customisable top bar options.

[Lord Nicoll]

Having played around with the beta site for a few hours and now this site, I would like to see it made possible to remove some icons from the bar at the top, idk what it's called, the one with the different sections, but it's a complete cluster fuck and unusable, plus it's more or less redundant for a few of them. I would assume this is hard to do so won't get done? Just something to consider for the next update, I've never been a fan though of too much customisation, it's just there are a lot of things there I will neevr use so it'd be nice to be able to make it less cluttered.

[Princess Luna]

Indeed it is pretty fine on my ultrawide but on the 1366x768p laptop that bar looks quite polluted/crowded... If I could customized as in throw the rarely used entries inside the "more" would be nice.

[Lord Nicoll]

17 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Indeed it is pretty fine on my ultrawide but on the 1366x768p laptop that bar looks quite polluted/crowded... If I could customized as in throw the rarely used entries inside the "more" would be nice.

On my 1080p monitor it isn't cround, the icons just aren't where they used to be and I do thing by muscle memory so it's annoying to have to my brain to find the icon. 

[lvh1]

Yeah 11 items is way too much, and most of them are utterly useless for me. "community standards" especially, there's no reason to have it as the second most important item there since most people will open it once, see what it is about and never open it again. Floatplane on the other hand is pretty important, yet it is the last item in the list where not many people will notice it.

Staff/blogs/gallery/downloads/store all seem pretty useless, does anyone actually use those more than once to check out what they are?

[Princess Luna]

Just now, Lord Nicoll said:

On my 1080p monitor it isn't cround, the icons just aren't where they used to be and I do thing by muscle memory so it's annoying to have to my brain to find the icon. 

For what is worth the UI is still pretty close to the old one, this update wasn't like Google that goes and breaks YouTube EVERY SINGLE TIME

 

But I really am all in favour to add as much customization as possible, I know all involves a great deal of hassle conding the website but worth every big when adds value to the user experience.

[EunSoo]

I agree. It would be very nice to be able to customize it. So I would have a 'Forums' tab, 'Floatplane Club' tab and then tabs directly to my Activities on the nav bar. And everything else in a more tab. Very useful

[colonel_mortis]

Sorry, customisation just isn't possible.

Some of the less used items have been moved to the more dropdown though, which should alleviate a lot of your concerns.

23 hours ago, Lord Nicoll said:

On my 1080p monitor it isn't cround, the icons just aren't where they used to be and I do thing by muscle memory so it's annoying to have to my brain to find the icon. 

You'll relearn the muscle memory fairly soon.

23 hours ago, lvh1 said:

Yeah 11 items is way too much, and most of them are utterly useless for me. "community standards" especially, there's no reason to have it as the second most important item there since most people will open it once, see what it is about and never open it again. Floatplane on the other hand is pretty important, yet it is the last item in the list where not many people will notice it.

Staff/blogs/gallery/downloads/store all seem pretty useless, does anyone actually use those more than once to check out what they are?

Community Standards is important in that it should be easy for users to find and obvious to the new users. It has been in the nav bar for a while, and the plan is for it to stay.

Floatplane (which is only visible to people who can access it) is accessible from the forum index too, and, being at the end of the nav bar, isn't particularly hard to find.

[Lord Nicoll]

1 hour ago, colonel_mortis said:

Sorry, customisation just isn't possible.

Some of the less used items have been moved to the more dropdown though, which should alleviate a lot of your concerns.

You'll relearn the muscle memory fairly soon.

Community Standards is important in that it should be easy for users to find and obvious to the new users. It has been in the nav bar for a while, and the plan is for it to stay.

Floatplane (which is only visible to people who can access it) is accessible from the forum index too, and, being at the end of the nav bar, isn't particularly hard to find.

Thanks man, that's a good bit better, I've never been a fan of UI changes for the sake of changes, so I hope these changes are part of a broader approach, it'd be sad if it wasn't. 

[colonel_mortis]

Just now, Lord Nicoll said:

Thanks man, that's a good bit better, I've never been a fan of UI changes for the sake of changes, so I hope these changes are part of a broader approach, it'd be sad if it wasn't. 

The desktop nav was changed to improve discoverability, because the previous nav hid away a lot of options that a lot of people never found (such as activity feeds), and the mobile nav was changed to improve usability.

[Lord Nicoll]

4 minutes ago, colonel_mortis said:

The desktop nav was changed to improve discoverability, because the previous nav hid away a lot of options that a lot of people never found (such as activity feeds), and the mobile nav was changed to improve usability.

I tried using an ad blocker to remove some more ones I didn't like, it didn't work out too well haha, but was actually usable.