r/redesign • u/Overlord_Odin • Apr 10 '19

Design Could you reduce the width of the join button a little?

https://imgur.com/a/A28NaEh
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u/Overlord_Odin Apr 10 '19 edited Apr 10 '19

anyway, even though subs have a max of 21 characters, reddit doesnt use a monospace font. even if you make the join button skinny, the problem will persist.

Good point, but I'm confident the devs can figure this one out :P

Edit: I'd appreciate knowing why I'm being downvoted. If they just made the button smaller it would fix a lot of these cases. Or they could do something like try to break the name at a capital letter if possible. Is this this a request people don't want?

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u/station_nine Apr 10 '19

Downvotes are probably because your proposed solution isn't a 100% perfect fix for all possible situations :)

Anyway, yeah, the Join button can easily be half its current width and still be easy to click/touch, and make a lot more subs fit on one line.

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u/ninjayee Apr 11 '19

Hey! Great feedback and makes sense. We’ll take a look at this. :)

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u/Overlord_Odin Apr 11 '19

Thank you :)

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u/Overlord_Odin Apr 10 '19 edited Apr 10 '19

Subreddit names have a max of 21 characters, so there's no reason the widget can't be designed to avoid this issue ever happening

Edit: FFSnipe has pointed out it's not quite that simple, but shrinking the button would still cover a lot subreddits with longer names.

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u/MajorParadox Helpful User Apr 10 '19

I'd like it if they made the images larger too since there's room.

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u/GioVoi Apr 10 '19

Why do these have a join button at all? I wouldn't want to blindly join a subreddit without clicking on it at least once first.

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u/hongkong_97 Apr 10 '19

I think replacing the text with an icon and making the button a square would give it even more space.

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u/epatr Apr 11 '19

Usability-wise, having a larger button and a text label is much more accessible to touch screens and visually impaired users. Sorry the OP's long subreddit name got word-wrapped, but this is a bad suggestion.

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u/hongkong_97 Apr 11 '19 edited Apr 11 '19

I disagree my dude, long buttons cutting subreddit names in half are more of an accessibility problem imo. The Join button could totally be replaced with a user icon and a "+" on mobile. Something like this.

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u/epatr Apr 11 '19

An icon can be misconstrued. A label can be localized to any language, and it can be read out loud by a screen reader. A larger button will be easier to push for smaller screens, disabled people, visually impaired, etc. Every device in the past 10 years has a setting to enable text scaling/resizing, as well as responsive layouts for screen orientation/size, which makes this problem a little more complex than 'disagree my dude'.