Board Thread:Support Requests - Getting Technical/@comment-5556688-20130707192550


 * Wasn't sure where to post this, but this seems to be the most active subforum

Why do Lightboxes (the window pop-up when you click on an image) not show a little description of the image or other more relevant information. This has always bothered me.

Would it not be fantastic to see the image thumbnail, click on it, and there's just a little line describing the image and perhaps some sort of tag indicating what episode/series/character it belongs to. This could be taken from either the image comment or the first line from the image page.

For some reason, the current Lightboxes DO show which user added the image and on which pages it can be found. Information that is completely useless for people who just want to take a closer look at the thumbnail (this is even more useless considering the Wikia default already shows who added the image on the thumbnail). This is the kind of information that really belongs on the actual image page where all the other background data is. A description of the image is the most basic information you would want and that SHOULD be on the Lightbox so readers instantly get a description of ANY image they click on anywhere on the site.

Check these mocked up examples to get an idea:

The current Lightbox, showing irrelevant info:

My idea, replacing the irrelevant information with actual info readers care about. You can still see who added it and where it is used when you go to the More Info page. Where that kind of information should be in my opinion.

Another variation, making it look cleaner, but this would be tricky to do because of varying image sizes.

So, anyone concur? :D

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