This might just be me, but I really hate the floating action button on LW. It’s an eyesore on what is otherwise a very clean website. The floating action button was designed to “Represent the primary action on a screen” and draw the user’s attention to itself. It does a great job at it, but since “ask us anything, or share your feedback” is not the primary thing you’d want to do, it’s distracting.
Not only does it do that, but it also give the impression that this is another cobbled together Meteor app and therefore my brain instantly makes me associate it with all the other crappy Meteor apps.
The other thing is that when you click on it, it’s doesn’t fit in with the rest of the site theme. LW has this great black-grey-green color scheme, but if you click on the FAB, you are greeted with a yellow waving hand, and when you close it, you get this ugly red (1) in the corner of your screen.
It also kinda pointless since the devs and mods on this website are all very responsive and seem to be aware of everything that gets posted.
I could understand it at the start of LW 2.0 when everything was still on fire, but does anyone use it now?
People in fact use it quite a bit. That said, you can hide it in your user-settings.
Also, doublechecking if by default it appears as anything than a subdued circle, like this?
(Occasionally we get reports of it being much-more-obtrusive, by showing more messages or something immediately. If it’s doing that for you, apologies. That is a bug)
This might just be me, but I really hate the floating action button on LW. It’s an eyesore on what is otherwise a very clean website. The floating action button was designed to “Represent the primary action on a screen” and draw the user’s attention to itself. It does a great job at it, but since “ask us anything, or share your feedback” is not the primary thing you’d want to do, it’s distracting.
Not only does it do that, but it also give the impression that this is another cobbled together Meteor app and therefore my brain instantly makes me associate it with all the other crappy Meteor apps.
The other thing is that when you click on it, it’s doesn’t fit in with the rest of the site theme. LW has this great black-grey-green color scheme, but if you click on the FAB, you are greeted with a yellow waving hand, and when you close it, you get this ugly red (1) in the corner of your screen.
It also kinda pointless since the devs and mods on this website are all very responsive and seem to be aware of everything that gets posted.
I could understand it at the start of LW 2.0 when everything was still on fire, but does anyone use it now?
/rant
People in fact use it quite a bit. That said, you can hide it in your user-settings.
Also, doublechecking if by default it appears as anything than a subdued circle, like this?
(Occasionally we get reports of it being much-more-obtrusive, by showing more messages or something immediately. If it’s doing that for you, apologies. That is a bug)
This solves my problem, thank you. Also it does look just like the screenshot, no problems other than what I brought up when you click on it.
I turned it off long ago, and had forgotten it exists.