It's been a frenetic few days so far on the new UI for LeoFinance and by all accounts, the numbers have been very good. Although it's obviously still early in the game, it feels like this could really be a game-changer going forward. There are so many people and communities just here on Hive that can benefit from this that simply bringing them into the Leo community can jump the numbers dramatically. We're already starting to see it as a few communities are using some $LEO delegations to entice their members to try it out.
I think as the UI continues to improve, and people start to get used to the little idiosyncrasies of the platform, the numbers will continue to grow. Hopefully that 5000 MAUs by year end number that @khal and Co are shooting for needs a large revision upwards over the next couple months. This place truly could revolutionize "tweeting" on the blockchain.
In the meantime, there are a couple things I still find a little cumbersome/clunky that hopefully can get "fixed" fairly soon.
First, the notifications tab. Personally, I think that needs to be on a separate screen. Or even better, do it like Ecency does it with a dropdown showing all of them and then the ability to click on each one to go to where it took place. While I like being able to see the information across the screen as it is now, if people respond to a meme, the interface currently reprints the meme along with the comment. One of my greta memes, for instance, takes up like three pages of scrolling to get to the end. There needs to be a way to either condense all of that, or may bottle all comments for a certain post in one banner. You could then click the banner and see them all individually if you want. Same with votes. Maybe there could be a running total on the first one with a summary of "12 people voted for $1.73" and then if you click on it you could see everything individually. It would also be nice if you could clear or hide notifications you've already viewed. Currently they really clutter the screen.
Those are just my thoughts on this right now. Maybe I'll get used to it and it won't be as annoying. But as it stands, it's much easier for me to just go to Ecency and view all of my notifications there. I can click on each comment and respond instantly.
My second "complaint", for lack of a better word, is with the Publishing side of things. While I really like the way it's set up, we're still missing emojis, which are obviously a much-used feature of short-form. I also still have an issue getting images to post instead of links on threads. For some reason it always just shows the links. I've found a workaround with placing  directly after, but obviously it would be much easier without those extra steps.
Another thing that is annoying is I can't click on somebody's name and go to their page. Most of the people I click on have websites or twitter handles or whatever, outside of LeoFinance. I don't want to go to those places. I want to go to their "homepage" so I can see past articles. Right now, clicking on their name brings me to their profile page on LeoFinance, which only shows me their latest threads. If they are an active threader, I may have to scroll through hundreds of them before I may find an article they wrote...and only because they linked it on threads.
So, that is some of my initial #feedback on the new UI. The mechanics are spectacular. It's fast, smooth, attractive, and very easy to use. I can't wait for the upgrades and improvements that will be coming in the weeks and months ahead. Including the wallet.
I'm having a lot of fun using it and have even gotten close to trying it out on my phone. Which is saying a LOT for me. lol
As always...
Hive is the Way.
LeoFinance, the Gateway.
PS. We also need a "Links" button so we can add LeoGlossary into the mix.
Posted Using LeoFinance Alpha
I wonder if it would be better to just automatically link LeoGlossary if there is no link for terms instead. Then again, not everyone might want those links there so many have a button there for people to click or not.
Posted Using LeoFinance Beta
The New UI is good, but I'm having a problem, When i tend to make a long post, the interface tend to move to the right, and the place we put the tag goes hidden. I don't know why it is happening, May be there are something wrong in my side.
Are you in Discord? You should go report that in the "bugs" channel. If you can add a screenshot, even better. They want to know these things, especially if they're kind of weird. The idea is for us to be the testers so we can find all the bugs before they start bringing in lots of outside users. So we want to find all the bugs we can.
I'm not using discord these days, I'll have a look if my id is working or not, if it isn't working, I'll have to create a new one. Thanks for your kind suggestion.
This is what happening with me, the preview of post gets smaller as I wrote big post and tag portion also gets on the right and hide. Hope you are getting what I'm trying to say here @dagger212. sorry to tag you here. it was necessary to get your attention.
It looks good the new UI. But I haven't got round to it yet. I shall try it later !
yea, the new UI is pretty awesome!
I like your ideas on streamlining the notifications..
NO emojis?!?! 😒😣🤙 i hear ya, i just use the (win key + .) keyboard shortcut to open the emojis that I always use. It's faster than clicking on the emoji button i think.
Oh, that would be great! Hopefully in the not so distant future.
I think the user homepage discovery could be worked on like #Inji, where you'll have a tab to switch between the threads profile and the blog posts.
I think this update is good for leo finance community. One benefit of this would be that people replying and commenting would speed up and I was also having some problems using Leia Final, I hope that doesn't happen when it comes out. The way we are seeing his team working now, we will see the market setting up now, so their price may go up in the coming days.