Downloads homepage has too little info and too much wasted space

[teraßyte]

I find the downloads homepage has too little info on it compared to its v4 version:

1. Featured box:
   • The button to directly download the file without opening its page is no longer included. I can see why it was removed, though.
   • However, only the number of downloads is shown. Nothing for comments, reviews, purchases, or rating (well, I don't really care about this one 😹).
2. What's New box:
   • Lots of empty white space below the image/title since only the uploader name and date are shown. The image being much bigger than before only further increases the wasted space.
   • I can only see "3 and a half" files compared to "5 and a half"
   • v4 provided a lot more info that's missing:
     • downloads
     • purchases
     • comments (it seems the template includes code for this, but the count is hidden and there's a broken pluralization string)
     • rating (it seems the template includes code for this, but the element is hidden with CSS)
3. Highest Rated & Most Downloaded boxes :
   • Maybe you could also include the number of comments/reviews when there are some?

 

While I can change some things through CSS (image size and rating?) I can't add what's not there since we can't edit templates directly anymore and there are no hook points. 😕

 

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P.S.: I tested the page on both 1920x1080 and 2560x1440 resolutions. So it's not like the data is hidden because there is no space (for example: phone).

Edited December 27, 2024 by teraßyte

[Adriano Faria]

Still in the What's New block.

It shows the date updated instead of the submission date, which is weird for a WHAT'S NEW block, like above, it shows files from a few hours earlier mixed with files submitted a couple of weeks ago.

Edited December 30, 2024 by Adriano Faria