Improving the look/usability of the SWYMP Without Dassault Lifting a Finger

[JSculley]

A little something I've been working on.

My current view on CADForum.net:

Default view of the SWYMp (with 'compact' view enabled):

My current view of the SWYMp:

Nearly twice as many posts on screen.

A lot of clutter removed:

• Useless compass

• Facebook-style 'likes'

• Dassault/3DExperience branding

• user profile icons in the post title

• dropdown menu on each post in the list

Question icon color reflects post status (yellow=no answers/comments, blue=answers/comments, green=validated answer/comment).

Still more cleanup and formatting to do, but it's close enough that I've confused myself a couple of times. Only about 250 lines of sloppy client side Javascript/CSS and the Tampermonkey extension for Chrome.

[josh]

Did you forget to attach the script? :-D

[Frederick_Law]

A little something I've been working on.

That's disruptive!

[JSculley]

Did you forget to attach the script? :-D

It's not quite ready.

[mattpeneguy]

It's not quite ready.

Neither is the swamp... didn't stop them from releasing it...

[jcapriotti]

Nice, @JSculley, you have already shown more competence then the Dassault team. It's like they are the Bad New Bears of UI design.

[dave.laban]

Very nice!

Do you think it would be possible to extract the actual date/time for the post and display that rather than the "1 hour ago" nonsense they persist with? The data seems to be available when you hover over their vaguestamp.

[AlexB]

I hadn't realized how much of a difference small changes like this would make. Good work!

[AlexLachance]

I hope you receive retribution for all you've done towards this to show their lack of commitment

[bnemec]

Nice work. The appearance is surprisingly less painful.

I second the post timestamp instead of how long ago request.

Also, can you just get rid of the "Answered" label? The number of replies is shown and most humans can do the if(numReplies > 0) logic pretty quickly.

[JSculley]

Very nice!

Do you think it would be possible to extract the actual date/time for the post and display that rather than the "1 hour ago" nonsense they persist with? The data seems to be available when you hover over their vaguestamp.

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At first glance, it's not straightforward. The text is in a popup which gets added to the document on the fly, so the information isn't available when I do the work to rearrange all the stuff in the posts. It doesn't mean it can't be done, but how to do so isn't obvious.

[JSculley]

Nice work. The appearance is surprisingly less painful.

I second the post timestamp instead of how long ago request.

Also, can you just get rid of the "Answered" label? The number of replies is shown and most humans can do the if(numReplies > 0) logic pretty quickly.

It doesn't always say 'Answered'. It may say 'Updated' if an author or commenter edited the post or a reply/comment. It will also say 'Validated' if the post has been marked that way. That whole area is still a bit work in progress as far as the best way to arrange things.

[mattpeneguy]

It doesn't always say 'Answered'. It may say 'Updated' if an author or commenter edited the post or a reply/comment. It will also say 'Validated' if the post has been marked that way. That whole area is still a bit work in progress as far as the best way to arrange things.

Can you get it to be a little more accurate by making it say "Convoluted" or "Obfuscated"?...Seems a little more appropriate over there...

Kidding aside, good work!