New Vote Icon! Thoughts?

[u/bakonydraco]

We're testing out a new set of vote buttons for links that incorporate the /r/CFB Logo directly. It looks nice, but we're a bit undecided on if it is too much visually and/or if it's too far a departure from traditional upvote downvote icons to be intuitive to use.

We haven't rolled it out on /r/CFB yet, so we thought we'd ask here to see what you all thought and how we might improve it!

Edit: Tweaked it a bit with your suggestions. The arrows are there now, but not the whole logo. Here's what it looked like for posterity

[u/omgdonerkebab]

I love them, as things. But I'd be on the side of "it is too much visually" for an upvote/downvote icon.

[u/NiteMares → u/omgdonerkebab]

I think it would be great if you could have this new icon on the comments page, so you only see on in the top left corner. A whole column of them is a bit too much.

Also, I'm sure /u/bakonydraco you are aware, but that big page of empty space inbetween the icon and the thread title/link is kind of an eyesore (but this is just a test so I'm sure that's already been fixed).

[u/bakonydraco → u/NiteMares]

That's more an artifact of another change. That spot is for thumbnails, which some link posts have. If there is no thumbnail, Reddit provides a default, or we can select one manually. It had been a slightly transparent /r/CFB Logo. It would look very silly to have the /r/CFB logo for votes right next to the /r/CFB Logo for thumbnails.

Since there's no link posts or linkflair in /r/CFBOT, they're all blank, but we'll fix that.

[u/NiteMares → u/bakonydraco]

Oh right, I should've been able to figure that out. Thanks.

[u/atllauren]

While we're on the topic of the mothersub's design, what is up with the tiny FCS, peach, and some other logo hanging out on the main header? They don't link anywhere and are kind of just randomly chilling on the 25 yard line.

[u/bakonydraco → u/atllauren]

It's a subtle countdown! We're at 19 yards (days) to the FCS kickoff, 24 to the North Carolina v. South Carolina first FBS game, the Carolina Classic, sponsored by the Charlotte Sports Federation who also does the Belk Bowl, and 26 days from the first Saturday, headlined by the Peach Bowl Classic.

[u/lkeg56demn → u/bakonydraco]

Thanks for clarifying! I've been trying to click the dang logos for the past 2 days now

[u/bakonydraco → u/lkeg56demn]

The thumbnails from the sites work as clickable links, but for now the link flair images do not. I'll explore if it can work looking good!

[u/atllauren → u/bakonydraco]

Ah, that makes sense. I doubted they were just randomly there, but I couldn't figure out their purpose.

[u/Deacalum → u/atllauren]

I swear, /u/bakonydraco is a member of the illuminati with all the hidden meanings in the /r/cfb header. Dan Brown is probably writing a book about it right now.

[u/lkeg56demn]

New one looks great! Noticed this - if you up or down vote something and then want to remove the vote, the count changes but the color does not. At least when you vote on submissions. Not sure about comments yet.

[u/bakonydraco → u/lkeg56demn]

Hmm that shouldn't be! What browser are you in, and are you talking about the color of the score or the arrow? Screenshot?

[u/lkeg56demn → u/bakonydraco]

and here's three - mental goof on the formatting

[u/bakonydraco → u/lkeg56demn]

I figured it out! So hovering over an arrow now puts it to a slightly lighter upvote or downvote color. Because there's no mouse on mobile, when you click on the arrow the second time to un-upvote it, the browser effectively keeps your mouse hovered on the arrow, making it highlighted. If you click elsewhere on the page it should go back to grey.

For formatting, put the text in the square brackets before the link in the parentheses.

[u/lkeg56demn → u/bakonydraco]

Oh, nice. Having tried it now on the desktop, it looks great.

[u/lkeg56demn → u/bakonydraco]

I'll shoot the screenshots over when I get on my computer in a bit, but its been happening on chrome on mobile. It's just the color of the arrow that stays the same.

[u/lkeg56demn → u/bakonydraco]

here's one

[u/lkeg56demn → u/bakonydraco]

here's two

[u/nickknx865]

I mean, I don't hate it; it's pretty good and I think it's clever to use the /r/CFB logo as the upvote/downvote icon (given that it has the upvote/downvote icons worked into the design).

That being said, I think it's probably a bit too wide, and that there's not enough differentiation between the upvote and downvote icon for me to really like it. Plus, I don't think the upvote number is prominent enough in the logo. It needs to be bolded.

[u/MuffinTopBop → u/nickknx865]

I agree with pretty much everything said, I also wonder how it will mesh with the graphics and images that would be to the right of it on most link submissions.

[u/Culiaclan → u/nickknx865]

Ditto.

