New notifications system blocks nav bar and takes a long time to go away

[seanlinsley]

[seanlinsley]

15 seconds, specifically

[rummik]

Suggestions? :D My thoughts are we could add a close button (still blocks nav...) or have them at the bottom of the page. Dunno if either of them are necessarily ideal though

[ESWAT]

Given the fixed-width layout and the amount of space we have around it, maybe we can put it at one of the bottom corners.

[clone1018]

We need something soon :( Can we act fast on this one?

[juliepagano]

Just popped over to complain about this and am glad to see other folks are already on it. ;)

Seems like a quick fix would be to adjust the timeout to something more reasonable. Maybe around 5 seconds or a little less? I don't have time to test it at the moment, but it looks like you might just need to adjust it in the line linked below.

https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/blob/c61245a91560173163c32aaa7b07afa29f69f4c1/js/gittip/notification.js#L16

[duckinator]

Personally, the nicest approach I've seen has been shifting the entire page down the height of a notification, and adding the notifications above it.

If we go with that approach, however, I'd suggest pushing a temporary fix that drops the timeout (as @juliepagano suggested) until it is ready: that approach will take a while to implement well.

What are your thoughts, @rummik?

[seanlinsley]

#2279 is now on production, which makes a few small changes that greatly improve usability.

[rummik]

@juliepagano It's not merged yet, but #2308 should fix the issue you've pointed out.