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teanndaorsa:
I'm experimenting with a tweak to the front page display that suits the way I've been editing / publishing a bit better.

It used to be that Gromet would collect up several stories for a single site, which meant it made sense to show the dates of recent updates in terms of which sites got updated on which days. I'm not so much a fan of doing that because some of the less busy sites can go weeks before getting more than one submission; so my habit is to plow through the stories in roughly the order they were received.

That's meant that most of the "Updates" section that you see first is a list of dates, all with "Bound Stories" next to them, plus some other sites; a lot of repetition and not an awful lot of information. Now instead you'll see a list of story titles and authors, so you can see how many stories for each section, and from which authors. Tapping on those stories will still take you to the relevant section, so it's not changed the way you navigate to new stories, it's just showing more information as you do.

I'm interested in hearing any constructive feedback folks have. I'm not going to overhaul the whole thing as it's working reasonably well and I have other priorities, but there may be other simple tweaks that might aid usability.

loras pa6:
Seems logical to me

loras pa6:
I'm going to add, currently the way it appears on the Mobil version leaves room for improvements

teanndaorsa:

--- Quote from: Loras Pa6 on June 25, 2020, 12:12:54 pm ---I'm going to add, currently the way it appears on the Mobil version leaves room for improvements

--- End quote ---

That's fair, I'd be interested to hear specifics about what you thought could be better? And if possible, information on device and resolution you use as that will help me reproduce your experience.

Another reader has brought to my attention that stories don't look great on high resolution tablets (because they fall somewhere between the desktop and mobile), so at some point I want to look at the site styles and polish them a bit to improve things. That may have to wait until I get some assistance with the editing but it's on my list.

loras pa6:
I'm on an iPhone (8 specifically) but my statement was not about resolution (which seems fine on my device) but about how the way the new update lists displays the stories info

All the story title/author/section info within the specific date all blend in to one long sentence

I will email you a screen capture so you can see what I mean

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