Samuel
@samuel.fm
I should revive Dan's experiment to kill the floating "load more" button
12 8 167 12 8 167Samueladded myself back to the feature gate and it's like a breath of fresh air. need this so bad
2 35Samuelhmm, I don’t love the home button having an unclearable dot if you use Discover as your main feed… maybe that needs some thought
1 27Samuelok here’s my solution for what to do about the FAB:
1. only get rid of the button in the root screens - home+your profile
2. only show the dot on the home tab if you’re currently on the home tab
3. make the FAB smaller and less extremely ugly on the rest of the screens
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haileynooooooooo
1 7haileymake the fab smaller and remove the icon yes. but don’t get rid of the fab.
on android it’s the only way to scroll to top. and i think it’s useful even on ios because i don’t want to move my hand up there to scroll to top
1 14Samuelbut if we’re only removing it on the root tabs, you can just press the tab buttons no?
1 4haileyidk double tapping the home icon to me isn’t super intuitive. particularly if you don’t know it’s a common ios design thing
4 9Samuelit’s not a double tap tho is it? it’s a single tap, it performs exactly the same function
for comparison, this is how twitter does it
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midwest emo fanyou should copy twitter again
1 13midwest emo fanactually no seriously this is pretty good
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eliza hamiltoni think i like this better actually its more informative about you receiving new posts from specific people too.
1 3Samuelya unfortunately we can’t do this. we’d need more feedgen APIs
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futur 🔹blue dot on home icon is a pretty common affordance for that reason I think
personally I've never used the fab because tab bar is right there
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Mike 🍁
Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦hmm… floating… action… button?
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Emily HuntDouble tapping? If I'm on the home tab and tap once it goes to top, and it feels intuitive
The round scroll to top thing is obtrusive when I'm doing a long scroll, would honestly love to see it go 👀
1Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦So like, where would it still show up? Because when you're deeper in the nav hierarchy like inside a thread, then there's no button anyway, right?
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Pooh SticksI don't know about Android but on iPhone the FAB is doing two things synchronously...
1 - Scroll to top of content
2 - Load new content
The iOS way to do 1 is to tap the screen at the top... above the notch... and this works in bsky as expected.
So why not extend that to double tap for more?
1 1Samueltapping the butterfly already does that
1 1 2Pooh Stickshahahahahhah!
Excellent.
1 1Pooh SticksSo just move FAB to an option?
1 1SamuelI hate maintaining one billion terrible options for people that refuse to accept change even if the ui sucks sorry
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mewfwiw people adapt. Discord proves this anytime they do a (good) redesign and people whine for a week before they forget about how it used to be
2 3Pooh SticksI mean... yeah. So just delete? Why do people love it?
We are in this liminal ux space where some folk have realised that the controls should be by the thumbs and some still default to the top of screen. iOS has started to push stuff down but it's still a building site with lawyers in the JCBs.
1 1Pooh SticksSo we get these weird things where the OS does something badly for everyone and different apps do it differently bad for their users. People get attached to both bad takes.
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Luis CrespoWhat is holding the feature back? Are you evaluating its usability?
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GraceI didn’t know that button existed until Dan’s post
1 6Grace“you are now aware of your tongue” but for bsky ux
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dameoh no this made me become aware of my nose in the periphery of my vision again... gonna be stuck thinking about it for an hour at least
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totallynotsethyou are now breathing manually
1 5Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦Rip, I suffocated
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Alessio Maffeis
Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦Nooo this is pure enshittification
1 1Alessio MaffeisHow is it worse than the circular one with the literal (not my words) "bird shit" on it? :D
This one also can also show you some highlighted posters.
Either way, would be good to have an option to disable it in the settings.
1 2Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦The one on Twitter at least, it feels like it's pushing me to "consume" more, reminding me that there's more, more, to keep me in the app so that the numbers go up
1 1Alessio MaffeisGot it. I was purely talking about the UI, not the logic.
One thing I would like to have in a client tho it’s loading new posts above, keeping the current position. That would allow you to continuously scroll upwards to see newer posts.
1 1Alessio MaffeisAutomatically scrolling to top when new stuff is loaded is easier to implement and get right, but leads to losing context and a weird sawtooth scrolling pattern that I find exhausting.
1 2Kuba Suder 🇵🇱🇺🇦Yeah, I've seen people asking for this sometimes, though it doesn't bother me much personally
1eliza hamiltonwhats the thought process for replacing it, curious (i assume integrating it into the home button)?
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cyle gageimo it should be a “new posts” pill button that only shows up when there are new posts, because that’s its utility 👀
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Andy Bellregardless of how it’s improved, I think making it possible to remove it in settings will be very well received
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Antonio Pedro ☕sounds like an easy experiment to set up..........
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