If It Ain't Broke....(chat)

[McBain]

...don't fix it, a wise man once said. Why the change to the chat functions? It was working just fine IMO. There are two rather annoying problems with the chat now. Firstly, you can't shrink the chat window to one line anymore. For those of us playing on phones, screen real estate is precious. Before, I liked that I could expand the chat if I wanted to, and get rid of it when I didn't need it. I personally only ever used the full chat window and the smallest one-line window, never the three-line one that is now standard. Maybe that's just a personal preference, but to me the three-line chat window is a little pointless. Big enough to be in the way, small enough that it doesn't really help with following the chat if that's why you're trying to do.

Which brings me to the second issue, the fact that you can't expand the chat window to full size without entering the typing screen. The two functions are essentially one and the same now. Previously, you could check the chat while you were moving, running around town or maps or whatever. Now you have to stop everything just to look at the full chat. Particularly annoying if you want to look back at something someone said while you're in the middle of a run, where you usually don't want to stop.

Did people ask for these changes? I'm just curious. I don't think I'm alone here, but if it's just me that liked the old chat functions better, I'll be quiet. I almost hate to complain, because STS does a fantastic job overall. I have nothing but respect and appreciation for everything the devs do. Just seems to me that there was nothing wrong with the chat to begin with, and while I know the intentions were good, it's quite the opposite of an improvement.