Awesome, AJ. I wrote about that this was coming http://friendfeed.com/e... - just didn't know how speedy (today's theme on FF) it would be. Kudos!
- Micah
Very nice. I changed the fonts back, but this is way nicer.
- Ted Roden
AJ: Thank you. This make the widescreen monitor I have dedicated to FF a whole lot more efficient.
- Ken Sheppardson
@ajbatac Thanks. I love it. I hope they uptake any of these designs. They really kill the default beta. Thanks again. A minor tweak is needed for the blue user bar for beta. Go to any user and notice the link text is too dark on the background. .subscribebar just needs to be lightened.
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awesome using it now, so much fresher
- Kyle Weller
@ajbatac here's a challenge for you :) in this widescreen version, move images to the right so that the post text and comments float to the left of them. I'm not sure i'll actually like that but i'd like to see how it looks (and i'm too lazy to play around with it myself any more :) but I'm thinking it'll help space the post better. Also, WRT to the ".subscribebar", i added the class to the ".bar" class and it made it light and nicely consistent with the other headers. Just another option. Thanks again.
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this looks 10x better than the beta ui, according to most people that tried this so far
- Kyle Weller
No, sorry, it only moves filters and subscriptions even farther to the right.and makes the text look very tiny and lost.
- Rebecca Lasley
w000t good job, you did very well. For Cea, use Greasemetal and use AJ's .js file and put it into the userjs folder created by greasemetal, you'll be running it in no time.
- Zu from AOD
Sexy blue and yellow, sexy fonts, how can we describe digital love for a service's JS redesign? Oh yeah, *virtually hugs AJ*. Is that Myriad Web btw?
- Zu from AOD
AJ, thanks. That's better. I really like your use of highlights in the comments. On the other hand, I prefer having a grey (or other) background rather than all white. It helps my eyes figure out where they're supposed to be.
- Rebecca Lasley
Fuck yes! Greasemonkey scripts for the win!
- Corvida
Might be able to be tweaked but check this out when added to this style: .media{float:right;} //(note: i haven't tested it on the narrow style. I suspect it'll be horrible. I have wide screen monitors)
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Cleaner FriendFeed Small Update (04/24/2009): -- search term highlighted with light teal green (As suggested by Kol Tregaskes. Thanks Kol!)
- AJ Batac (/-_-)
CleanerFriendFeed? The whole concept is built on a fallacy that the wider the text column, the easier it will be to read it. Wonder if you've ever heard of saccadic eye motion, i.e. the very mechanism by which we, representatives of genus Homo Sapiens, scan and acquire text in 50-to-60-something character chunks, "saccades." Having to scan across entire wide monitor actually lowers comprehension and the reading rate. The narrow main text column in the Beta release is actually close to perfection.
- ianf ⌘
Ianf ⌘ Not everybody who has good reading comprehension reads this way. And with respect, I've read of too many scientific studies that will refute themselves the next year, several years later or not even that long. But I appreciate the group who can read in this manner.
- Melanie Reed
Thank you, AJ for your hard work. I do like this quite a bit!
- Melanie Reed
Thank you, Ianf ⌘, for pointing me to this meme in your comment to me. I appreciate it! And I have installed it. :)
- Melanie Reed
And yes, like many of the others, I have a bigger monitor and this fills the screen quite nicely, again, many thanks to AJ! I agree with Susan Beebe that the blue, pink and yellow highlighters are very useful. Such an easy install. Very painless.
- Melanie Reed