Werd Beta Update

Some UI/UX improvements

December 8, 2020 8:32 AM

Werd Beta has been updated with the following changes:

Moved the tagging button closer to the tag display (Need feedback, is this a good place for it?)
Made an attempt to fix focus issues with hotkeys firing when they shouldn't

New tag button

Everyone can get Werd for any Windows 10 device here

If you want to be added to the beta channel, let me know by sending me a SM with the email address you use as your MSA on the Windows Store.

Put any feedback or feature requests in the chatty thread. Enjoy!

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boarder2

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December 8, 2020 8:32 AM

Werd Beta got an update and I'd like some feedback about it, check it out!

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- boarder2
  
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  December 8, 2020 8:37 AM
  
  Paging Sailor of Fortune - jason bergman - ConfusedUs - Please try this out and see if it solves your focus issues!
  - ConfusedUs
    
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    December 8, 2020 9:56 AM
    
    This is a test post. It didn't shift focus. So 1 for 1 tries works 100% of the time A++ five stars would post again
  - Sailor of Fortune
    
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    December 8, 2020 9:58 AM
    
    Messing around and so far no focus loss.
    - boarder2
      
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      December 8, 2020 10:06 AM
      
      Good good. Hopefully that's put to bed once and for all!
      - Sailor of Fortune
        
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        December 8, 2020 12:32 PM
        
        Just had it happen just now when I was testing a reply to feek below. I decided to hit "a" first and it jumped to another post, closing the reply box.
  - feek
    
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    December 8, 2020 10:41 AM
    
    Oooh that would be awesome if it’s fixed. Plagued me for a long time
    - feek
      
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      December 8, 2020 11:01 AM
      
      hmm. it just happened to me in 212.81.0
      - boarder2
        
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        December 8, 2020 11:03 AM
        
        Can you enable Dev Tools and if it happens again grab the debug log? I don't know if I have enough logging in there to accurately capture what's causing it but maybe it'll help. I don't think I've ever had this happen to me so it's hard to track it down.
        
        feek
        
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        December 8, 2020 11:07 AM
        
        https://pastebin.com/G7F0TcWg
        
        boarder2
        
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        December 8, 2020 11:11 AM
        
        Ok, that may be helpful. Had you just restarted the app before you started typing the reply?
        
        feek
        
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        December 8, 2020 11:12 AM
        
        I did, yeah. That's the best way to replicate it in my experience. I think it's generally (perhaps always?) happening when typing the first reply since opening the app.
        
        boarder2
        
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        December 8, 2020 11:14 AM
        
        Ok, there's definitely a problem again with resetting the data context or something after selecting a post for the first time. I haven't dug into that again yet so I'll put it on the list.
- aggressor
  
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  December 8, 2020 9:04 AM
  
  At first glance, the tagging icon seems out of place in it's new spot.
  
  I was thinking...what about pushing the timestamps far right, then using the spot where the timestamp used to occupy as the new tagging location? Quick mockup:
  
  https://i.imgur.com/qwSkDhX.png
  - boarder2
    
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    December 8, 2020 9:07 AM
    
    Hmm, I don't immediately hate it but I feel like there was a reason I didn't do this to begin with.
    - boarder2
      
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      December 8, 2020 9:08 AM
      
      I definitely don't like the position of the button where it is though, something's gotta give
      - ConfusedUs
        
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        December 8, 2020 10:21 AM
        
        I really miss the loltag options being Just Visible the way they were in LAMP. I don't like clicking into a sub menu to find/see them.
        
        boarder2
        
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        December 8, 2020 10:25 AM
        
        That's probably never going to change. I have to keep the count of items visible at any given time down and once the inline chatty comes into play that's a *lot* more UI elements at any given time
        
        ConfusedUs
        
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        December 8, 2020 10:58 AM
        
        I get it, but it's a barrier to engagement that bothers me. The site itself has them out in the open for, I presume, a reason.
        
        boarder2
        
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        December 8, 2020 10:01 PM
        
        The other reason I won't do it is because clicking an existing tag is the way you can tell which users tagged something and I can't really think of any other good way to do that.
        
        ConfusedUs
        
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        December 8, 2020 10:26 AM
        
        Think something like this, only with the correct colors for each tag
        
        https://i.imgur.com/FyBXBNp.png
  - boarder2
    
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    December 8, 2020 10:22 PM
    
    I think this works pretty well
    https://i.imgur.com/9oM1Cf5.png
    - boarder2
      
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      December 8, 2020 10:24 PM
      
      Which is funny because that's where it was before the redesign that put usernames on the left.
- feek
  
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  December 8, 2020 11:05 AM
  
  sure. I just replicated it typing this.
  - Sailor of Fortune
    
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    December 8, 2020 12:31 PM
    
    It just happened to me just now. I hit "a" first when I went to reply.
    - boarder2
      
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      December 8, 2020 12:33 PM
      
      First time you opened the app? Did you click the reply button with the mouse or use a hot key?
      - boarder2
        
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        December 8, 2020 12:35 PM
        
        Yeah, ok. I think I have a way to repro it. The first time you open the app and click with the mouse to reply it will happen. It's surely the data context problem I mentioned earlier. I'll try to track it down soon!
        
        ConfusedUs
        
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        December 8, 2020 1:35 PM
        
        Confirmed that this reproduced it for me
      - Sailor of Fortune
        
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        December 8, 2020 12:35 PM
        
        Mouse click on the reply button. App has been running since the update. I don't use the hot keys.
        
        boarder2
        
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        December 8, 2020 12:37 PM
        
        Alright, I'll try to use the mouse more. I pretty much exclusively press "r" to reply to someone
- j0nchan
  
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  December 8, 2020 12:27 PM
  
  what do people use for iphone? latestchatty is flakey for me. half the time i open it up, it makes ios unresponsive for 15-30 seconds.
  - aggressor
    
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    December 8, 2020 12:28 PM
    
    I use LatestChatty and I don't have that issue. Maybe delete+reinstall?
  - boarder2
    
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    December 8, 2020 12:30 PM
    
    latest chatty is still the thing to use for now. bouilloncubes was working on a new client but it's not ready.
    
    try uninstalling and reinstalling latest chatty, it has a issue where the cache can become gigantic and exhibit behavior like you're seeing.
  - electroly
    
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    December 8, 2020 1:06 PM
    
    delete the app and reinstall it. i know that sounds like general purpose bullshit advice but this is specifically a known lc.app issue and this is the known fix
- jason bergman
  
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  December 8, 2020 12:45 PM
  
  This is my first attempt to reply with the beta. Seems okay so far!
  - jason bergman
    
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    December 8, 2020 12:45 PM
    
    This is my second attempt. Also no issue!
    - johnhead
      
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      December 8, 2020 1:01 PM
      
      and testing again
- johnhead
  
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  December 8, 2020 1:01 PM
  
  testing here