CAcoalminer
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
03/30/2014 at 17:53 |
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I'm not technologically inclined so I can't comment on your first suggestion but the rest sound quite good.
UkuleleDan
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
03/30/2014 at 18:04 |
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If you add the image code yourself rather than using the WYSIWYG editor to do it you won't have to deal with the extra content stuff in the code. Also, you can still drag photos to new spots. It just creates a copy in the new location then you just click the X of the original to remove it.
Though once you move it the auto-formatting code shows up in the coding again. Bit of a nuisance.
Big Bubba Ray
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
03/30/2014 at 18:12 |
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The HTML editor is awful.
I'm getting used to the comment format, even though I think its terrible. I want the "highlights" and "all replies" tabs to disappear.
dawnell
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
03/30/2014 at 19:29 |
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When you come back to this discussion, you can be the host. Until then, Kinja will select one for you. Probably, by whatever is the computer version of picking a name out of a hat.
mxyzptlk
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
03/30/2014 at 19:43 |
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The picture thing has been especially strange. One of the other things I've noticed is that the pictures never really appear the way they do when you compose a post. Instead of being structured in a column with the text, so it reads
TEXT TEXT TEXT
PICTURE
TEXT
PICTURE
TEXT
Those two pictures now appear jumbled up together on the edge of the comment, and the text is in line with the rest of the text on the other side, and none of it is structured together like how you composed the post. So there's no way to really see what text is referring to what image.
Suggestion: Make images appear like they do when you compose the post, don't make them a freaking game of Boggle.
a_blackpanther
> Tim (Fractal Footwork)
03/31/2014 at 00:35 |
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Years of experience with LJ's html editor haves prepared me well for Kinja.