I don’t know if there are a lot of complaints about this, I bought bigger screens so I can fit more things on them, not to just make everything bigger.
I can maybe get behind increasing the font from 13 to 14 … but how you did it here by only increasing the font size of posts makes everything looks really unbalanced to me. So everything is still small, but suddenly the posts are bigger. If we want to increase the font-size, we should do it erverywhere, so it looks balanced again. And stuff like that should probably be more thought through than just “quickly change some stuff to make it look differently”. We will probably work on a new UI at some time, but probably after the next major release. But then we can think about what makes sense and which font sizes need to be how big, but then it can be a complete concept and not just some inconsistent changes here and there.
For now: If people really think the font is too small, they can just zoom in one or two steps in the browser and everything will look fine.
This is a change that’s only needed “to make it look different but no other reason”. It doesn’t improve anything, and it breaks at some places, for example for boxes that should go below the header:
I’m strictly against this one. Besides it again only be a “only to make something look different”-reason, it makes the avatar look different at different places. It’s squared now everywhere (besides maybe slightly rounded corners), so when a user uploads a new avatar, the user knows how it will look. And it will look that way everywhere (even consistent between friendica and hubzilla, as they also have squared avatars). If we change this to round, users would need to upload a different avatar, but then it would be shown differently on different versions or on friendica … so the user doesn’t know how it will look everywhere anymore. And users from old versions or friendica will still upload an avatar that looks great squared, but then it will suddenly cut off the edges on pods with new versions and stuff that would be visible when squared isn’t visible anymore everywhere. Not all avatars look great round and square at the same time.
So this makes things a lot worse in my opinion. So I’m probably even against this one when designing a completely new UI.
This also makes everything look inconsistent. Most things are mostly rectangular, and having round buttons then everywhere just looks wrong.
Also, just no:
A lot more thought needs to be put into a new UI for it to provide a consistent UX, and it’s not that easy to change some variables. And the current UI is fine, there is no need to change something that is working only to make it look differently. There is nothing wrong with having a UI that looks exactly like when it was introduced with 0.6. So instead of changing some little things that aren’t necessary in the current UI, lets rather work on how a completely new UI should look and work so it provides a consistent UX for a future release, so we when the time comes and we rewrite the frontend, we know what we need and we can hopefully create a UI again that doesn’t need to be touched for a long time because it just works.
In other news, as I released 0.7.18.0 earlier, I didn’t prepare a 0.7.19.0 (so no new milestone or changelog section), as I think we are all focusing on the next major release now, so unless there is a security hotfix needed or any other change should be backported to 0.7.x, this probably was the last 0.7.x release. (moved back to the other thread)