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Suggestion -- Tap comment to collapse and pop-out image viewer (lemmy.ca)
submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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With the recent change to allow swiping for actions this checks almost every box I have for general usability. Just two things come to mind:

  1. It would be nice to be able to tap a comment to collapse and hold to show menu when swipes are enabled so it's a bit faster to browse comments.
  2. The ability to pop out an image (that can be swiped away, ideally) would be nice since clicking an image halfway down the page often leads to having to scroll down to see the whole thing.

Relatively minor things and doesn't break the experience at all, but would help usability just a touch.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Both are relatively easy to implement so I can see if I can add them for the next release.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Thanks for the response, and agree, they would definitely need to be settings that are togglable since they affect important parts of behaviour.

Just thought I'd suggest since they've been on my mind, but certainly not deal-breakers and I understand if you don't want to add additional settings!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I thought of another idea for the tap to fullscreen image. I think it might actually make sense as a long press action perhaps? That way you don't have to choose between the two behaviors. I'll add it in the next update and you can try it out.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

That's a cool idea and slightly iOS-esque, happy to try, of course! Thanks :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There's a couple small bugs with the long press to view feature:

  • Doesn't mark the post as read
  • When the image is dismissed it flashes up briefly full screen after the animation plays

I think it would be nice to have a toggle to make the long press behaviour on single tap, it's just a bit slower to have to hold

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When the image is dismissed it flashes up briefly full screen after the animation plays

I fixed it woohoo. That was so annoying to fix :x. Dammit Android.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

When the image is dismissed it flashes up briefly full screen after the animation plays

I FINALLY REPRODUCED THIS.

I am kind of baffled why though. I can only reproduce this bug if gesture navigation is off. &^$%$#&^@

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

After more testing it has something to do with the 3 buttons at the bottom + the navigation drawer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doesn’t mark the post as read Will do

When the image is dismissed it flashes up briefly full screen after the animation plays I can't reproduce this on any of the 5 test devices I have. What version of Android are you running?

I think it would be nice to have a toggle to make the long press behaviour on single tap, it’s just a bit slower to have to hold I can add the setting.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't reproduce this on any of the 5 test devices I have. What version of Android are you running

Android 12 on a OnePlus 7

I'm in pure black dark mode if that matters

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

That device isn't even that old so that is very odd. For context one of my test devices is a motorola G5+ from 2017. I wonder if it's an issue with oxygen os.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm going to add the tap comment to collapse as a setting, but you should know that you can currently collapse comments by tapping anywhere in the comment header (aside from the author's name).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Yep, and I make use of it. It would just be marginally more convenient to be able to collapse say a long comment after I've read it without having to scroll back up.