signal boost

[sideways]

If you are like me and often don't pay much attention to the DW news page, you may have missed the notice that there are some significant design changes coming!

There is a window somewhere between a couple of weeks and a couple of months to comment on those changes and help the dev team address any major bugs.

Personally, I switched to the new Create Post mode earlier this year and have found it visually less 'pretty' but mechanically more workable, and I'm interested to see what doors might open up for the dev team once they're no longer strapped to maintaining ancient code, heh.

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[seven]

Yeah definitely. I also like...when I commented, I'd just clicked the toggle to switch it over to beta, and taken a brief look at it as a huge text box with everything else off screen at the bottom, and wasn't immediately a fan. But later I actually went in and messed around with the settings to change it to a two-column view and move each module around where I liked it, and now I love it actually? I sympathise with people not liking change, but this is a fantastic update, even if it wasn't being done out of necessity.

[sideways]

Aw good! The ability to switch off unused modules is a big win, and the two column set-up works well on desktop while still defaulting to a handy single column on mobile. I know there are still a number of folks upset that they can't set the icon to the left or above the create post buuuut it's impossible to please every single person when backed into the corner of having to make some kind of significant change, and I respect the dev team is pretty small and doing the best they can with the resources they have.

I'm a little more meh on the inbox because the text feels HUGE to me after so many years of teeny tiny font size, heh. But I'll adapt.