aeharding
FR: Allow submitting content from ... menu on posts screen
Hi there. Let me begin by saying I love Voyager and am very appreciative that I have such a nice UI for Lemmy on my mobile. I have just one request for how it handles submitting posts.
Actually for a long time I thought it didn't have the feature to submit posts at all because I couldn't find it. It wasn't until I read in the release notes that it had this feature that I had to go digging around everywhere to find it. It took me a couple weeks of keeping my eyes peeled to find it in the community page.
I gave doing it this way a chance, but compared to the way some of the other apps do it, I find it rather hard to use. The issue for me is that it the community search is rather hard to use. I will compare the process on your app to the process on liftoff! and hopefully you will see why I like their submission process better.
Process on Voyager:
- Press the Search button
- Select Community search
- Enter search term like "videos"
- Click the sort button
- Sort by "top"
- Sort by "all time"
- Click the community name
- Click the ... menu
- Click Submit Post
- Fill out post details
- Click Post
- Click the sort button on the posts screen
- Choose "hot" again
Process on Liftoff!:
- Press + button on home (equivilent to communities) screen
- Fill out post details (community search is here and sorts by top of all time making it easy to find the right community)
- Click Post
Hopefully that expresses the differences in the experiences.
Hi there! Yeah, there is definitely more friction here but it's implemented the way Apollo used to have it implemented.
The plus button is not straightforward to implement because it would conflict with the customizable hide posts button.
So there's more research needed on this.
Reposting the mockup from my post here.
Voyager can mix the settings and profile page so the middle button on the navbar is a + button.
It is much more important for people to be able to post new content to Lemmy than view their old posts. Voyager shouldn't limit itself to how Apollo did things since there's many things that Apollo still needed improvements in and this is a big one.
Thanks for the amazing work on Voyager!
