Re:Show HN: Sqwok – A social chat alternative to Twitter and...
by fernly on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @07:14PM
(#31174334)
Second the need for a "Top" button, and a "Latest" button for when you have read partway through a long thread and just want to get to the end now.
I also second the request for a more obvious way to get back to the list of topics (and when the list of topics has become huge, back to the same position in the list where I was). This is desktop. I clicked the Sqwok logo upper left and it seemed to do it but it was a blind guess.
Re:Show HN: Sqwok – A social chat alternative to Twitter and...
by holler on Tuesday April 26, 2022 @07:53PM
(#31174640)
> and just want to get to the end now.
There should be a button that appears when you've scrolled up that says "return to bottom", but agree need the reverse to jump to the top!
Maybe just a simple "Home" link in the global header next to the logo?
> Since it brought me to the end of the chat I had to scroll to the top to catch up (which has some loading lag) so it felt like I had to do too much work to get engaged. Perhaps the opening post could be pinned at least?
I hadn't thought of pinning the top message once it's been buried but that's not a bad idea. Or just adding a "to the top" button?
> The other part I got kind of lost with was the lack of a back button to return to the topics. Using the browser isn’t an issue, but the way the UI is presented it seemed like it would be there but I didn’t see it.
I take it you were on mobile? That's good feedback I have to think about.
Thank you!