I’ve been playing around with Jerboa’s UI trying to make it more consistent and readable

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    2 years ago

    Looks nice. Is this working code in a fork somewhere, or a non-functional visual mockup?

    • Most of the changes seem purely cosmetic, but I guess you decided to get rid of the button to list the communities in the bottom bar in favor of having people use the hamburger menu?
    • My favorite change is getting rid of the local/subscribed/all button in the top-bar and making the display of what’s currently suggested be a dropdown. That’s much easier to understand, and reduces clutter. Simply lovely.
    • The one thing that actually reads less clearly to me is the envelope icon to go to replies/etc in the bottom bar. If I didn’t have jerboa next to me to compare with, I wouldn’t be able to visually parse what that is supposed to me.
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      Thank you for the constructive feedback. This is not a mockup, it’s functional code. I will publish it and I will try to get it merged once I improve the styling and fix a few crashes. For the last point, I based the icon off of what similar apps like Infinity use. I guess it would make more sense to replace it with a bell or an envelope. Thank you so much for the very constructive comment :)

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        Good luck getting it merged, I’d really enjoy using these changes.

        On the icon I have difficulty reading, maybe it’s just me… go with what you feel is right. I actually use Infinity and I can see now that the icons match. I’ll certainly learn to read it with use and it won’t bother me once I get used to it. But if you’re thinking about a bell as a possible alternative, that would certainly align with the web UI. But subtle choices either way. Looks super great.

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        Good job with this! Apparently the inspiration for the Jerboa UI was Boost for Reddit. That’s not to say it needs to be a Boost clone in every single way, but if you want to see why certain decisions were made, it’s a good app to look at. I see that when you made the change to a dropdown for local/subscribed/all, we lost the sub text that shows what the current sort order is (active/hot/etc). I don’t know if that’s difficult to add back, but it’s something I personally would miss.