Yesterday I tested Side Quests and confirmed it worked as envisioned. Today I wanted to take care of papercuts.
So today I focused on letting users watch trailers, and then on a pile of small annoyances.
Trailers
A chip in the genre row opens a player over the page. The page builds the iframe on click, so YouTube loads nothing for readers who never press play. It rides on an API call the site already makes, so it costs no extra requests.
Papercuts
- I cut text from the TV show page that nobody needed.
- Expanding the recommendations no longer reloads the page, the same way rating a show stopped reloading it.
- Genre pills stopped looking like a filter I had left switched on.
- CSS styles now carry across the entire website, which ADR-11 set out to do.
- You can take back a rating, not only change it.
- My Ratings became a catalog grid.
From now on I am going to spend Sundays clearing papercuts. I already do a deep weekly review, and I would rather give Sunday to that. This week I am building Search for TVLens. I am excited! 😊