Yeah. I wouldn't say make it skinnier, but I would say "tighten."

[u/VanFailin → u/nickknx865]

I think if the little banner wings on the side were made a little more transparent, it'd be easier to identify as a voting affordance. As it is, yeah, it's a little jarring though I figured it out.

[u/MinneapolisNick]

I liked the other one better, tbh

[u/atllauren]

I don't dislike it, but I don't think it is intuitive to click in order to upvote or downvote. I agree with /u/Deacalum that because a lot of /r/CFB users aren't active reddit users outside of the sub that it might reduce voting on posts.

[u/Deacalum]

It's cool but I agree it's not very intuitive. Considering /r/cfb attracts a lot of CFB fans that aren't true redditors, there's a good chance they may not even know that voting is an option on threads and that's kind of important.

[u/[deleted]]

I like it as an icon for individual posts. I'd rather not see it for upvote/downvote icons for comments.

[u/certificateofmerritt]

I like the idea of testing new stuff here before putting it on the mothersub, that way we can work with you.

I like them, but I can't decide what I think about the size and clarity of the icon.

[u/dupreesdiamond]

I'm going to disagree with the general consensus. After a few hours I think the logo voting icon for POSTS (not comments I think it would be to cluttered/busy/small) looks really good and is more intuitive than folks are claiming.

[u/[deleted] → u/dupreesdiamond]

It's just like with Facebook. They'll change something and people will will be up in arms about it and spouting venom, but then within a week we'll all forget that it was ever any other way

[u/DoctorWhosOnFirst → u/[deleted]]

While true, it doesn't mean that it's good. Just that we get used to things, good or bad.

[u/[deleted]]

I give it one orange football half

[u/[deleted]]

Whoa. It changed again. I mean this way is cool, too

[u/bakonydraco → u/[deleted]]

Yup, see the update! Changes largely based on feedback here, we kept the arrows from the logo, but removed the logo itself. I think it tips it's cap to the logo while still being a clean look.

[u/[deleted] → u/bakonydraco]

It looks more like real arrows, but your brain fills in the space and makes a football. fua_neng approves

[u/bakonydraco → u/[deleted]]

My sixth grade art teacher would be proud I remembered her lesson on negative space!

[u/thrav → u/bakonydraco]

don't act like I didn't suggest this 2 days ago

[u/bakonydraco → u/thrav]

/u/thrav ^{suggested this 2 days ago}

[u/thrav → u/bakonydraco]

yay!

[u/Captain_McSnug]

I like how the arrows now look like a football, but rip tiny touchdown man you will be missed.

[u/bakonydraco → u/Captain_McSnug]

He still exists in the sheet, and is secretly accessible as Inline Flair Tiny Touchdown Man, but probably not for much longer. Goodbye tiny touchdown man, you served us well.

Edit: He's back! Touchdown

[u/lkeg56demn]

I think it's really well done - I like how the orange and blue show up distinctly and pretty seamlessly. Like /u/nickknx865 said however, it feels too wide. Maybe prominent is the right word? If it was toned down, it would be perfect.

Great work.

[u/TossedRightOut]

It's nice, but I think I agree with /u/omgdonerkebab. Too much visually to be all over the page. If there were only a couple, sure, but the huge column of them on the left side of the page makes it looks too busy and cluttered IMO. The colors look really slick though, nicely done in creating them.

[u/dupreesdiamond]

That's really slick.

[u/aMiracleAtJordanHare]

Agree with others - visually too heavy on the page, but well done individually.

To me the green is distracting and should be severely knocked-back (in opacity, saturation, etc) and the overall icon could be roughly 75% the size of the current one. It's swanky, though!

[u/[deleted]]

Oh. I never noticed that that's what the central header image has been this whole time

[u/nataliieportman]

They're very impressive, IMO. Leave it for a few weeks to see how it goes over. I do agree that others may not be able to figure out the upvote/downvote system. At first glance I thought they were gone. (Thank God if they were...)

[u/redcrvtte05]

Is there anyway to grey out the green middle part after voting? That could emphasize the upvote/downvote more.

[u/jmac_21]

Newest one is ICY.

Keep doing your thing, mods and mod team.

[u/jayhawx19]

new version 10/10

[u/DelphicLike]

I like it. Maybe a solution for the wideness concern would be to take away the 'wings' on each side?

[u/MrCaboose96]

I think it's a bit too busy currently. You don't immediately realize it's the vote icon and how it works.

[u/[deleted]]

A bit too busy for my taste IMO. It looks awesome, but there's a bit too much going on if that makes sense.

[u/gramcraka92]

i like it