On May 1, 2013, at 3:45 PM, Steven Walling swalling@wikimedia.org wrote:
I have to say, especially in full chaos mode or the Jimmy Wales board I find the indenting to be quite hard to scan and read. One solution is to consider reducing to one indent level for all replies. The other direction we could go in is removing some of the heavier UI elements, and doing a progressive display of reply buttons and other actions on a post as you focus on it. I find multi-level indenting for threads is only really easy to scan when you have a lot of whitespace around blocks, ala Hacker News or our current style of indenting in MediaWiki, so reducing some of many elements on the page would help me scan more. The difficulty scanning might also in part be due to the fixed width of the prototype.
In earlier versions, you could control the visual indent level from the left side. It broke when I switch to a different nesting system; I can try to bring that back.
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