It seems the navigation is widely disliked by many people. I want Photon to be the most intuitive UI, so I'd like to fix this. Which of these should I do?

A - Revert the positions of the items on the navigation bar (Profile on right, home on left)

B - Have the default navigation be top on desktop

C - Move some things out of the profile menu into the navbar.

D - Revert the navbar entirely

Or give any other ideas you have. These changes were pushed early because I did not see any pushback early in the betas.

My only fear is that changing it back yet again will have ruined the muscle memory for both types of navigation.

I'll be releasing some betas soon to adjust navigation and take in more feedback before committing.

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[–] Tywele@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I think the new layout is fine for mobile but should be reverted completely for desktop.

From there (v1.28.1 basically) I suggest the following changes:

move the account switching to the profile menu in the top right
instead of clicking on your current account again in the account switcher to logout you should add a logout button in this menu
the "Accounts" menu entry could be renamed to "Manage Accounts" to make things clearer
move the Inbox, Profile and Saved menu buttons inplace of the Account switching
I think you can keep the profile picture as an icon for the profile link in this menu. For Inbox and Saved I didn't bother to change the icons for this mockup

These changes would put all the functionality that is used more often closer together and reduce the amount of mouse travel.