I believe you should have received a notification of Mushroom's reply as well - can you let me know if it came through? If not, I might need to look into that.
I did, actually I'd like to give some unsolicited advise/feedback that I believe would improve the site design.
If this isn't the right place to share it, please let me know.
The indentation for replies takes up a lot of space. I think it's not required since every reply nests in further no matter the nesting level of the comment to which the reply was made. Eventually you are bound to run out of the horizontal space. Right now it cannot display your full username on the screen, it's just UNCOMFRTA (see what I did here XD)
Hiding everything beyond the third reply behind a VIEW MORE COMMENTS IN THIS THREAD button is something that should be reviewed.
If a sizeable "You have X unread notifcations" banner could appear somewhere, maybe the center or the bottom of the screen, that could be a welcome addition as well. The current system of having a dot display over the human symbol is very subtle, and doesn't grab attention unless you deliberately look at it. No color contrast between the two makes it even more invisible.
I like the rounded rectangles and the bounding box around each reply. It's very easy to follow visually and pleasing to look at.
There are definitely a ton of usability things we eventually intend to work on across the website, but for now we're focusing our limited resources on the demo content overhaul.
Once that's out of the way, we'll be tackling things like what you've suggested here, along with a long list of other small things. If it were just one or two things here and there, it'd be done pretty quickly, but ultimately setting those things aside allows us to maximize the impact of the time we have outside of our usual feedback responsibilities.
This is another one of those things that aren't sold through Amazon, so I don't get a commission on it - but it's just too good to leave out. PureRef is a fantastic piece of software that is both Windows and Mac compatible. It's used for collecting reference and compiling them into a moodboard. You can move them around freely, have them automatically arranged, zoom in/out and even scale/flip/rotate images as you please. If needed, you can also add little text notes.
When starting on a project, I'll often open it up and start dragging reference images off the internet onto the board. When I'm done, I'll save out a '.pur' file, which embeds all the images. They can get pretty big, but are way more convenient than hauling around folders full of separate images.
Did I mention you can get it for free? The developer allows you to pay whatever amount you want for it. They recommend $5, but they'll allow you to take it for nothing. Really though, with software this versatile and polished, you really should throw them a few bucks if you pick it up. It's more than worth it.
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