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@evan555alpha  
I agree. I’m on the verge of writing a GreaseMonkey/ViolentMonkey script to put them back.

I am making an arbitrary decision here and keeping it short in the link with long in the dropdown.

@Princess Luna  
Seriously, why do they need to be one button? They were fine as two.

@Joey  
Swapping the full and short positions. Short will be referred to on the button as “Tagless”. I’ll go back to a cookie-based or even JS storage-based solution if it turns out short is the common use case.  
I’d prefer to have statistics and thus to know if this is really the way to go, but unfortunately it’ll have to be experimental in nature.  
Scratch that, we’ll leave it alone for the time being.

Any progress on fixing the download links? I keep clicking the wrong ones because of several years of muscle memory

I personally like the icons for Write, Preview, and Post. They look nice, and don’t really detract from anything.

@Princess Luna  
I don’t see how “post” on both posts and comments is more consistent than “post” on posts and “comment” on comments. “Post on both message input fields” is but I think most people are going to mentally separate the two.

@Zeb”:/meta/site-development-notification-and-feedback-thread/post/3668762#post_3668762  
Well, the metabar hasn’t had any additional icons added except technically the down-arrows (which came along with moving the icon-buttons into the dropdowns, for a net change of smaller icons).

@Princess Luna  
The premium I was referring to was the uploader and meta-bars.  
And I had never heard of any staff having issues with the post/sticky buttons until you brought up that fix the other day. [Which, yes, I know that doesn’t mean it wasn’t happening.]  
And yeah “write” with an icon is technically taking up less space. But looks like it’s taking up more due to the icon standing out as something separate.
 
And as I said: Most of this is just personal observation/taste. Not something concrete/functional I have an issue with.

@Zeb  
Space isn’t at a premium in the comment box area at all, and Write used to be, on comments “Leave a Comment”. The idea was to replace inconsistent and redundant wording with quickly-recognizable icons (in part because us moderators were managing to mistake “Stick topic” for “Post a reply”; a big sign that buttons had issues with immediate recognition).  
I suspect actually that your feeling of clutter comes from the extra stuff moderators have; most people don’t have to contend with a loose pile of topic-control tools under the post box. I’ll fix that eventually, but it’s low priority unless we still hit the wrong buttons.

@WingbeatPony  

 
I dunno. For me at least, it’s starting to make things look kinda cluttered.  
And especially unessesary on things like the “write” and “preview” tabs.
 
It was said that space was a premium and some of the recent organization issues was because there wasn’t enough space to fit the info, and now MORE space is being taken up by adding pictures next to everything.
 
But I can admit that’s mostly a personal aesthetic issue.

This is my idea of my ideal, best-of-all-worlds situation for the view buttons:  

Having one option as a dropdown menu is only going to piss off the people who use the one that gets put under the dropdown. I think it should either be an option, or made separate buttons again.
 
In the event that the separate buttons are brought back, I suppose if you want to keep them as icons you could add an “S” or something to the short-filename buttons to distinguish them, if that’s possible.

I already made a comment in the other thread, but I suppose this is the actual feedback one, so I just want to add that I too would prefer separate buttons or a settings option, particularly while things like “subscribe” and “related,” options I never use, take up so much room.

+1 for separate buttons.
 
Either that, or an option for users to choose which one should be default.

@Princess Luna  
I think that buttons should be separated, not flipped - you can access full res with long filename in two ways, but full res with short in only one. Unless you mean user-configurability which one comes first.  
Can they be made to merge if window width is too low?

@Princess Luna
 
@Lead Pie  
I’m with LP on this one. I’d be quite miffed having to download images with short filenames. Again: Why do they suddenly need to be combined in to one button?

@Princess Luna  
Why not just make them separate again ?  
I for example would be terribly pissed if you add an extra step for me everytime I just want to download an image without a mile long filename.

@Princess Luna  
The thing is, long file names was the default option before, with short filenames being on the side and abbreviated.
 
 
Looking forward to the metabar being fixed.

The metabar will likely get further work in a week or so. Right now, artist credit is likely the only UI change that’ll be coming in until then.  
View and Download could have their main buttons and dropdown buttons flipped, and that might happen soon; unfortunately, I don’t think we have any statistics available to determine if this would be a bad idea (people usually only complain when affected, so it’s hard to gauge how many prefer short filenames).

@Princess Luna  
There are a few non-stylistic issues remaining which ought to be fixed.
 

@Barhandar  
I wouldn’t say adding icons to them is needed. But if they want to, I guess it’s still okay.

@Princess Luna  
That sounds un-intuitive, and seems to go against the whole “easier to do/use” bit. Why do the buttons suddenly need to be combined, again?
 
@Lead Pie  
Agreed. The metabar ending in the middle of nowhere doesn’t fit with the rest of the site layout; everything either ends in the middle (for the left aligned layout), or it’s full width. The metabar is just this horrid thing that ends in no particular spot.  
As I mentioned earlier, a full width metabar would not only be more consistent across images, but it’d also look nicer, and fit with the rest of the site. Y’know, like how the old layout did.
 
In regards to the tags: Why do they suddenly need to be constrained? There was nothing wrong with them being full width. They were easier to read when full width, and it took less effort to get down to the comments section. Now, with them being constrained, images such as the Community Collaborations take that much more effort to get down to the comments, because suddenly the wall of tags is about twice as long as it was.
 
 
@Princess Luna  
I really don’t see why the post button needs an icon, but that is far less distracting than the mess that the current metabar is in, so I guess it’s okay.
 
One final thing: Has the button spacing on the metabar been changed, or is it still that awful thing where it’s three groups of buttons? Because I’m seeing the latter, even after a hard refresh (ctrl + shift + R), and I don’t know whether that’s because it’s my end, or the site’s.

@Princess Luna  
The post icon feels to be much smaller now.
 
@Lead Pie  
Iconing tabs would be a bad idea.

@Princess Luna  
I’d still like to have the metabar and tags full width. Guess tags were also a separator between image and comments for me. I can live with the tags, but please don’t let the bar end just somewhere in the middle. It looks bad.  
Lastly, can you make the “edit description” button consistent, maybe in the bottom right corner of the box ? It feels all over the place right now.
 
I can’t spot many differences on the comment/write thing, but I don’t have anything bad to say there. And yeah, speech bubble icon is probably a good idea. The pencil would probably be better for the “Write” tab.