5 years ago PeterVandivier

As a followup to “Custom question room avatars”, I would like to see roomicons on the main list view. Seeing the icons in the nav bar is great and all, but I don’t immediately know what they mean. Adding roomicons to the list view would help me visually associate recent posts with the corresponding nav bar indicator. The experience of clicking on the orange numbered circle would go from seeing which room you land in by surprise to a more intentional (and thus satisfying) click.

It’s worth mentioning that the nav bar icons do currently contain the title of the parent post in hover-over alt text. However the delay in rendering this results in a less satisfying experience. Why wait for the on-hover action to see what I’d see anyway if I just clicked on it?

By way of very rough mockup - please see below (although I expect putting the icons on the left would make more sense)

HT_jspaint

Top Answer
5 years ago Jack Douglas

I’ve come to think this would be confusing for new users, and not necessarily that helpful for old users, so we are marking this wont-fix

5 years
Adám replying to Jack Douglas — Tuesday, 11th Feb 2020 14:18

Pushing over is probably better, since then it could be kept open without covering other UI.

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Jack Douglas replying to Adám — Tuesday, 11th Feb 2020 12:03

So it would pop out and overlay the chat panel like the W10 start menu? Or push everything over like the “Microsoft 365 admin center” and various other similar online sidebars?

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Adám — Monday, 10th Feb 2020 23:26

@Jack Would it be possible to have a button to expand the right bar to include the titles, similar to how the Windows 10 start menu has a ≡ to reveal icon labels?

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PeterVandivier replying to Monica — Wednesday, 15th Jan 2020 07:14
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Monica replying to PeterVandivier — Wednesday, 15th Jan 2020 02:36

I’m hoping you’re joking, and the message following this one that for me renders as just a box was meant to be an emoji or something. 😃

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PeterVandivier — Tuesday, 14th Jan 2020 15:26

🤪

PeterVandivier replying to Monica — Tuesday, 14th Jan 2020 15:25

what about a comprimise? center justify the image and wrap the title text around?

Monica — Tuesday, 14th Jan 2020 15:22

I would put the icons to the far right, like answerer gravatars. Don’t put them on the left; people read from left to right (in this language 😃 ) and we shouldn’t add that speed bump before people have even read the question title.

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PeterVandivier — Tuesday, 14th Jan 2020 13:52
PeterVandivier — Tuesday, 14th Jan 2020 13:51

work around eff tee dubya

Jack Douglas — Tuesday, 14th Jan 2020 13:49

😃 😃 😃

Jack Douglas — Tuesday, 14th Jan 2020 13:49

~with~ ~space~ ~borks~ ~:-(~

Jack Douglas — Tuesday, 14th Jan 2020 13:49

with space borks 😦

Jack Douglas replying to PeterVandivier — Tuesday, 14th Jan 2020 13:48

add more ~

PeterVandivier — Tuesday, 14th Jan 2020 13:45

~with space borks :-(~

PeterVandivier — Tuesday, 14th Jan 2020 13:44

YAYY

PeterVandivier — Tuesday, 14th Jan 2020 13:44

~testing~ testing

PeterVandivier — Tuesday, 14th Jan 2020 13:43

noice!

Jack Douglas — Tuesday, 14th Jan 2020 13:43
Jack Douglas replying to PeterVandivier — Tuesday, 14th Jan 2020 13:42

no html is supported but there is subscript via ~subscript~

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PeterVandivier — Tuesday, 14th Jan 2020 13:05

was trying to minify the jspaint text

PeterVandivier — Tuesday, 14th Jan 2020 13:05

related: is <sub></sub> or some markdown equivalent supported?

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