The hearts come not only from other android apps like mastodon, but I also tried out a lot of things, and the hearts look the best.
I get that its weird, and if someone finds some good android-compliant up and down unfilled and filled arrows (they aren’t in the android material icon extended repo), I’ll consider it. But keep in mind that every tiny UI change is going to upset some people, and this app is still in alpha. When and if I switch back to arrows, people will have gotten used to the hearts, and complain again.
It’s a heart now. The up / down arrow thing was too ugly, and its only used on Reddit now anyway.
Hmm, but a heart and a thumb down is not really the opposite of each other…
Personally I find this choice weird and a bit ugly in its own way but ultimately that’s a matter of subjective aesthetic preference.
This might be something you need to do some user research on.
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The hearts come not only from other android apps like mastodon, but I also tried out a lot of things, and the hearts look the best.
I get that its weird, and if someone finds some good android-compliant up and down unfilled and filled arrows (they aren’t in the android material icon extended repo), I’ll consider it. But keep in mind that every tiny UI change is going to upset some people, and this app is still in alpha. When and if I switch back to arrows, people will have gotten used to the hearts, and complain again.
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I’ve moved to all outlined material icons, and android has no outline arrow up or down: https://fonts.google.com/icons?icon.query=arrow+up&icon.platform=android&icon.set=Material+Icons&icon.style=Filled
I moved to the heart because its what masto and twitter were using, and it looked really good.
Boost for android has some good outlined arrow icons, but I couldn’t find where they were from as its a closed-source project.
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