Replace owlcarousel for carousel slides (or not)

[MegaKeegMan]

See https://github.com/OwlCarousel2/OwlCarousel2 "YEAH SO THIS IS PRETTY MUCH DEAD, DO YOURSELF A FAVOR AND SWITCH TO tiny-slider"

While we could switch to tiny slider, as recommended by the developers of owlcarousel, we should ideally avoid custom integration of js, and even more ideally avoid use of carousels at all. This can still be done, but noteworthy that carousels are often recommended against, despite their popularity.

[mikefortun]

I'm all for avoiding customization when possible, but this may be a case where we will have to settle for the less-than-ideal and go with tiny-slider. The front page sliders have been popular because they've been a good and easy way for the Little Admins of each instance to add quick portals from the front page to new projects, and to provide a good sense of the many different things that are going on. If there are other ways to do similar things without depending on the custom integration of carousels then that makes it easy, but I suspect not. I can also poll the various instance admins to see how they would feel about losing the front page sliders. Maybe we can defer a decision on this for a while?

[MegaKeegMan]

Thanks for sharing the value this feature provides. I don't think there is any rush to make a decision on this. If there are any non-custom alternatives, we will document them here.

[MegaKeegMan]

Does the carousel need to autoplay?

[mikefortun]

isn't that kind of the definition of carousel? Or are you talking about a kind of slider that would only slide if you click of hover over the arrows on either side -- a Netflixxy-kinda thing?

[mikefortun]

so I guess the question is, is there anything in between carousel and no carousel? and/or can you say more now about why carousels are recommended against? because they are customized and therefore subject to becoming unsupported like owlcarousel has?

[MegaKeegMan]

A cool module that allows animating paragraphs withiin a container paragraph https://www.drupal.org/project/drowl_paragraphs

Note that this module requires a theme based on Zurb Foundation 6.x, which was in the top 3 considerations for theme

[MegaKeegMan]

The slides are coming along. I was looking at the image sizing so I can get into actually styling the images here, and it looks like all of the images that I see are 960 x 230. These dimensions make sense on desktop, but not so much on mobile. I know there is not a lot of emphasis on mobile for this platform, which makes sense for people who are using it to perform research and collaborate, but it makes less sense for the visitor who heard about the platform at a conference and wants to check it out—The text on the slides cannot be read on mobile.

While there probably won't be very many of them per site, given that they will be the first thing a visitor sees when they land on the home page, maybe the words in the image should be legible on mobile. I am recommending that perhaps we actually have 2 image fields for slides, one for large and one for small screens.

[MegaKeegMan]

Decided in chat on the 2 image option