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Alternative views for custom feeds
The first version of the custom feeds exploration view, using a secondary sidebar, seems too unbalanced:
We can move the main area to the left recovering some space from the sidebar, but the effect remains the same, especially on large screens:
The problem with the current solution is that feeds are not visible at all, and this is a shame since they are a powerful feature.
We have at least two more options:
- Let the user navigate a sub-menu inside the same sidebar, collapsing the first one in a narrow column:
The main problem of this solution is that this specific view should be the initial one, so the user would start with the main menu collapsed, and this is a poor UI/UX. To solve that, we could put on the main menu two items: "Main feed" and "Custom feeds".
- An alternative solution is to move the secondary nav to the right, with the same width or slightly narrower than the first, centering the main block:
The main problem of this solution is that the central block would move to the right when changing section (e.g. notification, messages, etc), giving an annoying "bouncing" feeling; the solution could be to always keep a secondary "ghost" column, to be used possibly in other contexts, for example to display the note details (liked and zapped by, nevent, etc).