TV Seasons & Horizontal Scrolling

[Sketchy 7]

Before the change to 4.2x you could easily glance at a shows seasons to get an overall picture of how many episodes of a show you have yet to watch as well as how many seasons of a show there is in general. This helps you get a feel for how much is left to watch overall, as well as to quickly tell how many episodes or seasons of a show might be MISSING. With the changes made on 4.2x and having the seasons now use horizontal scrolling, shows with large amounts of seasons now have that information obfuscated in a rather unappealing way. Some shows I have, such as "Disney Animated Shorts" and "Looney Tunes" have seasons starting all the way back from the 1920's. Scrolling from start to finish on the Disney Shorts now takes eight mouse clicks and Looney Tunes takes seven mouse clicks. I do not think it makes any sense to make the Seasons of a show require horizontal scrolling. At the very least, there should be an option for people as to whether the Seasons of TV shows "wrap" vs requiring horizontal scrolling. I also think showing every single remaining episode in a season as "Next Up" is rather redundant and silly but at least horizontal scrolling in that case actually makes some sense. If someone were to ask me what integer comes "next up" after the number 7, I would say the answer is 8, not every single number that is greater than 7... I think you guys are just in love with horizontal scrolling.

[Luke 42077]

 

 

I think you guys are just in love with horizontal scrolling.

 

Hi, thanks for the feedback. The counter argument to this is, when multiple sections scroll vertically, do you realize how many users report that they can't find whichever ones are located underneath the first one? All because they didn't scroll down?

 

It is a bigger problem than you might think. When you have multiple sections scroll horizontally, you can always see a portion of the next section which lets you know there's more content to be found.

[Sketchy 7]

My biggest beef is just the change to the TV Seasons specifically, and having them horizontal. Couldn't you guys just make some of the horizontal scrolling stuff optional though, so users could choose whether they'd prefer horizontal or for things to wrap which would make it vertical scrolling instead? Options are good... It's a win/win for both sides when you give people options. Why people would be confused with vertical scrolling is beyond me. It's the norm for pc's and phones and websites, etc.

[Luke 42077]

Options are always possible for the future. Thanks.

[katbyte 40]

+1 for an option to not horizontally scroll seasons. When a show has 20+ seasons horizontal scroll becomes pretty silly and i have a show now that is over 50

[GrimReaper 4739]

4 hours ago, katbyte said:

+1 for an option to not horizontally scroll seasons. When a show has 20+ seasons horizontal scroll becomes pretty silly and i have a show now that is over 50

Which client app? You can use CSS for local Web app. 

Edited March 21, 2023 by GrimReaper

[katbyte 40]

mainly andriodTV + appleTV

chrome would be nice to have it as well, but is at least less annoying as there are "pages"

[GrimReaper 4739]

9 minutes ago, katbyte said:

chrome would be nice to have it as well

Should work in Chrome (or any other browser) for local Web app:

div.childrenSection div.scrollSlider {
    flex-wrap: wrap;
}

 

[btaylortherogue 0]

On 3/21/2023 at 10:04 AM, GrimReaper said:

Should work in Chrome (or any other browser) for local Web app:

div.childrenSection div.scrollSlider {
    flex-wrap: wrap;
}

 

First, sorry for Necro'ing a thread.  

Can you explain how this is implemented?

I have copy-pasted it into Settings>Server>Settings>Custom CSS and hit 'save', but my seasons on google chrome (accessed from localhost:port) are still requiring side scrolling.

Is the code just outdated, or am I putting it in the wrong place?  Thanks in advance.

[Smitty018210 143]

On 3/21/2023 at 11:04 AM, GrimReaper said:

Should work in Chrome (or any other browser) for local Web app:

div.childrenSection div.scrollSlider {
    flex-wrap: wrap;
}

 

@GrimReaperSorry to bother you, but this dose not seem to work. Did an update break it? 

Also of you know is it possible to use a similar code to wrap the Cast & Crew list?

I am trying to eliminate as much horizontal scrolling as possible with CSS and was wondering if it was possible to wrap these two elements.

Thanks! 

 

[GrimReaper 4739]

4 hours ago, Smitty018210 said:

@GrimReaperSorry to bother you, but this dose not seem to work. Did an update break it? 

Also of you know is it possible to use a similar code to wrap the Cast & Crew list?

I am trying to eliminate as much horizontal scrolling as possible with CSS and was wondering if it was possible to wrap these two elements.

Thanks! 

 

Yeah, looks like, can't make it to wrap with CSS either, guess due to virtualScrollLayout implemented. You'd need to edit item.js and replace virtualScrollLayout: "horizontal-grid" with "vertical-grid" in desired area(s).

 

Maybe @Happy2Playwill have some other idea.

 

[Smitty018210 143]

1 hour ago, GrimReaper said:

Yeah, looks like, can't make it to wrap with CSS either, guess due to virtualScrollLayout implemented. You'd need to edit item.js and replace virtualScrollLayout: "horizontal-grid" with "vertical-grid" in desired area(s).

 

Maybe @Happy2Playwill have some other idea.

 

Crap, I've got no idea what your talking about. I barely understand CSS, which is to say I don't have a clue what I am doing. lol

The only coding experience I've got is some HTML from 20 years ago. lol 

Thanks

 

Edited July 19, 2025 by Smitty018210

[zippy72 1]

Six years later and we're still waiting for the "options are possible for the future".

Could we have a setting that says "display seasons as a scrolling line" or "display seasons in a grid".

Since we can't have specials connected to episodes I'm trying to rearrange the Doctor Who extras into a "Doctor Who Extras" series with one season per story. Which means I'll need 155 seasons... not ideal but it's the best I've got so far