It should be pointed out that the "See Open Challenges" button is only visible to logged in users. And to me having the share code box taking up that much space on every frigging story and bookmark is rather aggravating. The box is larger than the average bookmark. A common problem with many other parts of the archive, too, where the surrounding stuff takes up much more space than the important parts of a fic - title and summary. On ffn an average fandom page fits nine stories, on AO3 it's only three, leading to lots and lots of useless scrolling.
Hmm, are we talking about the same thing? I just see an extra button next to buttons that were already there anyway, and when I click on it a little overlay box pops ups that can be easily closed after copying the text? There shouldn't be anything more visible, I think. What does the share code box look like to you? Maybe this is a Javascript problem and can be fixed.
It shows "Copy and paste to link back to this work: (CTRL/CMD-A will select all)" and the box with links between the "Comments # Light Style # Share" bar and the download bar.
Like this: Comments | Light Style | Share Copy and paste to link back to this work: (CTRL/CMD-A will select all) ____________________________________________ |Large Code Box | |More Large Box | |You guessed, Large Box | |And last but not least, Large Box | |__Large Boxie's scroll bar________________| Download | MOBI | EPUB | PDF | HTML | Close
And, yes, it is a Javascript problem, because it uses Javascript to hide the thing.
Do you mean you have Javascript turned off? If you can't turn it on selectively for the AO3 domain, maybe something can be worked out to make the box degrade more gracefully. I'm not a coder though, just spitballing here. :-)
ETA: Okay, I just disabled Javascript to try this out, maybe it might be of use to you. On your Dashboard, go to My Skins > Create New Skin, and paste this in:
div#share { display: none; }
You might have to enable the skin afterwards. This will effectively turn off the sharing feature for you, since the box won't even pop up when you click the button, whups. Just thought I'd suggest it anyway, in case you weren't planning on using it. :-)
Unfortunately I can't turn on Javascript selectively. My favorite for this and a bunch of other menus - the fanfic filters get incredibly long - would be using the css hover abilities - but those are troublesome in IE browsers, yet totally sweet in Firefox and family and Opera.
[div class="dm"] [span class="dmt"] [a href="" title="Menu Title" charset="utf-8" hreflang="en" tabindex="1" type="text/html" lang="en"] I'm the menu title [/a] [/span]
[ul class="dm"] [li][a href="item 1" charset="utf-8"]I'm the first menu item[/a][/li] [li][a href="item 2" charset="utf-8"]I'm the second menu item[/a][/li] [li][a href="item 3" charset="utf-8"]I'm the third menu item[/a][/li] [li][a href="item 4" charset="utf-8"]I'm the fourth menu item[/a][/li] [/ul]
Thanks for the catch on the 'See Open Challenges' button!
Apologies also for the obtrusiveness of the 'Share' option when javascript is disabled. You're right that this does not degrade gracefully - this was a design oversight, and we're sorry for the inconvenience caused. We'll work on some better behaviour for that feature.
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