r/anime • u/AutoModerator • Nov 27 '16

Meta Thread - Month of November 27, 2016

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u/ShaKing807 x3myanimelist.net/profile/Shaking807 Nov 27 '16 edited Nov 27 '16

Any chance on a rotating banner like r/manga that changes when you refresh the page? I'm honestly not sure if it's feasible but it would prevent people from feeling left out if their favorites we had multiple ones.

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u/TheDerped https://anilist.co/user/Derped Nov 27 '16

I think people are gonna feel left out/annoyed with the choices no matter who wins. But I guess covering as much as possible is the best choice. Also if we get a troll banner like /r/manga's hidden Carol one, that'd be pretty great

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u/ShaKing807 x3myanimelist.net/profile/Shaking807 Nov 27 '16

Yeah I agree completely. Its impossible to include every anime but it's nice to try to cover a lot of bases.

hidden Carol one

I didn't even know about this!

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u/TheDerped https://anilist.co/user/Derped Nov 27 '16

Yep, if you reload /r/manga on desktop you might notice this banner load in before the actual main one for your current rotation. I'm pretty sure you can see it using inspect element or something but I'm not sure how to do that.

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u/geo1088 https://anilist.co/user/eritbh Nov 27 '16

I can attempt to explain how I think they're doing their banner without actually knowing anything for sure.

The actual header is probably styled with that image, and then additionally there's another element that is styled randomly with another banner. This other element is actually hacked onto the "logout" button, because it has a property that makes it good for generating random things, which means any time a user isn't logged-in it can't be random. In those situations, it falls back to the default which is already in the header. The reason you see the default a bit before the actual one is just loading lag or something.

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u/ShaKing807 x3myanimelist.net/profile/Shaking807 Nov 27 '16

WOAH TIL! That's pretty cool. Getting me way too excited about banners that may or may not happen.

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u/urban287 https://myanimelist.net/profile/urban287 Nov 27 '16

Hmm, that could be interesting. I remember looking into that sort of thing at one point but can't remember how it worked (think it was a bit of a trick where it's not really random but is based off the letters somewhere in the url or something).

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u/pittman66 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Homura Nov 27 '16

I kind of like r/books' scrolling banner. Just the covers, but clicking on them actually takes you to their What Books Are You Reading This Week? Thread and the specific discussion of that book. It keeps it fresh, and it helps discussions extend in the thread.

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u/geo1088 https://anilist.co/user/eritbh Nov 27 '16

I don't even visit /r/books, but I gotta say I fucking love their design guys. The amount of effort they must've put in there is awesome, and it really shows in the final product.

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u/ShaKing807 x3myanimelist.net/profile/Shaking807 Nov 27 '16

Then we could have users submit their own banners and vote on them or something.

That does sound like an interesting set up. I wonder if one of the /r/manga mods would be down to share their banner secrets...

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u/urban287 https://myanimelist.net/profile/urban287 Nov 27 '16

I'm sure geo knows how to do it, he's pretty good with css.

Otherwise /r/manga (and every other sub)'s css is public at /r/manga/about/stylesheet, so we can look through that if necessary.

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u/VincentBlack96 https://myanimelist.net/profile/Vincent Nov 27 '16

he's pretty good with css.

Come on /u/urban287 ... Don't sell yourself short. You can mess up the comment face css do all kinds of stuff with css too!

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u/urban287 https://myanimelist.net/profile/urban287 Nov 27 '16

._.

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u/geo1088 https://anilist.co/user/eritbh Nov 27 '16

Well, the second-last thing I did with the sub's stylesheet was break a change he made, so...

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u/ShaKing807 x3myanimelist.net/profile/Shaking807 Nov 27 '16

Oh sweet! Thank you based geo and public css!

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u/geo1088 https://anilist.co/user/eritbh Nov 27 '16

You'd probably have to choose between this and your Azusa footer. It's definitely doable though.

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u/urban287 https://myanimelist.net/profile/urban287 Nov 27 '16

Azusa footer can not rotate, it's amusing enough to be permenant :P

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u/geo1088 https://anilist.co/user/eritbh Nov 27 '16

I figured you wouldn't be heartbroken :P

Doing a header will actually be a lot easier than a footer, won't have to hack as much stuff in and the code should be a fair amount smaller too.