Navigation Controls inconsistencies

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ondrej discusses inconsistencies in navigation controls across different views in the platform, noting that while they appear clean on mobile and in the /latest view on desktop, they become overcrowded in categories and tags where topic creation is restricted. Specifically, the spacing between buttons like AI summaries, New Topic, and Drafts appears uneven, and the presence of a ‘New Topic’ button in areas where it’s not allowed (e.g., completed tag) feels redundant. ondrej proposes removing unnecessary buttons like ‘New Topic’ and Drafts dropdowns in such contexts to reduce clutter, suggests uniform spacing and button sizes, and acknowledges the feedback may come across as critical.

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Hello,

It’s my personal view and I’d like to hear other people’s opinions on this.

When you’re navigating around, the navigation controls [1] on mobile they look a bit cleaner in design, but like on desktop, they get busy very quickly as I’ll point out in the last example. They look okay in /latest view on desktop.

Category you're allowed to create topics in
Category you're allowed to create topics in540×114 7.26 KB

If you go to a category eg. Support (you’re allowed to create topics in).

Once I spotted this I can’t seem to un-see it but the gap seems to be slightly larger between the AI summaries and New Topic.

I do however, like the gap between the drafts and New Topic though.

Tag you're not allowed to create topics in view
Tag you're not allowed to create topics in view698×117 3.24 KB

If you go to a tag you’re not allowed to create topics in such as completed its far too overcrowded with buttons I wouldn’t need.

My proposals are:

  • Remove buttons that seem pointless like the ‘New Topic’ and Drafts dropdown as it would help de-clutter this area. If the ‘New Topic’ button isn’t visible, it should be a logical response to go “Ah! I can’t create topics here”.

  • Having two info buttons of different sizes looks weird too.

  • Same spacing and size for buttons

Apologies if this sounded like the rantings of a lunatic :sweat_smile:

  1. I think that what they’re called ↩︎

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