Okay. So I usually don't really reload the tab immediately when there's a Mastodon update. In part because I expect there's some UX thingy that will be rolled back within a day or two.
If you're on .social I guess you get what I'm getting at. Because wow!
This latest change gives the impression that _everything_ has moved to the wrong place (and somehow it breaks the dark mode?!).
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Could've so easily just left the new post where it was, keeping the simplicity of think->write->post, instead of adding a step think->click->write->post, and put the Custom feeds and hashtags in the newly conquered land on the right hand side. Or was the reasoning that people post too much, too spontaneously and need to have a slight delay to reconsider?
I do like the updated character count, tho.
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Just noticed the changes in the post option access too (moving CW to behind the settings cog) and it feels very much like they didn't really consider the real estate available?
Cluttering some parts and leaving others barren instead of having an even distribution is indeed a choice.
(5/3, sorry, just discovering things while using. should've done a proper test and made a write-up of that instead. maybe next time)
So the search bar moves.
When you start typing in it it's in the 5th column (eh, heh 😬), but when you hit that sweet, sweet enter and execute the search it moves to column 4.
An interesting choice, highlighting the commitment to consistency.
@Mabande If you want to leave some feedback, there's a new forum at https://community.joinmastodon.org/
The strangest thing is they've put a step between posting, by having a CTA (button) popping out the New post entry field into a floater (derogatory).
I guess it's because they wanted to make space for under utilized functions like the Custom Feeds and Followed Hashtags, but it's just weird (also derogatory) when they've created a whole new piece of real estate on the right hand side just to have a single search bar there.
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