Short version: the “card” that appears when one hovers (in the stream) over a post author’s name or image tends to obscure view of the post itself. Could we alter the way these cards appear, so that they are less intrusive?
Longer version: This is probably a new feature, as I’ve only started noticing it. I think it is a useful feature, as it allows one to follow the post author (e.g. if the post has been reshared). However, they get triggered much too often (mostly when I am moving the mouse to click on a link in the post… the card pops up and obscures the link), and are currently a bit of an annoyance – I find myself waiting for them to go away, or clicking elsewhere to make them go away, before being able to read the post.
Several solutions:
- make the cards only appear for post-authors one does not already follow. (This is when they’re most useful to me: someone I follow reshares something, and I want to follow the original author.)
- make the cards appear in a particular place (e.g. over the left-hand menu rather than over the stream? – although this does have the disadvantage of obscuring the left-hand menu!)
- make the cards appear only when one hovers over the post-author’s name, rather than when one hovers over the post-author’s name OR image. This would reduce the likelihood of the card popping up when one is simply moving the mouse to click on something in the post.
An alternative might be to not have such cards popping up and instead have an extra button (next to the “Ignore” and “Hide” buttons in the top right hand corner of each post) which would allow one to add the post author/manage which aspect they are in. This is the main point (as I see it) of the cards, so if implemented would remove the need for constantly-popping-up cards. The secondary functionalities such as allowing one to see the post-author’s followed tags aren’t so important – one could find out that information by clicking through to their page. (But I appreciate this is more controversial.)
What do you think?
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