New Feature: Scrolling to Fans or Favorite Artists

Kirbyt

I wanted to feel like a horizontal scroll bar for left to right to see all of your fans and favorite artists.

Go ahead and say "This is a bad idea" because you think it's weird. Rolling Eyes

Should I explain more?

OK. First off, this feature can let you scroll left to right to look at all of your fans and favorite artists you have now. This is for when you see your "oldest" people that are not shown that you want to talk to or comment on their pictures.

AnimeEmo · Newb Joined: 14 Jun 2008 Posts: 14

Like the one on iTunes, its like a circular reel? I think one stetching across the whole page would be really annoying.

London · Moderator Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 6474

Er. How is side to side scrolling better than the vertical scrolling we have now?
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Kirbyt · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 6:44 am Post subject:

What I mean is that the screen will be the same. It won't stretch out. It'll make room of its own.

London · Moderator Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 6474

I don't understand what you mean at all.
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Kirbyt · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 3:25 pm Post subject:

*Sigh*

Should I make an animated picture of the feature?

Stratadrake · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 5:00 pm Post subject:

He means that, on your profile page, the little boxes that say "Favorite artists" and "Fans" could have their own inline scrollbars so interested visitors could scroll farther down the list.

This is not a hard idea to actually code, however some users have [i]hundreds[/i] of fans and/or favorite artists, it would not be practical for the server to be displaying them all.
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London · Moderator Joined: 23 Mar 2006 Posts: 6474

Oh. I thought he meant he wanted the page that shows up when you click the little arrows to scroll left and right instead of up and down.

If anyone cares about who's faving that user, why not just click the arrow? >_>
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Kirbyt · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 5:13 pm Post subject:

Well, wouldn't it be annoying when you click the arrow then tried to find the user you're looking for, you can't seem to find him/her.

firehead · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:33 pm Post subject:

Dont add so many people.
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Kirbyt · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:38 pm Post subject:

Alright, this may be a good idea. [b]Some[/b] thinks it's good.

cstdenis · Posted: Sun Aug 31, 2008 9:45 pm Post subject:

[quote="Stratadrake"]This is not a hard idea to actually code, however some users have [i]hundreds[/i] of fans and/or favorite artists, it would not be practical for the server to be displaying them all.[/quote]

Wouldn't be too hard on the server if it's done with ajax based system.
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Sora121 · Posted: Mon Sep 01, 2008 9:20 pm Post subject:

[quote="cstdenis"][quote="Stratadrake"]This is not a hard idea to actually code, however some users have [i]hundreds[/i] of fans and/or favorite artists, it would not be practical for the server to be displaying them all.[/quote]

Wouldn't be too hard on the server if it's done with ajax based system.[/quote]

That would be a triggered function using something like onblur, and onfocus.
An un-loaded artist would be set up like this:
<span id="fav_{$fav_row_id}" onfocus="loadNextUser(this.id)"> </span>

Yeah, I could see it wouldn't be too hard to do.
But the one thing we would need to worry about, is, what if a user decides to scroll back and forth multiple times?
That would cause quite a number of requests to the server. But I guess you could place a 1-2 second delay timer on it, or something.

Stratadrake · Posted: Tue Sep 02, 2008 4:15 am Post subject:

onFocus and onBlur refer to the system focus and not visibility, when scrolling it is the scrollbar that has the focus, not its contents. But if I recall correctly, AJAX request data can be stored as a Javascript variable and thus cached.

Besides, the only thing we really need to monitor is if the user scrolls past the end of the list, and extend the container's .innerHTML accordingly.
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Kirbyt · Posted: Sun Oct 19, 2008 12:32 pm Post subject:

So can there be when you only see 10, 15, or 20 user you could see?