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poggit / poggit

GitHub application for managing PocketMine-family plugins, and website for sharing plugins.
https://poggit.pmmp.io
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UI / UX #21

Open Awzaw opened 7 years ago

Awzaw commented 7 years ago

Here's a few ideas, let me know your thoughts.

Guest Homepage:

The main content I think should be moved into an "About" or "FAQ" page, so that the homepage can devote as much space as possible to people getting what they want: plugins.

There should be as little dev speak ("builds", "releases"...) as possible. It should be uncluttered and simple so that even non english-speaking kids can easily find and download a plugin. Since guests only see releases I suggest only using the term "Plugin" at least on the main release download page, and grouping them by recent, featured, recommended, category etc.

Search A real-time search box might be neat, again grouping results by name, author, category etc. If not, normal search is fine too.

Member Homepage

I need to see the timeline data before knowing how that page should be laid out, but here the main content could be focused on info about the workflow and how to use poggit, what it does, what it doesn't do etc, keeping the text short with links to information elsewhere if too long/detailed.

The other panes could display public releases and your own projects as it is now, plus the timeline underneath, for example.

Member CI page

I would change the toggle repo flow: instead of clicking, waiting for the arrow, clicking again on the arrow to display repos... one solution would be to use a modal dialog overlay like you do already for the repo enable dialog, to prevent any user interaction until the call back populates the page - only one click and a nice effect.

archie426 commented 7 years ago

I was thinking, instead of having a plugins column on the member page, swap that for a 'recently submitted' or a 'recently released' plugins and put the actual plugins on another page

HimbeersaftLP commented 7 years ago

Also nice for newbies would be a "How to install plugins" section

archie426 commented 7 years ago

@HimbeersaftLP Good idea

SOF3 commented 7 years ago

Remind people that there is only search for releases, no search for builds.

SOF3 commented 7 years ago

What you are proposing about member homepage kind of duplicates what /pi does. Consider redirection or using the same module?

Awzaw commented 7 years ago

I'd expect the Member homepage to be a general overview with panels pretty much as you have now but different arrangement if necessary, mixing public stuff (new dev builds/releases, maybe even something social) so it looks like a "dashboard" overview. The member CI page could then be focused entirely on their own repo/project admin

Magicode1 commented 7 years ago

I totally agree with this, because if you remember, some plugins on Pocketmine got hundreds of thousands of downloads (https://forums.pocketmine.net/plugins/essentialspe.886/)

Many of them weren't users and aren't very experienced. A less cluttered guest page would be the perfect solution to this.

Magicode1 commented 7 years ago

Do we want guests to be able to download plugins from the site without logging in?

SOF3 commented 7 years ago

@Magicode1 you mean plugin releases or CI builds?

Magicode1 commented 7 years ago

Releases

SOF3 commented 7 years ago

Of course. All plugins that have been approved by community or staff are available to all users.

Magicode1 commented 7 years ago

Sweet, just wanted to make sure

TheDiamondYT1 commented 7 years ago

I think the UI could be a bit nicer. Look at a plugin page on Bukkit https://dev.bukkit.org/projects/jarvis. Im not saying lets copy them, but it looks really nice. Even adding maybe a few <hr> tags and changing the background could make it look nicer. I would do it myself but i cant install poggit :/

Awzaw commented 7 years ago

There's UI improvement needed and we'll get to that in due course... but don't forget that Bukkit.org uses a CMS as it's only a plugin list, whereas Poggit was build from scratch. And page loads for plugins on Poggit are twice as fast as Bukkit ;-)

TheDiamondYT1 commented 7 years ago

@Awzaw I know, im just giving an example of a nice looking plugin repository

JaxkDev commented 3 months ago

Believe this is the last item yet to be updated:

Member CI page I would change the toggle repo flow: instead of clicking, waiting for the arrow, clicking again on the arrow to display repos... one solution would be to use a modal dialog overlay like you do already for the repo enable dialog, to prevent any user interaction until the call back populates the page - only one click and a nice effect.