iHub - UX Feedback

[MrMike241]

I was proposing reactions for general posts, but I suggested it during the time that the thumb 👍 was replaced with the heart ❤. Now that the thumb has returned 👍, I care less about alternate reactions to general posts. I wasn't really excited about the prospect of 🤡💩, etc. reactions, but I included them for consideration and discussion because if any emoji could be added, those would certainly be used. So IHub options would be to choose the set of acceptable reactions, allow only the thumb, or open it up to any reaction. Because IHub has moved toward minimal censorship, I was guessing that you would open it up to any reaction. It's more of an idea for discussion than a request. Of course, that's not manageable in the list view / classic view, so maybe the caveat is that everything is a thumb in list view until you open the messages. In thread view / full view, everything is possible, if it is approved by IHub itself.

I hadn't considered the need for an emoji tracker, because I add emojis with my tablet's on screen keyboard, which includes the emoji tracker. But perhaps that would be helpful for other devices.

BTW, you may have noticed that I think of Classic View and Full View as List View and Thread View. I like both and I recognize that a lot of thought and effort has gone into the Full View. My feedback is that it needs some work in identifying which posts have been read, and out of order reading. When replying from Full View, I like that it shows where in the thread you are replying, but it needs to be better highlighted. At first I found that confusing but now I see what you're doing there. I suggest adding the ability to quickly choose another part of the thread to reply to, and once selected, a bigger button at the top to switch to the full editor.

As I wrote this I thought that it would also be nice to be viewing a single message in Classic View, and be able to display the entire thread that pops out in a thread view reply. That might be the best of both worlds.