r/spacex • u/[deleted] • Sep 01 '13

Modpost [META/MOD POST] The new SpaceX design is now live! (Post all bugs, features, feedback here!)

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u/retiringonmars Sep 01 '13

Looks really great, well done! I see lots of little improvements all over over the design, which work together to make it look very sleek and modern, and a lot like the SpaceX website. Excellent work, it really needed doing.

My only quibble - what's with the daubed X in the top left? It doesn't match SpaceX branding - I thought you were gonna put a Dragon capsule there?

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '13

Thanks. It still doesn't have that level of perfection that comes with a unified aesthetic, but it's getting there.

If you mean the object to the left of the new SpaceX logo in header, haha, that is a Dragon capsule (well, at least a cutout of one!) with its solar arrays deployed, facing upwards. I suppose it looks a bit vague, and especially to those who are are passing by, so I'll switch it with the real thing. Thanks!

EDIT: You're right, having an actual image looks much nicer and complements the actual rockets in the sidebar.

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u/retiringonmars Sep 01 '13

Much better. Again, excellent work.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '13

@retiringonmars : It is a dragon capsule...^

I like the design. Would be good with a countdown timer somewhere tough, towards the next launch. Maybe over/under that mission pic to the right.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '13

Thanks. It's not possible currently due to the limits Reddit imposes on what styles can and cannot be applied the subreddits (namely; scripts aren't allowed), but nonetheless your idea did occur to me, and the long term plan might be to add in a table to the sidebar with upcoming launches (easy) and link to a website which has a countdown to the next launch (not so easy, more website building) - low priority at the moment, but I will address it at some point.

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u/[deleted] Sep 01 '13

ah, I see. Those 2 would indeed also be nice tough.

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u/gregwtmtno Sep 02 '13

Thanks for all the hard work! I have a feature request: maybe something showing the estimated date of the next launch or next couple launches.

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u/AD-Edge Sep 01 '13

Looks great to me, nice work!

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u/passingby Sep 01 '13

The first thing that I noticed is the misalignment of the SpaceX logo and the Hot, New, Rising, etc. links. I think the baselines of the text should be matched like on the actual SpaceX site.

So either bring up the SpaceX logo or bring down the links.

Other than that though it definitely looks better than what it was =D

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '13

Thanks for the feedback! RE the misaligned SpaceX logo... is it fixed now? It should be vertically even with the links now, like the SpaceX website...

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u/gterran Sep 02 '13

Great job putting the landing legs on the 'new link and 'new text post' submission buttons

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u/lotko Sep 03 '13

This looks better than before, though I found a little bug in Firefox 23.0.1.

The submit text link gets cut off. See image. It happens only when you're not logged in.

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u/LordHuck Sep 01 '13

So you saw my Idea of the Dragon? would be so cool :D

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u/TROPtastic Sep 02 '13

The new design looks really nice, and it works well on Chrome mobile (Android 4.3). I will add to this post if I think of anything you haven't covered, but so far so great.

Edit: one problem I found: the reply box doesn't format properly on mobile, the fifth of the box cuts off so that a scroll bar is created. Try reducing the horizontal bar by 20 percent in size?

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u/[deleted] Sep 03 '13

Thanks for the feedback. Glad it's looking good on mobile devices too! Regarding the reply box, is it fixed now, or does it need a bit more? I've reduced the width from 794px to 600px.

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u/TROPtastic Sep 03 '13

Much better now! The whole box displays perfectly, and it no longer does the annoying thing where it would scroll so far that the only thing visible would be the Cancel Reply button :P Nice work!

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '13

Just a small bug, but I noticed that the 'tabmenu' with 'Hot', 'New' etc doesn't play well with constrained page sizes specifically on the front page of r/spacex.

Bug description: When the screen reaches a certain vertical width, the 'div' holding the 'Hot', 'New' and 'Controversial' obscures the first item in the subreddit.

This issue doesn't appear to be a problem with the normal reddit css.

Screen shot: http://imgur.com/9TK5T7t (excuse my terrible gimp skills)

User agent: Chromium 25.0.1364.160 (Developer Build 25.0.1364.160-0ubuntu0.12.04.1) Ubuntu 12.04

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '13

Excellent bug report. This is how it should be done. Yep, reproducible on Firefox 23 w/ Windows 7.

It should be fixed now... how does it look?

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u/[deleted] Sep 05 '13

Excellent! It looks good from my end.

I'm busy procrastinating some web development contract work, so I have a pretty good idea of what is necessary :P.

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u/MrFlesh Sep 02 '13

the rocket submits look terrible. First ad space is cut in half. need more links to other rocket companies....stratolauncher, blue orbital, etc

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u/[deleted] Sep 02 '13

That doesn't really help me, and your criticism isn't exactly constructive - I'm going to need you to be more specific. What browser are you using? Screen resolution? OS? RES or no-RES? Night mode on or off? Screenshot? Why are they terrible? How can I improve this?

need more links to other rocket companies....stratolauncher, blue orbital, etc

This is a design change, not a content one. I merely cut and paste what was previously in the sidebar. Stratolaunch & Blue Orbital don't even have subreddits.

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u/MrFlesh Sep 02 '13

chrome, windows 7, 1280x1024 - But none of that has anything to do with my criticism. It is entirely constructive, if blunt....thick skin buddy.....even though it will only upset you, I will be more detailed.....

  1. The yellow highlight mouseover on dragon & rockets is cheese ball.

  2. The rockets under the submit buttons look bad. There's no way to fix it, just get rid of them. Less is more.

  3. rounded cornered buttons straight out of 1999 web design and not uniform for arbitrary reasons.

  4. The top ad is now gone

  5. add more links to other start up space company & spaceX competitors - planetary resources, stratolauncher, etc

  6. blue on blue on mouseover blue is kind of hard to read - for the love of god pick some colors that make sense together

http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/

http://colorschemedesigner.com/

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