(UPDATED) Wolvden & the Incessant Battle for Pretty Lore: Changing how we view the Biography section

Wolvden & the Incessant Battle for Pretty Lore:
Changing how we view the Biography section

         On my wolf’s personal profile the ‘Biography’ section doesn’t spark joy. As many of us are reliving our teenage dreams so comes the desire of wanting to write a our very own wolf novel. Wolvden seemed like the perfect place to display and read an individual character’s personal journey.
         Unfortunately, such a small scroll box doesn’t lend itself to focused reading or appreciation of beautiful images, leaving users to either display their art collection off site or dumping it unceremoniously on our Wolvden homepages— which, other than a forum post, is one of the only places an image can be viewed in full currently.
         My suggestion is to turn this scroll box into an Expand / Collapsible Box. This gives the viewer the option to see what lies beyond, enticed by the preview given... or to ignore it entirely and allow the wolf’s page to stay uniform throughout.

Mockup:


TL;DR: Change the Biography section to a Collapsible box so that stories and images can be read in a blog post-style manner rather than text compacted into a small scroll box. The same amount of text that we are currently allowed will still be the same.

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EDIT 2020-12-30:

Nestly also offered the idea of a Biography tab instead! I much prefer this idea, granted all of our text and images are displayed in full.

(mockup by Nestly)


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EDITEDIT 2021-1-24:

         An additional idea would be to keep a text space on the wolf page, similar to the one that's there now. Decrease the amount of characters allowed, but also allow the addition of a Biography tab. This would satisfy a need for ready and visible information (such as stud / stat / logging info) while also allowing the wolf to have a proper space for images and story that can be viewed more easily than a scrollbox.


Support, omg. I'd also like some sort of universal indicator (like, a symbol you can see from the den) that a wolf has a character bio (like a tickbox under settings, or something.) It'd be up to individual users to decide which wolves to mark, of course.

Edit: wait, I guess the book you can add to taglines counts for that. I barely see people using it, though.

I've never cared for how cramped the bio section felt. Full support.

Yes please!

This change would spark joy. <3

BIG SUPPORT! This is the next best thing to a fully customizable page for your den or wolves.

Maybe if we can change the colors too that'd be Epic- green doesn't really suit a lot of my images but yeah! Expandable/collapsible box is a good idea!!

oh i completely support this as well!!

Full support. Its definately a awkward height, this would feel much better to me.

Support! The box is very cramped, and whenever I want to read another wolf's lore, I have to scroll down often, reading with a limited view and all.