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7:49 PM, Saturday October 28th 2023

Hello Koolestani, thank you for getting back to me.

There's not much to say, I'm happy to see you applied my feedback to your work and that you're demonstrating that you understand the concepts and principles this lesson seeks to teach, as well as how to apply the techniques to your work, as such I'm going to be marking this submission as complete. Good luck in Lesson 4.

Next Steps:

Don't forget to add these exercises to your list of warm ups.

Move on to Lesson 4.

This critique marks this lesson as complete.
8:07 PM, Wednesday November 1st 2023
edited at 8:08 PM, Nov 1st 2023

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.

edited at 8:08 PM, Nov 1st 2023
8:32 PM, Wednesday November 1st 2023

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.

11:56 PM, Wednesday November 1st 2023
edited at 11:59 PM, Nov 1st 2023

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.

edited at 11:59 PM, Nov 1st 2023
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