Thank you for the critique and bearing with me!
PS
I thought I didn't receive any reply to that last message till now, then I saw the "Giver of Life" text under my avatar, which made me look around to find out what happened, turns out the reply was hidden behind a "VIEW MORE COMMENTS IN THIS THREAD" button.
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.
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While I have a massive library of non-instructional art books I've collected over the years, there's only a handful that are actually important to me. This is one of them - so much so that I jammed my copy into my overstuffed backpack when flying back from my parents' house just so I could have it at my apartment. My back's been sore for a week.
The reason I hold this book in such high esteem is because of how it puts the relatively new field of game art into perspective, showing how concept art really just started off as crude sketches intended to communicate ideas to storytellers, designers and 3D modelers. How all of this focus on beautiful illustrations is really secondary to the core of a concept artist's job. A real eye-opener.
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