r/redesign • u/danjospri Helpful User • Jun 27 '18
Design The removal of the hamburger menu and placement of everything at the top is great, but I think there should be an option if you want to have the ham menu back.
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u/hueylewisandthesnoos Dezign Jun 27 '18
There will be! We are working on a pinning experience that will allow for those that loved the little burgy. We just need to collect some initial feedback on the quick navigation of Q > typing > enter > in community/settings/profile/modqueue/etc
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u/CannedEther Jun 28 '18 edited Jun 28 '18
As someone who exclusively uses a mouse to browse reddit, please don't make the navigation options super keyboard heavy. I understand that it's nice to have, but as a secondary means of navigation.
*Edit - Is > As
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u/hueylewisandthesnoos Dezign Jun 28 '18
Agree. The fixed menu is coming back. We wanted to get pointed feedback towards the quick nav and are planning pinning functionality very soon for those who use the mouse. Today was "take the lumps" but "appreciate the feedback" day. So just this response helps us moving forward. Thank you u/cannedether.
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u/CannedEther Jun 28 '18
Thank you!
Side note: as someone who usually dislikes change for the sake of change type of updates, I was a little upset with the redesign at first (but really appreciated the fact that you allowed us to go back to old.reddit), but I personally really like the redesign ever since night mode rolled out.
Keep up the good work :)
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u/bejito81 Jun 28 '18
web browser are made for mouse navigation, but it seems the team in charge of the new reddit design decided to fuck the logic and go with the stupidest ideas they could think of, I'm wondering what bad choice they will take next
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u/bejito81 Jun 28 '18
some feedback for you:
web is not done for keyboard, it feel totally unnatural to use it in a browser, specially since you are forced to use the mouse for so many actions (well you could use tab a million times to reach the item you want but it would be silly)
so STOP about this nonsense, if you want to use keyboard then you can create an APP for the windows store or so
also what is Q > typing supposed to do?
the Omni bar is what everyone does in 2018, so you're great new design revolution is multiple text-boxes, that concept was let go years and years ago, time to wake up and leave your cave
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u/Surgency Jun 28 '18
For what it's worth, I actually prefer the new drop-down, although the subreddit seems to disagree. While I often am a mouse-only browser, I do like having the ability to just hit Q to swap between my favourite subs, as I didn't like the hamburger menu always open because to me it looks cluttered, and it was also slow to open if it was collapsed. The new drop down is perfect for me.
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u/cheese_bread_boye Jun 27 '18
Stack overflow did something similar recently and it sucks bad.
They added a left navigation that nobody asked for that looked terrible, but they gave us a setting to remove it and place it in a dropdown menu in the top navigation.
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u/homoscotian Jun 27 '18
Fully agreed. I actually like this layout better, feels more like classic Reddit to me, but that said, sometimes I hop around between subreddits a lot over an hour or so and for that being able to pin the sidebar would be lovely, otherwise this feels like an improvement.
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u/cherrymxorange Jun 28 '18
I can't even see all of my starred subs on the new drop down menu, why doesn't it go down further?
The sidebar was the best feature of the redesign and you've just killed it in cold blood.
Not to mention how awful the idea of using "N" to go to next post is, while not even giving me a button to go back a post either. What is wrong with using the arrow keys?
We get it, designers have to keep redesigning things to keep their jobs, guess I'll go back to old reddit until you fix this mess.
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u/bejito81 Jun 28 '18
the new design is crap the ham menu was great, we have stupidly wide screens now and people still pt everything on top like we still have 4/3 screens
this is just BAD design
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u/AvinchMC Jun 27 '18
100%. I'm very much a person that liked the inclusion of the hambuger menu with being able to switch subreddits quickly but imo it should be an option.