Completely collapse country list when a release is [worldwide]

[Aerozol]

If a release is worldwide, it would be nice to collapse all the countries by default. Still with a expand button. In that situation the detailed information is redundant, and the page can be simplified.

Currently:

Proposed:

P.S. I would go as far as to completely collapse this completely even when it's not worldwide/when Harmony sets the release country is set to be blank. These are situations where only advanced users should muck with release countries. But that is debatable, whereas collapsing when [worldwide] seems like a straightforward change. So let's stick with this for now.

[Aerozol]

Kellnerd mentioned in the forums that this would double up on "expand" buttons, which is true (e.g. if we want to allow people to uncollapse the short codes).

I am a bit unclear on the usefulness of the country short codes (I understand they provide a nice compact overview, but do they offer more value, e.g. do people cut and paste them for some purposes?)

For my personal situation I would be happy to just hide the shortcuts for [worldwide] and expand to the full country list, as now. Again, I can't see why anyone needs to see the full list of countries, but if they do it may as well be comprehensive.

tl;dr - I would be happy for this ticket to be: "hide short codes when [worldwide]"

[kellnerd]

Ah, now I understand better why the availability list doesn't look too useful to you.
It's been a while since I've last seen a font which doesn't support these Unicode flags.

For reference, this is how it is supposed to look:

But you are also right that the whole availability stuff shouldn't be of too much interest to the average user. (The origins of Harmony are still shining through here, a-tisket displays these country lists even more prominent.)
That's why I thought about combining all three info rows and make the availability lists a collapsible detail for the "advanced users" which is shown underneath the derived release events.

P.S. We could also take the chance and explain why something is "worldwide" or an empty release country in the new collapsible section.

[Aerozol]

Huh! I think I'm just using the standard Chrome install/font, but who knows, after a few years of adding plugins/userscripts! But yeah, for [worldwide] in particular I still think it should collapse whether it displays the flag or the shortcode.

Combining everything into one row sounds excellent as well, I might have been too focussed on a fast/easy improvement, someone can probably do better. Having more detail/explanation in the expanded version sounds good too.

P.S. I actually don't mind the shortcodes, possibly even prefer them. It's still easy to pick out what I'm after, e.g. if US, JP or NZ are in the unavailability list. And Australia and NZ flags are always annoying to differentiate when they are small. Flags looks nice though :D