# A few small design opinions
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-few-small-design-opinions/216222
**Category:** UX
**Tags:** chat
**Created:** [January 27, 2022, 4:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-few-small-design-opinions/216222 "2022-01-27T16:15:02Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [January 27, 2022, 4:15pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-few-small-design-opinions/216222/1 "2022-01-27T16:15:02Z")
I’m testing the chat feature on another forum.
1. I find the action bar a little bit too invasive. Maybe I would get rid of 2 of the 3 most used reactions… 🤔:
2. It covers the replied message excerpt:
3. When you upload an image and set the chat in fullscreen, the thumbnail remains tiny. It would be nice if the thumbnail was larger when on fullscreen.
Small chat window:
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [April 5, 2022, 10:31pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-few-small-design-opinions/216222/2 "2022-04-05T22:31:24Z")
Pasting a small image upscales it, making it blurry. In my opinion, it shouldn’t upscale small images:
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2022, 12:02am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-few-small-design-opinions/216222/3 "2022-11-04T00:02:07Z")
> [@Canapin](#):
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> - I find the action bar a little bit too invasive. Maybe I would get rid of 2 of the 3 most used reactions… 🤔:
> Since the window is tiny, when reading you’re often hovering a message. If it never overlaps a message, I wonder if it could be improved.
> - It covers the replied message excerpt:
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Another thing: it also hides a bit of the top of the message text (if the message doesn’t reply to another one) when you hover the whole message:
And for some reason, on slow connections (I suppose: I have a very slow connection nowadays), there is a delay to show the reaction bar. I don’t know why since there is apparently no server-side query. I didn’t find a delay in the CSS as well. It seems a bit sluggish:
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2022, 12:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-few-small-design-opinions/216222/4 "2022-11-04T00:05:32Z")
The delay is on purpose, to avoid things moving too much on the screen. Nothing related to internet speed.
> [@Canapin](#):
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> Another thing: it also hides a bit of the top of the message text (if the message doesn’t reply to another one) when you hover the whole message:
Where would you put it then?
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2022, 8:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-few-small-design-opinions/216222/5 "2022-11-04T08:50:02Z")
> [@j.jaffeux](#):
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> Where would you put it then?
I’m not sure.
Just to explain, I often keep the cursor on a paragraph I’m reading on the Internet (like people that put their finger on the text of a book they’re reading), hence the fact that the text is partially hidden bothers me a little. It’s not unreadable at all obviously, just a tiny thing that scratches my brain.
Maybe reduce the size a bit, because the reaction bar seems very long to me.
Here’s with a scale of 1 (default):
And a scale of 0.85:
A scale of 0.9 would also work… And here’s without the quick reactions, since most-used reactions are already available in the reaction emoji menu:
Default reaction emoji menu:
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On top of other actions like when we right-click on a message on Discord? But I don’t think it’s particularly convenient if we remove the quick reactions.
But there are also mobile interactions to take into account… 🤷
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2022, 1:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-few-small-design-opinions/216222/6 "2022-11-04T13:54:33Z")
Yes we might want to consider removing recent reactions, at least in drawer mode @mcwumbly
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### Author:  [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2022, 2:00pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-few-small-design-opinions/216222/7 "2022-11-04T14:00:09Z")
I think some minor adjustments to size and positioning would help a fair bit.
We can make it a bit smaller and shift it up a bit to make sure it never occludes any text in the message and leaves a little breathing room in between.
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2022, 2:01pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-few-small-design-opinions/216222/8 "2022-11-04T14:01:10Z")
Not really because you have the case of multiple one line messages of the same user.
Also is being smaller a better idea than removing recent?
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### Author:  [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2022, 7:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-few-small-design-opinions/216222/9 "2022-11-04T19:42:27Z")
I like the idea of removing recent in drawer mode, it’s a very easy incremental improvement
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [November 4, 2022, 9:21pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-few-small-design-opinions/216222/10 "2022-11-04T21:21:22Z")
What is “drawer mode” exactly?
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [November 5, 2022, 8:38am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-few-small-design-opinions/216222/11 "2022-11-05T08:38:40Z")
The floating chat container at bottom right of the page, as opposed to full page chat.
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### Author:  [@j.jaffeux](https://meta.discourse.org/u/j.jaffeux)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2022, 7:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-few-small-design-opinions/216222/12 "2022-11-10T07:59:47Z")
I pushed various changes to msg actions, let me know how it goes for you 🙌
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### Author:  [@Canapin](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Canapin)
#### Post date: [November 10, 2022, 4:22pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/a-few-small-design-opinions/216222/13 "2022-11-10T16:22:42Z")
> [@j.jaffeux](#):
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> let me know how it goes for you 🙌
It’s just perfect for me. 👏