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Snapey's avatar
Level 122

New layout - polite suggestions

Constructive ideas about the new layout

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Snapey's avatar
Level 122

When you receive a notification the bell appears over your avatar. However clicking the bell brings out the "Me" menu. A second click is required to access the notification. Given that clicking the avatar to see notifications is the primary use case, this extra click is annoying.

Snapey's avatar
Level 122

Under a post title is now the authors name whereas previously the last poster was mentioned. Knowing who had replied last means that it is possible to determine that someone who is likely to know the answer is already on the case. Now, with the new layout not only is it not possible to immediately see who is replying, but also, how long ago they posted.

D9705996's avatar

I have a couple of issues/suggestions with the new redesign that may or may not have been mentioned elsewhere.

  1. When you Post you get Reply to CONVERSATION not Reply to (the actual conversation name)

  2. The lesson search doesn't have an option for "unwatched"

  3. On mobile when adding a post through the modal the modal and virtual keyboard take up the entire screen (I'm using a 10 inch tablet on portrait and landscape) so it is impossible to see the original post.

  4. The modal window is not scrollable so longer posts push the action button outside the viewport so you cannot actually post your reply.

  5. It would be good to allow a posting keyboard shortcut e.g. ctrl +enter

  6. It would be good to have a permalink to a reply available so specific comments can be referenced in other threads

The last one should be simple @keyup.ctrl.enter="" but would be really useful (GitHub and Gitlab provide this).

The main deal breakers for me right now are 3 and 4. For mobile would it be possible to return to the inline form from the old design , with the new styling?

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