mmjee
Page Text Header May Be Unnecessary
Currently, a leftover from Piped is the text header that shows what kind of page you are on (Trends, Feed, etc.), which is needed there since there is no other distinction as to where you are located, however on Piped-Material this may be unnecessary, since we have the general header which already shows this for the trends page, and with a few tweaks, could be adapted to fill this role for pretty much any page, thereby restoring precious vertical real estate.
The only thing that could get in the way, is channel and playlist pages, however perhaps something dynamic could be done there, with a side header on wider displays, and a top header on narrower displays (or the may be a much better alternative).
On 8/31/22 17:29, moriel5 wrote:
Currently, a leftover from Piped is the text header that shows what kind of page you are on (Trends, Feed, etc.), which is needed there since there is no other distinction as to where you are located, however on Piped-Material this may be unnecessary, since we have the general header which already shows this for the trends page, and with a few tweaks, could be adapted to fill this role for pretty much any page, thereby restoring precious vertical real estate.
Do you mean the navigation bar is enough to indicate which page you are on? Although that is true, it is not immediately attention capturing and fades into the background too easily.
I have observed that even though this supposedly sacrifices the very valuable vertical real estate, it makes life easier for less technologically educated users.
The only thing that could get in the way, is channel and playlist pages, however perhaps something dynamic could be done there, with a side header on wider displays, and a top header on narrower displays (or the may be a much better alternative).
You have to explicitly navigate to them, so they are even less of a problem.
Regards,
That is certainly true, and I have also noticed that, however I had also seen, that aside from channels and playlists, that the current situation simply has two options they make each other redundant, with the text header, while immediately capturing attention, the moment you scroll it is no longer visible, while the top header is.
On 9/1/22 14:30, moriel5 wrote:
That is certainly true, and I have also noticed that, however I had also seen, that aside from channels and playlists, that the current situation simply has two options they make each other redundant, with the text header, while immediately capturing attention, the moment you scroll it is no longer visible, while the top header is.
They are not redundant, because you already know what page you are on by the time you are scrolling down. I'm willing to bet that in the history of the world, none has scrolled down without realizing what page he/she is on and then looked up at the navigation bar to determine the page.
-- Regards,
@mmjee Actually, forgetting the page one after scrolling is on its very common, and this it especially true in a world where browser tabs exist.
People could scroll, switch to another tab, return after some time to the Piped-Material tab, and not remember what page they are on, which would be quite annoying if they do not want to lose their place on the page, but not remember they at the time (such as scrolling through their feed trying to find a specific video).