A feature that allows users to go on to the following topic that’s in the same tag or category while still being on the topic they’re currently viewing. This way users don’t have to go back every time they want to view the following topics.
USES: This will be incredibly useful for casual categories/tags, such as memes. You could keep viewing memes without any mechanical disruption to the user experience. Reddit is an example of this.
Example of where an arrow could be placed for this, (excuse my abysmal paint):
I understand your response, however, could there be a way of swiping right or left on a topic to get to the next one? I truly believe this would be an incredible quality-of-life feature that users will appreciate.
Swiping could be initiated from the middle of the screen, rather than the far sides. This does not trigger side panels on Android or iOS/Safari. Just tested it on both operating systems.
This sort of swiping from the center to navigate already exists on some applications, so it should work out.
Clever proposal, I like the idea. Only possible QoL hindrance could be to users that have tall, big smartphones which happens to be a huge portion of people. Reaching up to the title with your thumb often to browse to following latest topics may displease that demographic of users.
Maybe instead of showing the content while the swiping gesture is going on, it can display a placeholder icon until the animation/gesture is fully done, then proceed to load the content.
I am also looking for this feature to swipe the screen to left or right to open next/previous post in the same category only. This is a very common and I was hoping I can get it with Discourse. You said it is already implemented, but I couldn’t get this to work on mobile phone. Button next, or previous would be also OK, but I think it should be both sweeping and buttons.