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Steemhunt browser extension
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more intuitive design may be needed #2

Open economicstudio opened 5 years ago

economicstudio commented 5 years ago

After the installing the extension, all I can see when I click the extension was the following:

Probably most users expect that clicking "Steemhunt" will direct them to the page that the extension should actually show (as explained in https://steemit.com/steemhunt/@steemhunt/introducing-steemhunt-chrome-extension-and-new-airdrop-or-sponsor-report-22). But it's just redirected to the google web store page.

While this itself might be the default behavior of chrome-extension's first menu (unless customized), it doesn't contain any meaningful information about how to actually use this extension.

It took me quite a time to find out how to use the extension after googling and found this: https://steemit.com/steemhunt/@steemhunt/introducing-steemhunt-chrome-extension-and-new-airdrop-or-sponsor-report-22

So, it seems that I have to open a new tab manually, which is quite counter intuitive than click some menu on the extension itself. At least both should work.

Overall, the extension should work much more intuitively. How many people can figure out how to use this extension without googling the instruction? Probably not many.

There should be a menu on the extension itself that redirects the page to the page it intends to show. Of course, it's much better if it's the first menu (instead of redirecting to the google store page) or just the extension icon itself should work what it should.

For instance, this is what a user gets after clicking steem keychain extension icon.

Steemit id setting may be done this way. If it's unset yet, popup this kind of window to enter the id, and if it's already set, just show the page.

ps. There seems a problem on the extension itself now, as I reported in https://github.com/Steemhunt/browser-extension/issues/1

sydneyitguy commented 5 years ago

Thanks for creating the first issue :) Will improve it!

economicstudio commented 5 years ago

@sydneyitguy Thank you! I also made a Utopian post about this: https://steemit.com/utopian-io/@blockchainstudio/steemhunt-intuitive-chrome-extension-design