DNF color in overview screen

[Hko 6]

Just wondering here... but a DNF gives a sad smiley in color blue as a standard indicator on the map... wouldn't it be better/more consistent to also have a blue dot in the cache overview page then? Now the DNF is a dark red color... pretty close to the orange and red colors for disabled and needs maintenance. 

just my 2cents...

[Nic Hubbard 637]

Posting this for more discussion. Thoughts?

P.S., this is starting to grow on me...

 

[thebruce0 8]

Or provide selectable or customizable icon sets ;P

[rragan 200]

Having to guess/remember the meaning of dot color is not great to my mind. I screen captured Looking4Cache app and blended their use of icons with a Cachly screen cap. The result shows that the more mnemonic icon circles they use ought to take no more real estate than is currently used. A blue frownie, yellow smiley, etc then are like the map view. 

[Team DEMP 120]

The traditional icons/color are a bit more obvious/natural then the pure color ones but I use it as a glancing reference. I'm ok with either but if I needed to vote, I'd select the traditional site ones - yellow smile, blue frown, etc.

[Bolling 99]

I'm not agreeing or disagreeing with your comment. Just extending your logic. If Blue represents a DNF log then Yellow should represent a Found log. 

[Nic Hubbard 637]

I do have this on the bug list but haven't decided what to do about it. Since users are used to how it currently is, changing this might cause confusion.

[barefootguru 65]

I like the idea of changing the DNF to a blue dot… I realise Cachly is using traffic-light colours, but I can never remember what shade of red represents what log.

[AnyMules 39]

Given that a lot of users also use GSAK, it should be noted that GSAK also shows DNFs as a red dot in the "last 4 logs" view, so the consistency there could be appreciated by many.

But I do agree that the two "red" shades is hard to distinguish between at a quick glance (and for those of us with bad eyesight).

[Bolling 99]

Personally I like red and green dots better than yellow and blue dots. The non DNF red should perhaps be a different color. 

[rragan 200]

Not sure if the resolution would permit but a small blue dot with a frown and yellow with a smile would remove the ambiguity. 

[Nic Hubbard 637]

Maybe all users should vote?

[hidegoseek 8]

18 hours ago, Bolling said:

Personally I like red and green dots better than yellow and blue dots. 

I also like the red and green dots.  It's intuitive.  

[hidegoseek 8]

3 minutes ago, Team DEMP said:

 I'm ok with either but if I needed to vote, I'd select the traditional site ones - yellow smile, blue frown, etc.

I'm also okay with either, but if the little frowny and smiley faces are possible (rather than just colors) I could vote for those.

[Bolling 99]

12 hours ago, hidegoseek said:

I'm also okay with either, but if the little frowny and smiley faces are possible (rather than just colors) I could vote for those.

Ditto.  

[ACME WildCachers 15]

I like the stoplight colors. I can't say that I've never looked at two shades of red next to each other and wondered about the difference, but I'm not sure knowing the difference at a glance is really that important. To me, the five dots are mostly a representation of the recent health of a cache. Any shade of red indicates something negative (DNF, disable, archive), while any shade of green indicates something positive (smiley, enable). If I really care to know which is which if there are multiple reds, I'm always going to tap through and read the logs for that, anyway.

[thebruce0 8]

The way I see it, GSAK's presentation of the logs has a different context. As said, it's more a recent generalization of the cach "health". As opposed to a list of recent logs in the context of "these are logs that have been posted most recently". In the latter case, consistency in icons is more important, because that's the context - specific log types. In the GSAK health context, red/green when grouped closer together imply something different, something collective, and so I'd say it's ok there to not use say yellow/blue smileys and frowneys.

In the cache detail card lists, eg, on one line the most recent logs, I'd say remain consistent with official icons. If it were presenting them in a different context, a different method (which btw can also ignore notes which I believe GSAK does) then red/green makes more sense. IMO.

[MrGigabyte 20]

Assuming the Russians do not influence this vote, I cast mine as follows:

I vote for the traditional/original colour scheme -  Yellow smile, Blue frown, etc.

[Hko 6]

That would make it far better indeed! I like it!

[barefootguru 65]

I like it   Clear what each entry is, and consistent with icons on map.

[Bolling 99]

On 2/24/2017 at 11:31 PM, Bolling said:

Ditto.  

After seeing the concept, I stick with my vote. It looks good. 

[rragan 200]

I like it. What would archived be? Black?

[Nic Hubbard 637]

3 minutes ago, rragan said:

I like it. What would archived be? Black?

I have not changed it from red yet. Did you think it deserved a different color?

[thebruce0 8]

Yeah red seems 'bad'. Archived is more neutral. I'd Archived should be black, and notes grey. Consistency would imply NM would be red or orange for potential problem, and Owner Maintenance perhaps green, good-to-go.

[Nic Hubbard 637]

5 minutes ago, thebruce0 said:

Yeah red seems 'bad'. Archived is more neutral. I'd Archived should be black, and notes grey. Consistency would imply NM would be red or orange for potential problem, and Owner Maintenance perhaps green, good-to-go.

The original colors in Cachly (besides found and DNF) were based off of the geocaching.com icons. The archive icon is red, so that is where the color was sampled from.

[thebruce0 8]

Oh right, the red filing cabinet. When they were choosing the new icons I wasn't a fan of that one   However, disable is also red, so by colour alone it would be confusing.

Well the asy solution is just to use the same icons as the website

[rragan 200]

Red seems like don't go and black is dead (eg archived). Maybe draw from Road signage -  No Entry of Red Circle with red slash, See Unicode icon. Then same icon but with black colors for archived. 

[ShoesBologna 7]

On ‎2‎/‎25‎/‎2017 at 0:44 AM, hidegoseek said:

I'm also okay with either, but if the little frowny and smiley faces are possible (rather than just colors) I could vote for those.

Ditto

[Nic Hubbard 637]

2 minutes ago, ShoesBologna said:

Ditto

Did you see the updated screenshot I posted?

[ShoesBologna 7]

On ‎3‎/‎3‎/‎2017 at 9:00 AM, Nic Hubbard said:

Did you see the updated screenshot I posted?

No I haven't.  Where is it? 

[Nic Hubbard 637]

6 hours ago, ShoesBologna said:

No I haven't.  Where is it? 

In the beginning of this thread. Look back on page 1.

[ShoesBologna 7]

On 2/28/2017 at 0:57 PM, Nic Hubbard said:

Posting this for more discussion. Thoughts?

P.S., this is starting to grow on me...

 

Love it!