ASwedishEscapade:
By moving all user details into this drop-down box you've esentially made the User tab impossible to throw a glance at and know which users align with your interests/preferences. Now the only information you glean from users are their profile pic and username. Unless you manually open each and every users' drop-down box.
And what happens when you fat-finger this 10x10 pixel button? You open a new chat with that user. What a swell design choice considering the nature of this website.
On top of this you've removed the only fast way to reach a user's profile i.e via clicking their avatar in general chat. And in my case FFs profile search is completely broken. So I can't even open the profiles of chat users to understand who they are and what they want.
A new user (or cleaned cookies) who jumps into gen chat is bombarded by users joining/leaving chat. This is a bad idea and you should have that option disabled by default, not enabled.
By moving all user details into this drop-down box you've esentially made the User tab impossible to throw a glance at and know which users align with your interests/preferences. Now the only information you glean from users are their profile pic and username. Unless you manually open each and every users' drop-down box.
And what happens when you fat-finger this 10x10 pixel button? You open a new chat with that user. What a swell design choice considering the nature of this website.
On top of this you've removed the only fast way to reach a user's profile i.e via clicking their avatar in general chat. And in my case FFs profile search is completely broken. So I can't even open the profiles of chat users to understand who they are and what they want.
A new user (or cleaned cookies) who jumps into gen chat is bombarded by users joining/leaving chat. This is a bad idea and you should have that option disabled by default, not enabled.
We're rolling out updates incrementally, as mentioned before, so kindly bare with us as we make these gradual changes. What you see right now is not the full update.
Many features are still being worked on. For example, the “joining/leaving” notifications you mention will be removed entirely, and the “View Profile” button is coming back — this time in the dropdown menu for easier access consistent across both the chat user list and user tab.
Clicking on a username or avatar used to take you out of the chat app, which is something we've been meaning to fix for a while. Users have raised this issue many times, and we're finally addressing it.
Again, because these are incremental updates, you're not seeing the full picture yet. Another example our planned updates. The dropdown will eventually open a popup that shows profile and chat info, rather than expanding the menu list ' similar to WhatsApp'. This same popup system will be used for private chats, so instead of accidentally opening a private chat by clicking someone's profile, you’ll get a confirmation pop up first.
Another reason we’re moving profile info out of the current space is because that area right under usernames, will soon be used to display the first line of a user’s message in private chats. So the function of that space has changed (or will, once this update is complete). Giving users more indication of whether they want to open and engage with a private chat request. Which again is something that's been asked for by users that we are now implementing.
Please be patient. We're rolling out changes gradually to avoid overwhelming users and to catch bugs early. If you can hold feedback until the full UI is live, that would be really helpful. Of course, once it's all in place, we’d love your input, but for now things are not finished and as we have redesigned chat.
Why are we doing it this way? Because Hiccupx is one person and not a full development team. Testing and releasing in chunks is simply more manageable for us.
We get it, people don't like change. But once everything is live, it will make a lot more sense to users from an UI / UX perspective.
Just be patient folks. Chat is a complex part of the site and we are making small changes so that we can fix any bugs as they arise. Also so that chat continues to be useable while we make updates. We don't want to make all the changes in one go and potentially have a broken and unusable chat application.
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