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Content structure - add subtags and move importance to settings. #183

Open erperion opened 4 years ago

erperion commented 4 years ago

Before you start.

Right now my content structure looks like this:

I would like to have something like this:

Would such structure be possible anytime in the future?

blipdrifter commented 4 years ago

Honestly? I +1 this. I'm slowly realizing that I'd prefer to have my content divvied up between Twitters I follow and other web content I follow, and having sub-categories for both would be amazing, period.

(not sure how I feel about moving importance to settings though)

medicinecal commented 4 years ago

We have talked about nested tags and... unfortunately, I'm not sure this will happen. We can't fit it elegantly into the UI, especially with the new dropdown coming. (See https://fraidyc.at/blog/electronic-drawers-that's-all/.)

I think if we had good ideas, we would go for this - but we're not natural users of this feature and we don't add any features that we aren't completely fired up about.

I don't know what you mean by moving importance into the settings - do you mean the Fraidycat settings page?

Thank you for filing this - I wish I could offer a better response!

erperion commented 4 years ago

I don't know what you mean by moving importance into the settings - do you mean the Fraidycat settings page?

Right now importance are subtags - you have a main tag and when you add feed you pick importance subtag, right? And importance have build in setting how often they should check for a content updates. In my example: "Design [Frequent]" the subtag and importance are separated. So you could have subtags named xxx and yyy, and just like you can edit feed there would be an option to edit each subtag where could pick importance setting (different for each subtask). So now I have Work tag and inside I can have only one subtag of each importance but in my example I could have two subtags with the same importance:

Hope that explains it a bit better, if not I will make a sketch or something.

We have talked about nested tags and... unfortunately, I'm not sure this will happen. We can't fit it elegantly into the UI, especially with the new dropdown coming. (See https://fraidyc.at/blog/electronic-drawers-that's-all/.)

I didn't know that you had a blog, on your website there should be a section with the latest blog post or at least excerpt of it. Link to your blog is too easy to miss. You should also pin an issue that you are working on v2 version with details/link to blog. I've seen some v2 labels but I couldn't find more info about it (maybe because I'm a github dummy).

As for the v2 navigation, in the blog post you have linked you wrote that some users were complaining that they have multiple rows of tabs, ok I understand that but the solution you have chosen it will create another group of complaining people for example me. Here's my (little) rant:

  1. main navigation should be always visible (at least most of it)
  2. it requires additional action - extra click (or hover over) to display dropdown with navigation
  3. dropdowns sucks

I would propose something like in firefox, once you have too many tabs open there are two buttons (https://imgur.com/a/Dwsh6wO) available to scroll tabs. Tabs have minimum width (favicon + 4 first letters) so they stand out (unlike in chrome based browser when there is too many tabs even favicons are cramped and hard to recognize). I think something like this would satisfy people like me - I want to see navigation all the time and people who would like to avoid multiple rows with tabs.

My english isn't good so if I wrote something you don't understand just tell me.

medicinecal commented 4 years ago

Ok - amazing, thank you for the detailed writing - that clears it up!

  1. main navigation should be always visible (at least most of it)
  2. it requires additional action - extra click (or hover over) to display dropdown with navigation
  3. dropdowns sucks

I agree that these are very good rational reasons! I'm sorry to say that we are loving the new dropdown. It has been very surprising. Perhaps at some point I can try to articulate the tradeoffs in a rational way.

We may bring back tabs in Fraidycat 2 as an option.

We already do have the side arrows in Fraidycat when there are too many tabs. (Interesting that the side arrows break your two rules above.)