1. Breadcrumbs -- so when you're in a given folder, you have a link somewhere (top and bottom), I'm guessing to the parent folder, not just the root, as we have now.
2. Access to folders at the same level as the thread you're reading, from
inside
the thread -- so you don't have to come back to the list of threads to select a given folder.
I think #1 is important, and #2 might not be workable or worth it. Just wondering on the formatting for both.
Also -- for the triangles indicating the folders right now on the front page -- I don't think a) that triangles are accurate in this context, and 2. that listing them vertically scales well.
Breadcrumbs
So none of this matters if you're using Message Center, correct?
a) that triangles are accurate in this context
I have seen triangles elsewhere used this exact same way. I know that doesn't make it right, but I still feel that it's the best graphic for the situation. I didn't think any of the other suggestions were any better.
2. that listing them vertically scales well.
Not sure what you mean. They look right to me.
So none of this matters if you're using Message Center, correct?
If you use it solely as the means to navigate from thread to thread, no. But when you're in a thread, you're a variable number of clicks from its parent folder, and that's not good.
I didn't think any of the other suggestions were any better.
Even the folders? The purist in me cries out for bullets in just about any other shape. Those folders are begging to be clicked on to expand.
They look right to me.
They do now. But they push the thread list down -- and when one scales up to, say, fifteen folders, I think we're wasting real estate.
Just out of curiousity, is there any reason they couldn't be made expandable?
Other than my laziness? Not really.
ita, the script kiddies seem to be trying something different. Check the admins mailbox.
Dammit. They found the 'email the admins' page.
I'm going to temporarily disable it, and then doublecheck the code when I get more time.
Why are they so interested in us?
Because we're very pretty.
Dammit. They found the 'email the admins' page.
I swear, the "Mission: Impossible" theme went through my head at that.
