Here is how the chat sidebar looks, annotated with how interesting/useful stuff is:
On my monitor, I can usually only see the top two or three starred items, but I want to see more. Could something be added so that I could:
I vote for collapsing items. All of them.
I think that having scrollable things will just make it feel more messy. Just a User Experience thing. Collapsing feels more "organized" and you can choose what you want to see without having to scroll; just click et voilà.
On a lower priority, the "other rooms you're in" list could use some improvement; for example, removing the "last message" preview. If there's a new message, we could have a +1, +2, etc., somewhere on the side, so the list gets shorter.
By the way, that's the longest room description I've seen until now.
<cutoff>. Basically it would require 2 clicks for each of those items to deal with. Personally that seems tedious. And if you expanded the 7th item, the rest would still be hidden. The 6th would only show 2 lines and hide the rest. The 5th would.. well you get the point :).
Please oh please make the user list collapsible to one line. It takes up far too much real estate on popular rooms.
I got you guys covered :) This bothered me for a really, really, long time. So, I recently decided to write a surprisingly simple script for it that I use as a bookmarklet. Bookmarklets code can be saved as a bookmark and ran while at the current page, or it can be ran by entering it in the url as
url input field [javascript:pastecodehere(); ]
Here is the script:
javascript:(function(){var $s = $("#starred-posts");var h =$s.height(); $s.css({height:h+"px",overflow:"auto"});})()
Pretty simple right? It creates a scroll bar for the starred area as seen below (Note that this even works if you expand the "Show More Stars" link without rerunning the script).
HodofHod wrote a userscript, linked from here, to add scrolling to the right panel to be able to see more stars. I've been using it for months and would never go back to the old, limited way.
While this would be a nice inherent feature, in the mean time you can use the More Stars script by Sterno.
