Very valuable options like Saved Searches, AI and Activitypub are only visible when pressing the > icon, making them hard to discover, especially if you don’t know they’re there.
Even with my font preferences set to “smallest” it doesn’t show all of them.
Maybe this could be broken up in two lines, one with the default options and one for the plugins?
Or could all notification and category preferences, + email settings be consolidated. It is very hard for a new users to realise that these things are all in different places.
I can agree that there are too many options. It might be worth considering minimizing cognitive load.
Is this one of those situations where touch screens are better than mouse-world and shortcuts? Because horizontally scrolling is nothing to worth of mention when swiping.
I considered that, but I think this is mostly about the fact that the options aren’t immediately visible.
horizontal scrolling works well on touch screen but not when you need to remember whether to hit this menu or that menu, or click twice (e.g. to get email in preferences) and scroll down. There are just too many variations for an occasional user to learn.
How would that be easier if there would be like just one or three setting categories? It is way more easier to find ActivityPub related ones under ActivityPub than search it from one list?
Do you think site settings are equally hard? There is much more categories that this has.
Or is the issue now total amounts of settings? I don’t know how that could be avoided.
I don’t know what ActivityPub is.
I think that it is a lot to expect occasional users who are knew to discourse to know to:
But I agree about the amount of settings. One solution would be to allow administrators to reduce the amount of settings that are available to users. I’m not sure all are needed in all forums. This is a truly remarkable software with all of the options to customise but allowing administrators to reduce options for users e.g. turn off navigation choice or others might really help.
It is one set of settings that is needed, and must be there. Just an example, though.
I think we’re deviating from my point that those settings are simply not visible, except when you know that they’re there, and you scroll horizontally.
This can easily be solved by putting them on two lines.
