Update: Photon v1.29.4 has addressed these concerns. Let me know what you think here
It seems the navigation is widely disliked by many people. I want Photon to be the most intuitive UI, so I’d like to fix this. Which of these should I do?
A - Revert the positions of the items on the navigation bar (Profile on right, home on left)
B - Have the default navigation be top on desktop
C - Move some things out of the profile menu into the navbar.
D - Revert the navbar entirely
Or give any other ideas you have. These changes were pushed early because I did not see any pushback early in the betas.
My only fear is that changing it back yet again will have ruined the muscle memory for both types of navigation.
I’ll be releasing some betas soon to adjust navigation and take in more feedback before committing.
A & B I think. In general, desktop should be the primary target, as mobile is well covered by other apps.
Also personally I would like there to be more emphasis on it being an actual landing page for an instance. Photon is the closest to being a full replacement for lemmy-ui, but the recent changes like moving the main instance logo away from the standard top left position makes it less suitable for this.