Agreed. The reactions also feel inconsistent with the existing voting options. I’d suggest something more like this:
I’d also suggest that the react-add icon should have a plus somewhere on it. eg, compare discord’s:
slack:
and unlike my screenshot, maybe it would be best to put the add-react at the end, rather than the beginning, of the list of reacts. I’d also put just a little more spacing between react types.
After arguing a bunch with Ruby and habryka, I’m currently leaning towards a PR that keeps the reacts in the bottom-right but moves the add-react icon over there.
I agree the icon should have a + button, will work on that.
this has the interesting effect of putting an active element in EVERY corner of the comment—UL has collapse and voting, UR has the vertical dots for subscribe/report, LL has reply, and LR has react. This is madness, but may also be brilliant.
how about something not in the bottom right? bottom right significantly changes the eye movement pattern needed to read a comment. eg, instead, how about:
That was my preference, Ruby and Oli didn’t like it because of too much forced visual clutter and were more confident that people would learn to look in the bottom-right. I weakly disagreed but if a bunch of people prefer it on the left I may restructure it a bit.
The add-react-button and reacts-added should be together. It’s counterintuitive to push a button in one place and have the result appear somewhere that might be off-screen on a long enough comment.
I think it makes sense for all the metadata about a post to stay together. Who wrote it, when they posted it, whether others upvoted it, and what reacts it got are all metadata. I think any argument for putting the reacts at the bottom could be applied to also putting vote scores at the bottom as well.
Serious question that I’m surprised I’d never asked before: why are the vote and agree/disagree scores at the top of the post, instead of elsewhere?
It makes sense for the scores to be there because you might use that as data to determine whether or not to read the comment. It would probably encourage better behavior for the votes themselves to be at the bottom of the comment—but as you note, probably the button and the thing it changes should be together.
Agreed. The reactions also feel inconsistent with the existing voting options. I’d suggest something more like this:
I’d also suggest that the react-add icon should have a plus somewhere on it. eg, compare discord’s:
slack:
and unlike my screenshot, maybe it would be best to put the add-react at the end, rather than the beginning, of the list of reacts. I’d also put just a little more spacing between react types.
After arguing a bunch with Ruby and habryka, I’m currently leaning towards a PR that keeps the reacts in the bottom-right but moves the add-react icon over there.
I agree the icon should have a + button, will work on that.
this has the interesting effect of putting an active element in EVERY corner of the comment—UL has collapse and voting, UR has the vertical dots for subscribe/report, LL has reply, and LR has react. This is madness, but may also be brilliant.
how about something not in the bottom right? bottom right significantly changes the eye movement pattern needed to read a comment. eg, instead, how about:
css to achieve this:
That was my preference, Ruby and Oli didn’t like it because of too much forced visual clutter and were more confident that people would learn to look in the bottom-right. I weakly disagreed but if a bunch of people prefer it on the left I may restructure it a bit.
I think I changed my mind on this, FWIW, after playing around more in this thread. I think bottom-left is indeed better.
I like this much better for 2 reasons:
The add-react-button and reacts-added should be together. It’s counterintuitive to push a button in one place and have the result appear somewhere that might be off-screen on a long enough comment.
I think it makes sense for all the metadata about a post to stay together. Who wrote it, when they posted it, whether others upvoted it, and what reacts it got are all metadata. I think any argument for putting the reacts at the bottom could be applied to also putting vote scores at the bottom as well.
Serious question that I’m surprised I’d never asked before: why are the vote and agree/disagree scores at the top of the post, instead of elsewhere?
Enthusiastic agreement on this! I think votes should be at the bottom, and that it would make sense to move them together!
It makes sense for the scores to be there because you might use that as data to determine whether or not to read the comment. It would probably encourage better behavior for the votes themselves to be at the bottom of the comment—but as you note, probably the button and the thing it changes should be together.