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Hello folks,
I am actually quite digging the redesign, especially the WYSIWYG text editor. The only thing I'm not overly fond of is the subreddit select dropdown.
It just doesn't display enough information to be satisfying to me. I do not follow many subreddits (~8), and only have two favourites, but whenever I click that dropdown my mouse has to move halfway down my monitor in order to click something I want to click. That feels inefficient, especially when the majority of my subreddits used to appear on the ribbon of the header before, and were literally a click away. I've proposed a couple of things:
- Move favourites to the top. Whenever I access reddit, if I'm not automatically navigating straight to the subreddit I want, my first stop is that dropdown, then one of my favourites. If I was on my main homepage, I was already viewing "Home" which is the first option.
- Densify the dropdown. Just put more information in less space. Yes, that probably irks your design brains, but I feel like that page element just needs to be more efficient with its use of space. Function should somewhat trump design there.
- Maybe more the Reddit Feeds stuff to another dropdown? That gets it out of my subreddit dropdown.
- If it is going to stay maybe automatically focus on the filter text box on click of the dropdown so that I can type without needing a second click.
Thanks for all you do, folks!
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