Suggestion -- Tap comment to collapse and pop-out image viewer (lemmy.ca)

submitted 1 year ago by zhou@lemmy.ca to c/summit@lemmy.world

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With the recent change to allow swiping for actions this checks almost every box I have for general usability. Just two things come to mind:

It would be nice to be able to tap a comment to collapse and hold to show menu when swipes are enabled so it's a bit faster to browse comments.
The ability to pop out an image (that can be swiped away, ideally) would be nice since clicking an image halfway down the page often leads to having to scroll down to see the whole thing.

Relatively minor things and doesn't break the experience at all, but would help usability just a touch.

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[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately both of these actually do interfere with the current UX and neither are only positive. This means both will need to be togglable settings.

The reasoning for (1) is, I've seen users complain for other apps that it was annoying that tapping a comment collapsed them because sometimes they were trying to tap a link and missing. The current behavior when gestures is on is it would just expand the actions which will not really interfere with the tap.

The reasoning for (2) is, currently tapping an icon doesn't just expand the image, it also expands all content for that post (you are essentially looking at the entire post). Changing the behavior to tap to see image would get rid of the ability to see the entire post if the user wanted to (me being a user of my app, I want this lol). Technically right now, if you wanted to see the image you can tap once to expand and tap on the expanded image even if its only partially shown to see the image in the image viewer. This is sort of a workaround but it requires 2 taps.

I think for a complete solution these will need to be toggles you can enable within settings.

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world -1 points 1 year ago

Both are relatively easy to implement so I can see if I can add them for the next release.

[-] zhou@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago

Thanks for the response, and agree, they would definitely need to be settings that are togglable since they affect important parts of behaviour.

Just thought I'd suggest since they've been on my mind, but certainly not deal-breakers and I understand if you don't want to add additional settings!

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I'm going to add the tap comment to collapse as a setting, but you should know that you can currently collapse comments by tapping anywhere in the comment header (aside from the author's name).

[-] zhou@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Yep, and I make use of it. It would just be marginally more convenient to be able to collapse say a long comment after I've read it without having to scroll back up.

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 0 points 1 year ago

I thought of another idea for the tap to fullscreen image. I think it might actually make sense as a long press action perhaps? That way you don't have to choose between the two behaviors. I'll add it in the next update and you can try it out.

[-] Frools@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

There's a couple small bugs with the long press to view feature:

Doesn't mark the post as read
When the image is dismissed it flashes up briefly full screen after the animation plays

I think it would be nice to have a toggle to make the long press behaviour on single tap, it's just a bit slower to have to hold

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

> When the image is dismissed it flashes up briefly full screen after the animation plays

I fixed it woohoo. That was so annoying to fix :x. Dammit Android.

[-] Frools@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

Nice!

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Doesn’t mark the post as read Will do

When the image is dismissed it flashes up briefly full screen after the animation plays I can't reproduce this on any of the 5 test devices I have. What version of Android are you running?

I think it would be nice to have a toggle to make the long press behaviour on single tap, it’s just a bit slower to have to hold I can add the setting.

[-] Frools@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago

I can't reproduce this on any of the 5 test devices I have. What version of Android are you running

Android 12 on a OnePlus 7

I'm in pure black dark mode if that matters

[-] idunnololz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

That device isn't even that old so that is very odd. For context one of my test devices is a motorola G5+ from 2017. I wonder if it's an issue with oxygen os.