UX Improvements

[cedricium]

u/FloatyFish came in clutch with suggestions on how to improve Unearth's UX. Below is the list they gave me, might break these into individual tickets in the future.

• Tagging - SEE Tag Suggestions in "Edit Tags" Modal #5
  • Autocomplete tags when adding them if possible.
  • When the tag dialog is open, have a few of the most recent tags in a section below the main tagging area, users can click on them to add them.
• Scrollbar (vertical) doesn't seem to actually scroll if you drag it in the home section, but if you scroll using the scroll wheel on the mouse it'll scroll.
• Personally, I would have the trashcans for tags greyed out instead of hidden. This will help with discoverability. However, redditors are generally more tech savvy and may overlook that.
• When hovering over subreddits, have some sort of visual indicator. Text change is too subtle.
  • Reuse the hover effect that shows when hovering over the link/delete/tag buttons
• When viewing a post or a comment, can we see when it was made?
• Total # of saved comments, saved posts, or both may be a nice feature to have
• Custom scrollbars similar to those that are native on Macs (checkout simplebar or react-custom-scrollbars on npm)
• Searchbar on the homescreen - SEE Ability to Search Saved Things #7 ([UX Improvement] Search! #16)
• Have sorting on homepage/comments (start with chronological). ([UX Improvement] Add sorting dropdown to all pages #15)
• Showing the last time you synced would be helpful since there is currently no autosync. ([UX Improvement] Show last sync time when hovering Sync Button #14)
• Could use a Post category under filters. ([UX Improvement] Add Posts filter #13)

[Logan1x]

Have sorting on homepage/comments (start with chronological).

Are you talking about most recent to first?

[cedricium]

most recent to first

@Logan1x yes that's correct. Due to the SQL query we use to append tags to saved things on the backend, the ordering of things is seemingly broken/random. We would want saved things to always be in reverse chronological order (most recent to oldest).