[Serious] How Can CD Improve User Experience (2025)

CD Forum Support
276

That was done on 7/2/2025. Case closed.

3 Likes
277

Thank you for the tip. I finally got around to muting the channel. Now I can efficiently waste more summer time on on CD!

3 Likes
278

Iā€™d like to see better support and stronger conventions around tags, e.g. # frc2102.

  • Users should by default get notifications for teams they are signed up for. (Yes, I know how to set that up manually.)
  • Tags could have a hover over, e.g. with team details.
  • Tag search should work for posts; currently it only seems to work for topics.
13 Likes
279

I am all for better searchability organization and linking. I agree with you for being a long term goal we should be working towards.

8 Likes
280

A tag or category for weekly wins threads would be cool

11 Likes
281

That only works long term if users actually know how to use them properly. Most posts with tags in them nowadays are spam posts.

If TL3 users are allowed to edit posts again the community might be able to collectively help with organizing.

8 Likes
282

Iā€™m late to this thread but I think it is too hard to easily distinguish bold text from regular text; bold text should have a heavier font weight. Iā€™ve checked a few posts on other discourse forums (e.g. https://ftc-community.firstinspires.org/t/list-of-known-issues-for-ftc-ml/27) and bold text seems much easier to notice there so Iā€™m not sure why ChiefDelphi is different? This issueā€™s severity appears to depend a lot on the platform (macOS tends to render text heavier than Windows) and partially the color scheme.

5 Likes
283

From iOS on the mobile discourse app and I agree, itā€™s very faint on here and hard to notice if you have bad eyesight.

284

I figured it out! Bold text is supposed to be font weight 700 in the Open Sans font CD has configured. The problem is that we only load the weight 400 variant of Open Sans. This means that the browser falls back toā€¦ something(?) that is barely bolder.

Current theme:

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat:600,700|Open+Sans" rel="stylesheet">

image

Working stylesheet

<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Montserrat:600,700|Open+Sans:400,700" rel="stylesheet">

image

cc @Brandon_Martus

8 Likes
285

Bring back the :-1: reaction

30 Likes
286

Building off of this reply;

A button to collapse individual replies in the header-bar of the reply. Long form speculative AI content is ā€¦ :plunger: worthy.

4 Likes
287

To be fair the only thing ChatGPT generated in my reply was the image. I had typed the rest. I do agree with the idea of allowing people to sort of minimize a post, but not based on whether some tool thinks itā€™s AI generated or not. Those type of systems donā€™t work great and not all AI usage is spammy garbage. Some can be and I get the resentment towards it.

There is a time and place to use AI like a tool correctly. This is also a reason I will put details blocks even in Non-AI posts just because I feel bad it takes up so much room on screen. Most people can skip over it if they donā€™t want to see it.

ChatGPT Reply

blah blah

In my mind what becomes difficult is does the system track what you have ā€˜hiddenā€™ all the time or if you refresh the page it goes back to shown againā€¦ How useful would it be to constantly reā€™hideā€™ a post only for a very temporary purpose that only you can see.

Maybe the best way is to automatically hide the bulk of a long post and allow a read-more button when you want to see the full thing.

288

Just so that you know,

So some changes will be made around that time, which means Chief Delphi could be down. You can go to the second post of that thread to find out what is changing. All these changes are none of my business. I will leave that to @Brandon_Martus .

289

Thanks for figuring this out ā€“ Iā€™ve applied the changes!

9 Likes