Re: Updated site 11/16
Reply #1 –
Browsing on my phone and this site looks pretty darn good.
Re: Updated site 11/16
Reply #5 –
I'd call it a waste of a main menu button. I've never once used the notifications section of SMF in all the years I've been using the software. Should be subsiduary, IMHO. You could do it as part of the account button, with a pop-up as for PM numbers.
Re: Updated site 11/16
Reply #6 –
Oh and the on/off icons don't show for me, even after clearing cache.
Re: Updated site 11/16
Reply #8 –
on/off are working fine for me. I like the notifications button though. I had no idea I was mentioned somewhere until that button showed up.
Re: Updated site 11/16
Reply #9 –
I'm also fine with the menu the way it is, Maybe we can move the PM counter and Notifications counter out of the menu and push it somewehere in the header .. but I'd simply leave it there for 1.0 and see what our users think..
Re: Updated site 11/16
Reply #10 –
I agree with the above as well. I don't think they belong under the My Account button at all. Right now the top buttons are the things people do when they come to a site so whats there makes sense to me. Like TE says, lets see what feedback we get and adjust as needed.
Re: Updated site 11/16
Reply #11 –
Weird. First you wanted to split the personal stuff out of the site stuff. Now you want to split the personal stuff into different places, some mixed up with the site stuff and some not. Beats me, but I'm not going to waste my time arguing about it.
Re: Updated site 11/16
Reply #12 –
Yeah, it may sound weird.
I don't know why, but when you proposed "let's separate community-stuff-personal" it made sense. Though when I saw and touched the separation, it looked weird.
It was difficult for my brain deal with the fact that clicking on "my account" I was obtaining the personal messages, it's an unexpected behaviour.
Also the "logout" button looked weird all alone there on the far right.
From my experience here with the menu, it would be more logical to have PMs as sub-menu of "my account", not primary. In that case I could "understand" it: PMs are a "sub-section" of my own account, make sense. But as you pointed out people use more the PM rather than the account, and as such PM should be top-level in order to facilitate users. But then it would be counter-intuitive from an user-expectation point of view, so probably the separation (even though illogical in the general presentation of the menu) is the only meaningful way to deal with it.
ETA: of course that's just my 2 cents and my personal experience with the last few months using it here.