This topic was marked solved by Arantor, on August 23rd, 2013, 09:19 PM
Tooltips for "like" buttons inconsistent

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Tooltips for "like" buttons inconsistent
« on February 23rd, 2013, 01:03 AM »Last edited on February 23rd, 2013, 01:24 AM
My own post shows the tooltip over the number of likes, but other people's posts have it over the actual link. Tested on this website.
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Re: Tooltips forr "like" buttons inconsistent
« Reply #1, on February 23rd, 2013, 01:06 AM »
That's because on your own posts you don't have a link to click on ;)

I've not been satisfied with the whole tooltip thing since we dropped the text from being inline in the first place. See, if you remember, originally it would state the "You, x, y and z others like this" inline. Then we dropped it for just the number.

So before worrying about where the tooltip is, we should be asking whether we even need the tooltip... do we?

(If not, a lot of things suddenly get simpler.)
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Re: Tooltips forr "like" buttons inconsistent
« Reply #2, on February 23rd, 2013, 01:20 AM »
Oh, it seemed to me the tooltip was supposed to be over the number, seemed logical to me.

TBH with you, I don't think anybody uses it, much less notice it's been removed. It's one of those features that nobody knows about unless told.

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Re: Tooltips for "like" buttons inconsistent
« Reply #3, on February 23rd, 2013, 01:27 AM »
Oh, I use it occasionally if I can't be arsed actually loading the popup (e.g. only one like) but yeah, that's what I'm thinking too.

Would be nice to trim all the surrounding language strings that I spent so long figuring out hahahahaha
Re: Tooltips for
« Reply #4, on August 1st, 2013, 05:37 AM »
I don't even use the tooltip any more... before I remove it I'd like some more comments about it.

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Re: Tooltips for
« Reply #5, on August 1st, 2013, 11:23 AM »
I normally just click for popup.
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Re: Tooltips for
« Reply #6, on August 1st, 2013, 05:45 PM »
Why is the " broken in that post above? Oh... I know, it's an old post from before I fixed that crap.

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Re: Tooltips for
« Reply #7, on August 1st, 2013, 07:22 PM »
Quote from Arantor on August 1st, 2013, 05:37 AM
I don't even use the tooltip any more... before I remove it I'd like some more comments about it.
Tooltip in likes? Considering there's a color clue indicating whether you've 'voted' or not, I don't think it's that useful these days, indeed.
However, you may want to keep it for newbies... But really, it doesn't matter that much.

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Re: Tooltips for
« Reply #8, on August 1st, 2013, 07:27 PM »
The only benefit to the tooltip is that you can see the first couple of likes without actually selecting it. But if we drop the tooltip we can save some effort both in terms of language strings and not having to fetch the names from the DB... and if we're not fetching the names we simplify a ton of code and make the query faster to boot.

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Re: Tooltips for
« Reply #9, on August 1st, 2013, 07:53 PM »
Then we could replace with a name-free equivalent... "2 people liked this." that way, everybody's happy I guess!
We can even do it in js, eheh....

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Re: Tooltips for
« Reply #10, on August 1st, 2013, 07:58 PM »
That works for me. Though we would still need to replace it with the following:

1 person liked this.
2 people liked this.
You liked this.
You and 1 other person liked this.
You and 2 other people liked this.

But that's still simpler than what we currently have. I'll tackle this shortly if you like?

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Re: Tooltips for
« Reply #11, on August 2nd, 2013, 01:44 AM »
Is it just me, or do all those statements sound better with the "have" helper in them?
Quote from Arantor on August 1st, 2013, 07:58 PM
1 person has liked this.
2 people have liked this.
You have liked this.
You and 1 other person have liked this.
You and 2 other people have liked this.

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Re: Tooltips for
« Reply #12, on August 2nd, 2013, 01:53 AM »
Works for me. I was just slinging it out quickly to confirm exactly what would be needed.
Re: Tooltips for
« Reply #13, on August 23rd, 2013, 09:19 PM »
Implemented though I didn't use quite the same wording.