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:Eh I dunno. They're still all stubs; splitting them in this template wouldn't do much except take up more space. [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[Image:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The Incomperable 09:39, 21 August 2015 (EDT)
:Eh I dunno. They're still all stubs; splitting them in this template wouldn't do much except take up more space. [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[Image:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The Incomperable 09:39, 21 August 2015 (EDT)
::The thing is, smasher and mainspace articles concern very different matters and as such require different kinds of knowledge. Plus, as I feel mainspace is (arguably) more "objectively" relevant, I too think seeing that 1000+ is misleading with regard to the wiki's status. -[[User:Menshay|Menshay]] ([[User talk:Menshay|talk]]) 05:56, 18 September 2015 (EDT)
::The thing is, smasher and mainspace articles concern very different matters and as such require different kinds of knowledge. Plus, as I feel mainspace is (arguably) more "objectively" relevant, I too think seeing that 1000+ is misleading with regard to the wiki's status. -[[User:Menshay|Menshay]] ([[User talk:Menshay|talk]]) 05:56, 18 September 2015 (EDT)
== Draft rewrite ==
I have a rewrite ready at '''[[User:Rigel Kent/MaintenanceLinks draft]]''', viewable at '''[[User:Rigel Kent/MaintenanceLinks tests]]'''.
The main change is the flow of content. Left-to-right lists with CSS padding, rather than tables with top icons before bottom numbers and spacer cells. Keeping each icon adjacent to its corresponding number simplifies the parser logic, and makes it easier to move icons around, if needed.
If anyone would like to double-check it's working correctly, this is what should be happening:
* In all browsers, if a section is empty, it outputs nothing, rather than an extra wide gap (which is actually a bandwidth-hogging blank table containing spacer cells).
* In IE8, the borders appear correctly.
* In IE9+ and current desktop browsers, there are no significant visual changes.
* In mobile browsers, the icons are spaced apart a bit more, and shrink less when a list hits the full screen width.
If anything looks off, please let me know. I don't want to copy the draft over unless it works for everyone.
One last thing: since this shows up on the main page and on [[Special:RecentChanges]], bandwidth could be important. The load can be reduced by splitting the styles (some applicable to desktop only, some to mobile only) into the skin-specific CSS files. I'll be happy to write the CSS, if admins would prefer that. [[User:Rigel Kent|<ruby lang="ja">ライケン<rp>&nbsp;</rp><rt lang="en">Rigel Kent</rt></ruby>]]&nbsp;([[User talk:Rigel Kent|talk]]) 20:59, 23 July 2016 (EDT)

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