This is mostly because it’s actually pretty annoying to get exactly even numbers of icons in each row. I agree it looks pretty silly but it’s a somewhat annoying design challenge to get it looking better.
Why not just leave that spot empty, though? Or rather, the right-most spot in the second row.
The current implementation, where reaction icons aren’t deduplicated, might (debatably) look prettier in some sense, but it has other weird consequences. Like this and this:
Update: EDIT: Several reactions appear to be missing in grid view: “Thanks”, “Changed my Mind”, and “Empathy”.
In the first place, I made my original bug report because I couldn’t find the Thanks reaction, looked through all the reactions one by one, and thus noticed the doubled Thumbs Up reactions. I eventually decided I’d hallucinated there being a Thanks reaction, or that it was only available on the EA Forum—but I just noticed that it’s still available, it’s just missing in grid view.
No, if you look you’ll notice that the top row of the palette view is the same as the top row of the list view, and the second row of the palete-view is the same as the bottom row of the list view. The specific lines of code were re-used.
The actual historical process was: Jim constructed the List View first, then I spent a bunch of time experimenting with different combinations of list and palette views, then afterwards made a couple incremental changes for the List view that accidentally messed up the palette view. (I did spent, like, hours, trying to get the palette view to work, visually, which included inventing new emojis. It was hard because each line was trying to have a consistent theme, as well as the whole thing fitting in to a grid)
But yeah it does look like the “thanks” emoji got dropped by accident from the palette view and it does just totally solve the display problem to have it replace the thumbs-up.
Apologies. After posting my original comment I noticed myself what you mention in your first paragraph, realized that my initial annoyance was obviously unwarranted, and thus edited my original comment before I even saw your reply.
Anyway, see my edited comment above: I found at least three reactions that are missing in the grid view.
(It’s deliberate that there is one thumbs up in the top row and 2 in the bottom row of the list-view, because it seemed actually important to give people immediate access to the thumbs-up. Thumbs down felt vaguely important to give people overall but not important to put front-and-center)
That justification makes sense. Though to make the search behavior less weird, it would be good if the search results a) were deduplicated, and maybe b) didn’t display the horizontal divider bars for empty sections.
This is mostly because it’s actually pretty annoying to get exactly even numbers of icons in each row. I agree it looks pretty silly but it’s a somewhat annoying design challenge to get it looking better.
Why not just leave that spot empty, though? Or rather, the right-most spot in the second row.
The current implementation, where reaction icons aren’t deduplicated, might (debatably) look prettier in some sense, but it has other weird consequences. Like this and this:
Update: EDIT: Several reactions appear to be missing in grid view: “Thanks”, “Changed my Mind”, and “Empathy”.
In the first place, I made my original bug report because I couldn’t find the Thanks reaction, looked through all the reactions one by one, and thus noticed the doubled Thumbs Up reactions. I eventually decided I’d hallucinated there being a Thanks reaction, or that it was only available on the EA Forum—but I just noticed that it’s still available, it’s just missing in grid view.
No, if you look you’ll notice that the top row of the palette view is the same as the top row of the list view, and the second row of the palete-view is the same as the bottom row of the list view. The specific lines of code were re-used.
The actual historical process was: Jim constructed the List View first, then I spent a bunch of time experimenting with different combinations of list and palette views, then afterwards made a couple incremental changes for the List view that accidentally messed up the palette view. (I did spent, like, hours, trying to get the palette view to work, visually, which included inventing new emojis. It was hard because each line was trying to have a consistent theme, as well as the whole thing fitting in to a grid)
But yeah it does look like the “thanks” emoji got dropped by accident from the palette view and it does just totally solve the display problem to have it replace the thumbs-up.
Apologies. After posting my original comment I noticed myself what you mention in your first paragraph, realized that my initial annoyance was obviously unwarranted, and thus edited my original comment before I even saw your reply.
Anyway, see my edited comment above: I found at least three reactions that are missing in the grid view.
(It’s deliberate that there is one thumbs up in the top row and 2 in the bottom row of the list-view, because it seemed actually important to give people immediate access to the thumbs-up. Thumbs down felt vaguely important to give people overall but not important to put front-and-center)
That justification makes sense. Though to make the search behavior less weird, it would be good if the search results a) were deduplicated, and maybe b) didn’t display the horizontal divider bars for empty sections.