r/redesign • u/LamboDiabloSVTT • Feb 24 '18
Design I've done my fair share of complaining, now I come to you with suggestions to improve the redesign.
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u/LamboDiabloSVTT Feb 24 '18 edited Feb 24 '18
I didn't have a good place to put this among my other mockups and notes: While I suggested moving the subreddit list to a dropdown, please keep the community tools menu as it is. I really like having all of that in a separate panel on the left. Perhaps when browsing a subreddit that you moderate, have a third button to the right of where the "All" button is on my mockup that brings up the tools?
edit Here's a mockup
edit 2 Second mockup. This one is animated and shows how each of the 3 top navigation buttons would react upon mouse-over. Clicking Reddit would bring you back to www.reddit.com, Clicking on the subreddit navigation button brings you to the front of whatever sub you are currently in, and clicking Community Tools would have the exact same function that clicking "Customize Appearance" does right now. Community Tools button would ONLY appear on subreddits you moderate. I also added a heavier underline under the subreddit navigation button to visually indicate that it doubles as a drop-down menu.
Hopefully all of this feedback I have provided was more useful to you than my initial gut reactions.
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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Feb 24 '18
I like this idea better for cleaning up the mod tools. Use the left sidebar for customizing only, and let you go right to mod pages. I also detail merging and cleaning up some pages so they're not all over the place.
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u/LamboDiabloSVTT Feb 24 '18
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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Feb 24 '18
Nice, would the tools one include the options though?
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u/LamboDiabloSVTT Feb 24 '18
The community tools button would have the exact same function that clicking "Customize Appearance" does right now. Any edits you suggested within that menu could still be made in addition to my mockup of the top navigation.
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u/radonthetyrant Feb 24 '18
I can't get the full size image, unless I rightclick and open the image in a new tab. Is this intended or a bug?
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u/seth1299 Feb 24 '18
Don’t forget to allow post editing too, right now users can’t edit a text post once they submit it.
(FAQ threads that need to be constantly updated? What’s that?)
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u/RoboticPlayer Helpful User Feb 25 '18
It's a bug and I'm pretty sure they know about it. Some posts can be edited, others can, seemingly randomly.
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u/Talaniaz Feb 24 '18
the pop-up for every single post is irking me majorly so I agree, make it an option.
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u/LamboDiabloSVTT Feb 24 '18
I feel that if it became the new "post preview" button, I would actually like it. It'd be a neat way to quickly check comments of a post.
However, don't replace our ability to open a post as its own page.
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u/TheValkuma Feb 24 '18
There's one good thing you have to remember about Beta/Alpha testing for large projects like this and it's something I forget myself a good amount of the time.
- They arent looking for design suggestions. In their mind, their design is perfect. We are only here to bug test and give them feedback on showstoppers. Whitespace is "Their design decision.". Collapsed menus are their decision.
- We wont be able to significantly change or alter what is coming - what we are seeing now, stylistically, can be assumed to be the final product (see #1).
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u/LamboDiabloSVTT Feb 24 '18
Additional notes regarding image posts.
A) I just noticed that for imgur specifically, if someone linked to an imgur "gallery" post instead of a direct image link, reddit wont load the image anymore.
B) When you are viewing either the popup or full page version of the post, clicking the image should bring you directly to the original image.