FOSSDLE PieFedfeature request.
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I normally do not directly ask for something but boy oh boy I would like topics to appear above communities in the community drop down. Barring that just a drop down that made looking over topics easier.
Are you using the web UI?
What I see is Feeds, then Communities, then Topics, which makes perfect sense to me, and there is a button to Skip (directly down) to either Communities (bypassing Feeds) or to Topics (bypassing both Feeds and Communities) - so you shouldn't need to scroll if you can see and use that link?
web. I don't seem to have the bypass buttons but its the same order. The problem is communities is massive. I know before there was something where looking at topics was not so bad in the past. Pretty much has to be the webui for this as any app it would be a question for the app community.
I went through and tested all of the Themes available on piefed.social - PieFed, High Contrast, Hercules 1982, Irix - 1998, Card Shadow, Fxomt, Trans Pride, HLT-Fruits - calm and soothing, Forest, and Dillo (although this one doesn't even show a list of Communities at all), on my Firefox Android device, and then I went through and did it all again while requesting the Desktop version of the page. I always see those two "Skip to" links, although sometimes the actual Skip to wording itself is greyed out.
Then again, I do not see those on the actual Desktop (Firefox or Chrome), so it looks like they are mobile-only links.
I suggest that it does not matter at all how long the Communities listing is, if you can skip right past all of them down to the Topics section below.
So yeah, it looks like this menu needs a UX tweak specifically for Desktop users.
I would prefer that the topics menu separates from the communities menu. I think the current design is a bit cluttered.
Yeah that would be fine with me. The main thing is there are to many communities so having the topics under it means scrolling past it all. I would not even mind a topics and feeds abut again I would like topics to be at the top and if its kept in the same dropdown communities has to be at the bottom because again. Just too darn big.
Yes, this might be for the best. There are not many top-level menus, we can afford to have another.