#9

I could understand their point of view of a single change they’d made involved standard UI, but they’re just making up hidden features with no indication they exist. Never seen another website with swipable panels and no chrome at all when they’re hidden. Nightmare from an accessibility perspective.

#10

i don’t know anything about web design but someone in that thread pointed out the silliness of making one motion to bring up notifications and a completely different motion to get out of them and how clunky that is, which is true. i keep trying to hit my avatar again to get rid of the sidebar and then remembering it’s not there.

i did enjoy their doubling down when people starting going “what the fuck, why would i not want to see my notifications” though - “oh, erm, actually, uh, checking notifications too much is actually very unhealthy! you’re all addicts and this will help your online behaviour. yes, that’ll do…”

(heavily paraphrased obviously)

#11

Pull in from the right or left of the screen

#12

Aye, I’ve since sussed that I get a menu if I swipe left to right from the edge of the screen, through the anchor logo. Doesn’t happen for the rest of the lower part of the page, though. Don’t mind it.

Having said that, it’s inconsistent. Tapping on the anchor logo takes you to a page instead of giving you the sliding menu. Whereas tapping on your avatar on the to right and swiping right to left through the avatar give you the same sliding menu of personal notifications.

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#13

take it back now y’all

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#14

Still despising this. Icing on the cake is when it slides out and I press Desktop View all in the same go. Die.

#15

Still hate this. A lot.

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#16

keep trying to like posts on mobile and bringing the menu up instead. likewise with trying to reply and bringing up the menu from the right

#17

I’m just going to stop liking posts, Ic.

That’ll show them.

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#18

Becoming Marckee is not a solution to this problem!

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#19

This has randomly started to affect me in the last 24 hours. Please can we make it stop. :pray:

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#20

I can’t really make this happen at all guys so I’m wondering if it’s down to phone brands or it’s just a user thing - basically I reckon raising a request in the UX side of Discourse to move the likes button might work.

So I guess the questions to all of you suffering - @barleysugar @icarus-smicarus @sadpunk @laelfy @colinzealuk @japes @sheeldz - would be:

  1. Phone make and model
  2. Are you right or left handed
  3. Are you liking one handed? e.g. are you holding the phone in your left hand and just using your thumb?

Basically I’ve tried a bunch of times and when I tap to like in mobile I never see the left menu pop out. I can only get it by quite deliberately dragging on the left into the centre.

FWIW I don’t like these new slide out menus at all but I don’t get them accidentally appearing.

#21

I don’t seem to be accidentally getting the menu slide out anymore since you said this but i might just be imagining it. I’m tapping on the left side of my phone screen (which used to make it slide out) and it’s not appearing. They might have fixed it or when I’m actually concentrating I’m more focused with my tapping? I need more time to assess whether it’s fixed.

Samsung Galaxy S8
Right handed
Using thumb

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#22

Will try and keep an eye on when it happens. I don’t use my phone consistently - switch between hands and thumbs all the time and it doesn’t happen all the time for me. Chrome on Google Pixel and Google Pixel 3.

I would guess that it’s likely to affect those with smaller screens more as the touch areas are smaller and so there’s less room for error.

Tbh it’s probably only happened about a dozen times since they added the menu, it’s not a huge problem for me - my main issue is simply that it’s bad UI design to hide elements like this along with the attitude of the Devs to anyone who thinks their changes are for the worse.

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#23

It’s not because of liking things for me, it’s when I swipe from the left to go back. Only started two days ago out of nowhere and happens about 80% of the time I swipe but not always? It’s pretty annoying when you have muscular memory to swipe to go back a page rather than pressing the back button, especially as the back button is auto hidden by the site too.

iPhone SE

#24

Ah! That’s an interesting point about swiping shortcuts. I’ll raise it. Odd that you’re only seeing this now. I wonder if they’ve increased the ‘hot’ area size.

@colinzealuk IMO 12 times is a lot for a bug like this in that timescale

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#25
  • Samsung Galaxy S6 and Google Pixel 2 - happens on both
  • Right handed
  • Yes, usually hold phone in hand (either hand) and use the thumb to hit like.
#26

Actually Theo - just done it twice when trying to quote some text from the beginning of a post. The more I think about it, the more i feel they’ve inadvertently overdone the amount of functionality they’ve tried to cram into gestures.

#27

Samsung Galaxy J3
Right handed
One handed, yeah

doesn’t happen all the time but it’s annoying when it does.

what’s annoying me more atm though is that when i hit my icon to bring up the right side menu with the likes, if i try to swipe it away again and stay on the current thread it usually takes me 2 or 3 goes to successfully swipe the menu back off screen. usually i swipe it back to the right but because i haven’t gone right to the absolute end of the screen, it pops right back up again.

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#28

Well we’ll see what comes of this

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