(sorry for the snark, but I’m guessing leaving user emotions in during UX testing is valuable)
I just did the following:
Clicked on this answer to this post in the feed, which expanded the context to show the first part of the post itself.
Clicked on the title of the post in the expansion, which opened the whole thing in the post-over-feed overlay—or so I assumed.
Got terribly confused when the answer I’d originally gotten there from was absent. In fact, there was no indication of it being a question-type post—it was presented as though it were a basic article, with the comment section present but the answer section just missing!
Navigated to the original post in a new tab and facepalmed real hard.
This reeks of underlying fragility and has destroyed my confidence that the overlay is implemented in a way that will keep continued track of how posts are actually supposed to be presented. Until I see a “we refactored it so that it is now difficult to push changes that will desynchronize the presentation logic between these cases”, I’m going to have to assume it’s an attractive nuisance. 🙁
Edited to add: ah, I see dirk reported the same underlying issue—leaving this up in case the feeling/implication parts are still relevant.
Knowing user emotions is good! And it’s sometimes nice when people care enough to get mad. I’m working on fixing this now.
I’m afraid you’re right that the overlay does not automatically match the post page. Unfortunately it turns out a lot of complexity gets added because the overlway has its own scrolling context and I’m needing to make a lot of adjustment for that. Fortunately the core elements of the post page don’t really change, so once we’re matched it should stay matched.
(sorry for the snark, but I’m guessing leaving user emotions in during UX testing is valuable)
I just did the following:
Clicked on this answer to this post in the feed, which expanded the context to show the first part of the post itself.
Clicked on the title of the post in the expansion, which opened the whole thing in the post-over-feed overlay—or so I assumed.
Got terribly confused when the answer I’d originally gotten there from was absent. In fact, there was no indication of it being a question-type post—it was presented as though it were a basic article, with the comment section present but the answer section just missing!
Navigated to the original post in a new tab and facepalmed real hard.
This reeks of underlying fragility and has destroyed my confidence that the overlay is implemented in a way that will keep continued track of how posts are actually supposed to be presented. Until I see a “we refactored it so that it is now difficult to push changes that will desynchronize the presentation logic between these cases”, I’m going to have to assume it’s an attractive nuisance. 🙁
Edited to add: ah, I see dirk reported the same underlying issue—leaving this up in case the feeling/implication parts are still relevant.
This bug is at least fixed now! I await your next report, thanks.
Knowing user emotions is good! And it’s sometimes nice when people care enough to get mad. I’m working on fixing this now.
I’m afraid you’re right that the overlay does not automatically match the post page. Unfortunately it turns out a lot of complexity gets added because the overlway has its own scrolling context and I’m needing to make a lot of adjustment for that. Fortunately the core elements of the post page don’t really change, so once we’re matched it should stay matched.