The discussion revolves around improving the user experience when reading messages. tobiaseigen suggests displaying the profile header and horizontal navigation when viewing individual messages to provide context and make navigation easier. An alternative suggestion is to include a link to the messages folder (e.g., inbox) directly under the title.
sam shares his immediate roadmap, which includes automatically taking users back to the list after archiving a message and displaying “suggested messages” at the bottom. tobiaseigen agrees with these ideas but emphasizes the need for a more email-like UI, such as providing a way to click back to the messages list from the message.
tobiaseigen shares UI mockups to illustrate possible implementations. sam notes that this change could address a long-standing complaint that private messages do not feel private enough.
I’m loving the new messages features with inbox, sent, archive folders. Nice job.
It would be improved by displaying the profile header and horizontal navigation (activity, notifications, messages, badges etc) when viewing individual messages, just like on the message list. As it is now the messages have no context and it’s hard to find your way back to your message list.
An alternative might be to provide a link to the messages folder it is in directly under the title, e.g. inbox, like you see categories and tags for post topics.
Those two ideas are good - but really at the end of the day I think people expect messages to be more like email than topics, so having the UI look more like gmail would be welcomed. Or at least provide a way to click back to the messages list from the message.
