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Fixing Photon's navigation (self.photon)
submitted 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago) by Xylight to c/photon
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Update: Photon v1.29.4 has addressed these concerns. Let me know what you think here

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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[-] Skelectus@suppo.fi 2 points 4 months ago

There are a couple things.

Might be that I'm still used to old photon, but point A has been bothering me. I keep looking at the wrong side first.

The other thing has been that Home was moved away from the sidebar, where all the other "browse x" buttons are. Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, all/subscribed might deserve their own buttons there.

The new layout as-is seems like an improvement for mobile, though I haven't spent much time to properly try it on my phone.

Oh, and, now that I'm here, thanks for all the effort. Photon is just excellent.

[-] Xylight 3 points 4 months ago

I've taken in some of this feedback, let me know what you think of Photon v1.29.4

[-] Skelectus@suppo.fi 1 points 4 months ago

I noticed it right after writing the comment, now deployed. This immediately feels like it gets most of it right. I'll see if I have more thoughts later.

this post was submitted on 26 May 2024
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