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App (Play Store): https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idunnololz.summit

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[Feature Request] Subsciptiom secion in the communites menu. (sh.itjust.works)

submitted 11 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I would like to be able to change what communities are listed to the commuies I am subbed to or have a section at the top of the list to be the list of communites any given user is subbed to.

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (4 children)

Ohhh I think you are missing a part of the app. If you swipe from left to right on the community/post list screen you will see your community bookmarks as well as your subscriptions.

You can also access that screen by tapping the menu button (bottom right) and then tapping "my communities".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

Yeah, I was missing half of that part. I knew about the button but not the swipe to access. That would make sense.

In that case, maybe consider a guide or short tutorial for when people first install the app. Or something in the settings page showing how things can be accessed and whatnot.

Cuz a lot of this is stuff I probably would have never figured out and the same is very likely true for many others as well.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (2 children)

Yeah this is always a tough one. I hate tutorials and personally would never read them and auto dismiss them. The best app designs are ones where actions are intuitive or at the very least discoverable. This is a flaw of the "hamburger menu". It's not intuitive and it's usually hard to discover. In my past apps I constantly got feature requests to features that already existed in the side menu. Moving to the bottom menu pretty much got rid of all those bug reports despite a lot of people not liking it because it takes up screen space.

For Summit, I'm not sure what to do just yet. Technically the side menu has a button dedicated to it in the overflow menu so it's slightly discoverable but it's still buried. I think I'd have to think about it more. Maybe I can add a button to the "community browser".

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I'm confused as to how the "hambbuger menu" is not intuitive. It's one of the first things people look for and if it is not there, they will see if the top right or left have a button that does the basically the same thing. And therefore, makes it one of the most intuitive things that an app like a Lemmy client can have.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

Yeah you'd think so but I got at least one email a week about it back then.