On this day 25 years ago, Bertrand Piccard and Brian Jones became the first to fly non-stop around the world in a balloon. They suffered multiple mechanical failures through their flight, resulting in a icy cold trip that was definitely not fun but historic nonetheless.
By the way, how do you like my new two-column layout? Since we’re very visual-focused, it makes sense to present Fedia’s thumbnails at their full 390x390 size. I still need to make it look better on small displays like phones, and I’m thinking I’ll allow more columns on wider displays. It’s too bad my CSS doesn’t federate to any other instances and isn’t used when browsing by tag.
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@hitstun@fedia.io that’s certainly impressive to be able to do that with CSS layered on top of the site. Perhaps there’s some stuff we can do to make it easier for you (like options for grid layouts). I’ve been working on using horizontal space more in places like shown in the images under the expand section this comment. Perhaps similar could be done for the articles themselves
@e-five@kbin.run Oh wow, thank you! I didn’t realize I had an Mbin developer in the crowd here. I come from Old Reddit where CSS is all we had to work with. People pull off some sorcery with CSS, such as /r/GlobalOffensive’s and /r/LeaguePBE’s sidebar craziness and /r/AdamNeely’s transparent background. It’s a shame my CSS doesn’t federate to other instances, so it’s only possible to see it on my own instance.
A few things would help, though:
- Add a magazine panel options to show thumbnails at their full size, which on Fedia is 380x380, togglable for the main page and for all article pages
- Make article pages download the attached image automatically and replace the thumbnail with the full image when loaded
- Fix formatting of the magazine description so the line breaks federate to other instances
- Get article badges working like Reddit post flairs
- Add a magazine panel option to allow multiple columns and specify the maximum columns allowed
- Throw an appropriate error message if an image I’m uploading is too large, which on Fedia is 6,000,000 bytes
- Add a CSS variable for if we’re currently in a dark mode
- Add a user option to restrict text string searches and tag searches to one magazine or all federated magazines
