Many of you rightfully complained about the navigation on narrow screens taking up too much vertical space. Now once you begin to scroll, it will take only a single line, and with that single line having the most useful and actionable pieces. While I’m here, let’s take a tour of those elements and what you might find in them, should you choose to click one.
Here’s what you get in the left hand “hamburger” menu of three lines →
These menu items will generally take you to a list view of the stories in the categories here, for people who want to skip straight to the good stuff, no images, just story titles.
Also note our good friend Community Spotlight will be joining this menu very soon is now live on this menu! (This image was taken from a staging server.)
The center, with the Daily Kos logo, takes you back to the home page, as per convention on most sites.
The right hand navigation, which would be from either your personal avatar or our generic one, if you are logged in, looks something like this →
This lets you quickly get to:
- Recent replies to your comments
- New private messages
- A link to start a fresh story/diary
- Your unpublished drafts
- Your profile, for viewing or editing
- A list of your groups where you are a member
- A list of all the stories you’ve written
- Your Activity Stream, the sweeet sweeeet payoff for the people, groups, and tags that you follow
- A list of comments you’ve written, like a time machine
- A chance to Hide Ads if you’re a subscriber, or an invitation to subscribe if you’re not
- A preference setting to use the old frontpage
- A button to sign out
There’s extra stuff at the top for people with wider screens, and there’s more stuff when you first load the page, but it immediately scrolls away now, so that there’s more room for reading stories and writing comments and doing all the other fun things that you actually wanted to do.
If this made your day better, please let us know. If there’s still more we need to do on this navigation, please let us know kindly, in the comments, and screen shots may be helpful, so we can do better. Thanks all!
(As always, follow the Daily Kos Announcements group to see the latest news and release notes.)