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why is the create comment button at the top? (mander.xyz)
submitted 10 months ago by blackbrook@mander.xyz to c/thunder_app@lemmy.world
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Of the many Lemmy clients I've tried, Thunder is the one I like the best, but the one place I have nits is the creating a comment experience.

After typing the comment you have close you keyboard, to have any hope of the create button being visible (if your comment is really short) and then scroll all the way back up to the top. Isn't the bottom the obviously better place for this button?

Even worse, if in trying to scroll the screen, you accidentally hit the little horizontal bar at the top, you just lose your comment.

Finally, it seems to always lose my place in the thread and put me back at the top after entering a comment.

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[-] eager_eagle@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

True. What annoys me the most in apps in general (Jerboa included) is the practice of losing your draft at the minor deviation of usual workflow. You gave the example of hitting the top bar, but the same happens when there's a connection issue or if the app crashes or is closed by the OS to manage memory.

[-] everett@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago

It sounds a little extreme but I recommend a self-keylogging app. The OS doesn't let them read password fields, you can generally exclude entire apps you don't want logged, and you can set how long the app holds onto your logs. Look for one that doesn't request internet permissions, of course.

[-] darklightxi@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

There is an open PR for this feature courtesy of @michamo! https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/pull/700

It's still a WIP so there's no expected release date yet (but should be within the next couple of releases)

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 5 points 10 months ago

The comment UI is being reworked to match the current post UI in the next set of nightlys

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

The post UI appears to have the create post button at the top also, and have that same potential to lose your text by accidentally catching that bar when swiping to try to scroll down.

[-] eatham@aussie.zone 1 points 10 months ago

Use the fab reply function

[-] BinarySystem@partizle.com 1 points 10 months ago

Create a comment view has been reworked and is in the codebase though there are still improvements to be made.

With the new create comment view, the create button is on the top bar so it's always accessible. Touching the top bar will not close the create comment dialogue either.

There is still the issue of a comment draft not persisting and your place in thread being lost after creating a comment. The latter being a particularly annoying user experience for myself. I'm hoping one of us will be able to address that soon. A few of us haven't had a lot of time to work on Thunder lately, myself included :(

[-] blackbrook@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

Time's always a problem, but I'm happy it's on the radar!

Would it be possible to do the thing in the Play store that some apps do where we could opt into the "beta program" and get nightly builds? (If having us test it would be helpful...)

[-] darklightxi@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

Hey! As mentioned on my recent post, I'll try to get some pre-releases/nightlies on GitHub within the next couple of days. Unfortunately, setting up the beta program on Google Play will take longer and is not something that I am actively working on at the moment, but I do want that to be a thing in the future (long term)

[-] BinarySystem@partizle.com 1 points 10 months ago

You would have to ask @darklightxi@lemmy.world regarding the play store beta thing.

But we have early builds that get uploaded to IzzyOnDroid. You can also get them directly from GitHub.

The last release was 2 weeks ago unfortunately due to irl stuff. But the hope is to have a new nightly soon :)

this post was submitted on 28 Aug 2023
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