Timeline for Live: Left nav, new theming and responsiveness
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| Jun 17, 2018 at 2:26 | comment | added | Masked Man | "Promoting navigation aids and advertising over actual content is not "responsive" at all in my book." This! A million times this! Putting more ads is fine with me, but don't justify it with flimsy excuses like "responsive". I see that @JoeFriend chose to respond to that criticism with ... ignoring it entirely! Why can't you just say, "we are introducing left nav bar so that more people will look at Teams, and we will get a bigger bonus"? Be sincere. | |
| Jun 13, 2018 at 11:42 | comment | added | tripleee | @Makyen has a userscript for moving the left bar to the top bar: github.com/makyen/StackExchange-userscripts/blob/master/… | |
| Jun 12, 2018 at 3:57 | comment | added | user5670895 | @Tyler: I've been using SO for years, and ever since the top bar re-design a year or so ago I still have no idea what most of the buttons do. The problem is that there are too many low-contrast icons that look fairly similar. Furthermore, it's not obvious that they're drop-down menus (I still expect them to bring me to a different page), and the only way to identify them is through the tooltip. Each button should be labeled and there should be some indication that a menu will open (down triangle, etc.). | |
| Jun 8, 2018 at 6:27 | comment | added | tripleee | Visiting in private mode looks slightly less annoying (only about 15% white with the same screen width); I guess this is worse for Teams members. | |
| Jun 7, 2018 at 4:24 | comment | added | tripleee | Having a tooltip when you hover is hardly sufficient to make it obvious what the icons represent. What I'm trying to say is that if usability testing revealed that new users cannot find stuff which is now in the left bar, perhaps fixing the menus so you could guess what they do would have been a less intrusive change. | |
| Jun 7, 2018 at 4:20 | comment | added | tripleee | @TylerH This is Chrome on Mac OS High Sierra MacBook Pro, 15" (I think) Retina display. No zoom and no horizontal scrolling, though obviously I have scrolled down to illustrate how the "hot posts" column is filled with white when you do that. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 17:29 | comment | added | TylerH | @tripleee Also, hovering over each of these icons (which I find easily distinguishable from one another and only one of them could possibly be confused with a hamburger menu - the Stack Exchange menu icon on the far right) will produce a tooltip with the long form description of what each icon links to. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 17:27 | comment | added | TylerH | Er... what browser, resolution, and zoom level is that screenshot taken with? Are you sure you don't have any scripts running and have not manually scrolled down and over to the right? | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 17:10 | comment | added | tripleee | @JoeFriend The point I'm trying to make is that three of them are indistinguishable by quick glance. If you tell somebody "find the hamburger menu" and they look on the rigth, there are two of them there which look like good candidates, but aren't. I'm not a fan of tiny monochrome icons as menu items in the first place; there really isn't any way to guess what they contain. Maybe that's what's actually pushing you away from using proper menus in the first place? I know it's not web3.0 sexy but "review queue" and "site selector" would work a lot better than hamburgers with different handicaps. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 16:32 | comment | added | Joe Friend StaffMod | @tripleee There are actually 5-6 menus in the top bar depending on if you have left nav pinned or not. Left nav, inbox, achievements, review queues, help, and site switcher. They generally look and work in the same way. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 15:48 | comment | added | tripleee | Oh, sorry, I was imprecise. There are three menus whose icons look vaguely like (Minecraft) hamburgers, but obviously only one of them is the hamburger. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 15:34 | comment | added | Catija | The review queues icon is not a hamburger... | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 6:55 | comment | added | tripleee | There are now three hamburger menus: One on the left (if you click away the left bar), one with a checkmark on it (review queues) and one with a stem (the rightmost community icon). This really doesn't pass the laugh/cry test. | |
| Jun 6, 2018 at 6:54 | history | answered | tripleee | CC BY-SA 4.0 |