I clearly recall this being a bug on file. Would you please do it? It's a nice thing to avoid cluttering text with nicknames of other people.
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Gryllida: You'd filed that as bugzilla:59231. You wrote:
"a setting for pings to not be displayed, either
- hidden where the pingee is a parent message author, or
- hidden entirely."
As well as those options, perhaps pings could be:
- A different color (eg. near-black instead of bright-blue) so that they're less eye-catching.
- Shown as a list of "who will be pinged" for the post-author whilst they're typing, but not in the saved-post itself.
- Made smaller, like en:Template:Tiny ping (I would disagree with this one, but listing for completism)
What else could we do, or do other sites do?
"Shown as a list of "who will be pinged" for the post-author whilst they're typing, but not in the saved-post itself." -- yes definitely; cluttered post text is the primary concern here.
" A different color (eg. near-black instead of bright-blue) so that they're less eye-catching." I don't really care.
"Made smaller, like en:Template:Tiny ping (I would disagree with this one, but listing for completism)" -- when you do such list, you can make them smaller if you like; I don't care.
By all means please try to keep it readable. More on this in a next message.
Please keep it readable.
- The "by clicking reply, you agree to..." message is not something my elderly relatives would be able to even notice.
- The 'cancel' and 'preview' are light grey on white background. This is hard to read.
- The 'reply', 'edit', '25 seconds ago' are all light grey on white. They're all hard to read in the small print.