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UI for tool chain on items #88

Open scripting opened 7 months ago

scripting commented 7 months ago

I've heard that the tool chain below each river item is a distraction for some readers. I want to find out more about that.

  1. The features have to be somewhere. Like, RT, Doc, Code and Enclosure.
  2. Two of them have to be clickable, Like and Enclosure. As long as two have to be clickable, they all should be. There's plenty of horizontal room there.
  3. There could be a popup menu, however -- using the standard three vertical dots as the UI.
  4. The reason this is an issue right now is that there needs to be a Delete command added to the list.
  5. Cool historic note: There used to be a popup menu there, the code is still there, commented out.
  6. The tool chain is a UI standard in social media apps. I want people to make the association to social media apps, as much as they think of feed readers. I like this association.

Anyway, I think this is a good case study, and I find sometimes there are ideas lurking under the suggestions that are worth find out about.

scripting commented 7 months ago

Turns out deleting items is pretty freaking hard, and only in very limited ways can you do it, and once an item is out you can't delete it in the rest of the world. Key point -- these are feeds. Even the ones you write.

There was an endpoint that set the flDeleted flag on an item, and it didn't require a login. It dates back to before FeedLand was announced or anyone but me used it. It's harmless now, but I disabled it anyway. Deployed on feedland.org for burning in.

I found the right icon though, and it was good to do the review of this functionality. Again FL is such a sprawling product internally.

I'm leaving this issue here for now to encourage discussion of the tool chain, if there is one to be had. ;-)