It’s difficult to approach because most of these features were added out of some necessity or request… but it’s useful to step back and look at what they’ve added up to.
There are certainly ways we can look at simplifying and don’t disagree with any feedback here, but also Meta is a bit of a worst-case scenario where we test all the things… the default is at least a little calmer. AI, translations, and GIFs are all disabled.
To keep this on the path of being actionable, what should we remove from this default experience?
Some things that I see as possibilities:
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The hamburger icon
≡to show/hide the toolbar… should we always show the toolbar if your device is above a certain size so we can remove the toggle? (we have to make it toggleable on very small devices, because sometimes the composer is constrained to a single line of text otherwise) -
I know that
xis close and
is delete… but they certainly feel like they’re in the same realm of functionality. We used to have one and would ask about saving a draft with a modal… was that trade-off worth having fewer buttons here? -
Can we collapse the tag input to a smaller button and only expand it on tap and when tags are present?
Does this start pushing things in the right direction? is there more worth hacking off?
