After the last State of Sponge, I became interested in contributing to the Ore project
so after a bit of struggling I managed to install it on my dev machine. And I must say
well done to all the members who worked on Ore its amazing!
But I have some thought on how to improve. I myself have little to no experience in Scala or the Play Framework but I have been reading and studying it so I can contribute in the near future.
I do however have experience in Bootstrap, SCSS, JQuery, JavaScript.
So here we go:
First the nitpicking design details:
I like the design but it feels a bit bodged together
Overal alignement is strange on some places:
The box with the plugin description has rounded corners but nothing else on the page has round corners.
Navbar at the top has a horizontal line from side to side while to footer does not.
Navbar with docs, versions… is bit to much to the left.
On mobile navbar (including search) disappears:
And the navbar is glued to the side
Other idea’s
- When creating a project it also creates a page on the forum for discussions, there should be a link to that discussion maybe after source (see few screenshots ago)?
- Ajax/Infinite scrol: forum already has infinite scroll (and of course we are 2018
and don’t need pagination) - On mobile the filtering is at the bottom of the page which kinda stinks, maybe we could do filtering on mobile at the top like this:
I hope this was helpful!
I’m able to work on the design if that would help 
Feedback always appreciated!