[Features] Inline Changelog/Settings Cog/Favorite Button Enchancement

crowbartools / MixrElixr

Browser extension that enhances your Mixer viewing experience with custom emotes, new features, and a ton of options.

https://mixrelixr.com

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[Features] Inline Changelog/Settings Cog/Favorite Button Enchancement #40

Open xlxAciDxlx opened 6 years ago

xlxAciDxlx commented 6 years ago

Similar to how a lot of extensions/plugins work, it'd be nice if two things could be done to increase user awareness:

[ ] Inline changelog: essentially a changelog that would either open a new tab or just popup (once) on Mixer displaying what you've changed. The single time popup would be simple as you could just set a cookie and unset it when a new version is installed (if possible, I'm not too familiar with extension development)
[ ] Settings Cog: Somewhere on Mixer, it'd be nice to include a cog icon (maybe near XP/sparks?) to access any settings for MixrElixr. I can write up some mockups if you'd like to see some implementation ideas I've had.
[ ] Make "Favorite" Button Match New Follow/Following Button: Mixer recently updated the following button, in my opinion it'd be nice to see the "Favorite" button expanded to match the design (mainly because I'm a stickler for things looking like they "fit" ;))

Thanks for your time :)

ebiggz commented 6 years ago

I like the idea of a changelog popup in mixer whenever we have an update. Definitely will get that added.

At the beginning of development we actively decided against an inline button to access settings for the time being, firstly because it vastly simplifies and improves development speed and quality but also because we knew we wanted to add other things such as the "Who's online" tab that we want available outside of the mixer website. We would like to get a subset of the settings in the site eventually, though, its just not a priority until we've gotten more of the bigger features out of the way.

xlxAciDxlx commented 6 years ago

I like the idea of a changelog popup in mixer whenever we have an update. Definitely will get that added.

Awesome!

We would like to get a subset of the settings in the site eventually, though, its just not a priority until we've gotten more of the bigger features out of the way.

Fair enough

xlxAciDxlx commented 6 years ago

Added another suggestion to my OP, also updated the formatting of the post so you can check things off as they are completed.

I read the contributing guidelines, does this mean we can do things ourselves and submit them directly via Pull Requests? If so I wouldn't mind taking a stab at my own suggestions (at least the ones you don't directly say no to :P).

ebiggz commented 6 years ago

Yeah I saw the new favorite button and the new hosting goodies (new host bar, tabbed chat - which Elixr doesn't seem to work 100% on), and was thinking the exact same thing!

Of course, we love seeing the awesome stuff people make for Elixr and Mixer. The inline favorite button was actually done by community member @murfguy, he would be a good resource for that specific feature. :)

xlxAciDxlx commented 6 years ago

So I did a bit of a mockup to see if I did go through with it how it'd look, here's what I came up with so far (ideally just to match the "Follow/Following" button)

https://imgur.com/a/j0wMW

I also had the idea of if we did make it match, we could also maybe make it responsive - so on smaller screens it would just contextually change and only show the star icon.