I won't be able to use the flag EXPERIMENTAL_FEATURES=profile_redesign for a while. I do not have time to redesign ours. I really think the Mastodon core team has made some poor choices lately, UX anti-patterns are popping up again. Last time, they changed post visibility under a modal that required up to six clicks and added unnecessary cognitive strain. I even sent a PR suggestion, but they rejected it.
Right now we have "Posts" and "Posts and replies" in tabs, but in the experimental profile redesign there's a "Posts" toggle that contains "Replies" and "Posts" toggles underneath it. It adds extra clicks and combines interface elements under one toggle, which just creates more friction. What's wrong with traditional tabs?
I wish they'd stop breaking what already works well. Honestly, as a long-time front-end developer, I don't understand some of these design choices. Hopefully, these experimental features will mature a bit before they make it to stable.
Issues opened:
... Show more...I won't be able to use the flag EXPERIMENTAL_FEATURES=profile_redesign for a while. I do not have time to redesign ours. I really think the Mastodon core team has made some poor choices lately, UX anti-patterns are popping up again. Last time, they changed post visibility under a modal that required up to six clicks and added unnecessary cognitive strain. I even sent a PR suggestion, but they rejected it.
Right now we have "Posts" and "Posts and replies" in tabs, but in the experimental profile redesign there's a "Posts" toggle that contains "Replies" and "Posts" toggles underneath it. It adds extra clicks and combines interface elements under one toggle, which just creates more friction. What's wrong with traditional tabs?
I wish they'd stop breaking what already works well. Honestly, as a long-time front-end developer, I don't understand some of these design choices. Hopefully, these experimental features will mature a bit before they make it to stable.
Issues opened:
github.com/ronilaukkarinen/masā¦
github.com/ronilaukkarinen/masā¦
Will hold off for now.
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Currently under a flag: EXPERIMENTAL_FEATURES=profile_redesign Before: After - completely obliterates the profile page: Related PRs: mastodon/mastodon#37811 mastodon/mastodon#37851
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Roni Rolle Laukkarinen
in reply to Roni Rolle Laukkarinen • • •What I mean specifically are these endless toggles everywhere. Click-click-click-click. Before it was just a click.
Also, why change the most used hashtags into a horizontal list? And what's with that huge button to show more pinned items? What was wrong with the old setup? The carousel wasn't great either, but I liked the version that showed them one below the other.
What problems are we actually trying to solve here?
I know these aren't shipped yet, but does anyone actually use Figma and discuss UX?
#UI #UX #MastoAdmin #Mastodon
Roni Rolle Laukkarinen
in reply to Roni Rolle Laukkarinen • • •I feel like my Mastodon fork will eventually go completely off-branch since I've been cherry-picking features anyway after 4.5. Some of the core ones just don't make sense to me.
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Timothy R. Butler
in reply to Roni Rolle Laukkarinen • • •Roni Rolle Laukkarinen
in reply to Timothy R. Butler • • •@trbutler My fork has included Mastodon Bird UI from the beginning, but it's just a modified Mastodon and nothing "official" like glitch-ui github.com/mementomori-social/ā¦
We do have more and more "features" though: help.mementomori.social/mementā¦
We'll see what happens in the future.
GitHub - mementomori-social/mastodon: Your self-hosted, globally interconnected microblogging community
GitHubIlkka Tengvall
in reply to Roni Rolle Laukkarinen • • •Roni Rolle Laukkarinen
in reply to Ilkka Tengvall • • •Ilkka Tengvall
in reply to Roni Rolle Laukkarinen • • •Timothy R. Butler
in reply to Ilkka Tengvall • • •Renaud Chaput
in reply to Roni Rolle Laukkarinen • • •I appreciate the feedback and the concerns here, but I want to point our that those changes are not for the sake of changing.
Our designer (and the various platform developers) are trying to solve many of the problems existing with those interface, while making space for some new features. All of this is deeply thought and discussed (internally, not sure how we could be more public on this) and designed in Figma (for all platforms) before implementation. Then changed if wrong.
Riku Voipio
in reply to Roni Rolle Laukkarinen • • •Roni Rolle Laukkarinen
in reply to Riku Voipio • • •Kalle KniivilƤ
in reply to Roni Rolle Laukkarinen • • •@suihkulokki @MastodonEngineering Could we have this in @pachli as well, quick boosts? I hardly ever use quote posts.
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Roni Rolle Laukkarinen
in reply to Kalle KniivilƤ • • •Shouldn't it already exist as a pretty basic feature in your preferences since 4.5+? If you have quote posts, you should have this already.
EDIT: Oh, somehow misread Pachli Android app... yeah, it's not implemented in all of the apps.
@suihkulokki @MastodonEngineering @pachli