the ability to select multiple tags when tracking users and communities

[amber]

Title:
the ability to select multiple tags when tracking users and communities

Area:
tracking communities and journals

Summary:
Being able to select multiple tags at once on the tracking page for users and communities.

Referring to this page:

http://www.dreamwidth.org/manage/tracking/user?journal=dw_news

(using dw_news as an example)

Description:
When adding or removing tags from the tag page or an entry, users can type tags or select from the drop-down menu, and when editing tags the ability to select or delesect multiple with shift or ctrl clicking is incredibly useful.

I was wondering if something like this could be implemented when selecting tags to track for a community or journal? As the current system stands, if I wish to receive notifications a community with tags for, say, multiple pairings, and I want to track at least fifteen of those tags, I have to select one from the dropdown menu, track it, select another, track it, etc. It isn't a major inconvenience but <i>especially</I> now that I am retracking a lot of communities and users that have imported from LiveJournal, I would prefer to be able to mass-select a whole bunch of tags. I feel like maybe this is a feature that would also be appreciated by the LiveJournal rpers who have recently crossed over.

The reason I mention shift/ctrl clicking is because I feel like it is intuitive and requires very little explanation on the page, and it is a system already in place when it comes to tagging entries. I think being able to type something and see the options that appear (i.e. typing "character" and getting all tags that include the word character) would be incredibly helpful for communities or users with many, many tags especially if they are making use of the tiered tag system.

The potential drawbacks that I can see...

I don't know enough about code to be able to say if this is a large recode job, but it feels like the code used for selecting tags in the "edit tags on this entry" pages is different to the "track this community" pages.

Clutter: a small dropdown box is simple and takes little room. This idea may require more space on the page to be able to enter or select tags.

Users may accidentally select more or incorrect tags to track and because it is a more "intrusive" feature than simply tagging an entry (because it send the updates to your email or inbox) this could annoy or upset people.

Poll #9003 the ability to select multiple tags when tracking users and communities

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 62

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Should be implemented as-is.
36 (58.1%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
2 (3.2%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
0 (0.0%)

(I have no opinion)
23 (37.1%)

(Other: please comment)
1 (1.6%)

Increased font size on Tropospherical site scheme

[momijizukamori]

Title:
Increased font size on Tropospherical site scheme

Area:
Site scheme (Tropospherical)

Summary:
At the moment, Tropo shows entry and comment text at 75% of browser default. This winds up being a bit on the small side, compared to other similar websites, which leads to squinting and headaches after lots of site-schemed page reading for people who don't usually experience these problems, particularly as Tropo Red is the 'default' people who are new to the site see. Increasing this a bit (I would suggest 0.85em) would increase readability

Description:
This came about as a result of some of the LJ-migration recently, where a number of people who are not usually photosensitive mentioned getting headaches after browsing on both Tropo Red and Tropo Purple for a while. I did some poking about in CSS, and discovered that the 0.75em size scales text down to a bit smaller than the size I usually see on blogs or LJ's old site schemes. It's basically in that range of 'just enough change to cause problems, not enough change to be immediately noticeable'.

I wrote a quick Stylish script to increase font size to 0.82em (along with a slightly smaller line height, but I think it's the font-size that's the core issue) and got feedback that yes, it was a lot more readable that way. 0.82em is kind of weird, and I'd probably just say round up 0.85em to be neat about it.

The problem with writing it as a Stylish script, though, is that any time someone is not at their home computer, it's back to site default (and I do realize that there are other site schemes, but most people I've talked to don't like the horizontal navigation of Celerity and find black-background even harder to read). Increasing the font-size just a bit should be a fairly easy fix (unless it's not in CSS styling? I haven't had a chance to poke through files), and it's not a big enough change to negatively affect users who didn't have the problem with the smaller font size while helping people who do.

Poll #9005 Increased font size on Tropospherical site scheme

Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 81

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Should be implemented as-is.
33 (40.7%)

Should be implemented with changes. (please comment)
23 (28.4%)

Shouldn't be implemented.
8 (9.9%)

(I have no opinion)
17 (21.0%)

(Other: please comment)
0 (0.0%)