Then you like the style of it and where I put it? You also like the way it reflexively appears to tell you that you've left your home clan and is otherwise invisible?
Do you think that showing only when away from home is a good default behavior? I think that a lot of people who never leave their home clan will never need to even know the function is active and that's a good thing, but people who switch clans a lot might be puzzled by the fact it disappears when they are in one of their many clans. Should I make always off to be the default?
Do you think I should make it more configurable on where it appears, or is the current spot probably perfect? (There's no current mechanism that will allow anything to be customized into that location, so I'd have to stretch if I want that to be an option for a customizable location.)
User Interface is complicated stuff and this script is 90% UI. So please understand the pile of questions for adding something so different from the rest.
I think the position and style are great where they are. It's unobtrusive, and fits with the information in that part of chit in general. I don't think it can fit anywhere else without it being... out of place, i guess.
The default thing is interesting. I actually got confused when it disappeared while I clan hopped, right before you posted, and it took me a moment to remember the convo in your relay override thread to figure it out. So it's a valid thought, as other people might not have read all that. I think it comes down to what the user knows is there:
Default all off: Average user might not know there's a function to show your clan at all, so it would more likely get ignored entirely
Default all but home clan: It might be confusing at times, like was said. Also, how is the home clan initially determined? Last clan slept in? If it's automatically set at first, it might not be where the user actually considers home, so to speak.
Default all on: Kind of like what you said about it being off in a home clan but in the other direction, I think an average user will see it there and think it's a nice addition. Since it's visually a very small addition, if you don't change clans at all or would otherwise ignore it anyway, it'll blend in. To give an example, I removed the mood button because I don't use it, but if I didn't know how or didn't care to change it, by now I wouldn't even realize it was there, you know what I mean?
So my honest opinion is that default be set to always on, with an unset home clan. I think if you're in need of the further functionality of setting a home clan and making that clan hidden when you hop, you'll know how to change the vars in the script to do so. I know I'm going to keep it set to on, because I tend to hop between using my side clan dungeon and chatting in my home clan chat, and sometimes I forget where I am and start talking to myself in /clan and oh god I'm so lonely why---
--- *hem* sorry.
I'm also interested in what the folks in the other thread's convo think about it.