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An attempt at rethinking the #UI for desktop #Friendica. The current feels dated, and most of all very chaotic.

While this is a rough draft, it should be possible to create as a theme for Friendica without lots of changes to Friendica itself.

Anyone with knowledge about how to make such a theme that maybe want to help?

Audun Mb

2025-01-30 13:22:13

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Ikke egentlig mitt felt dette, men en forenkling denne veien hadde gjort seg

#friendica #UI
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Pekka Kurki
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Great idea! Perhaps repost this in friendica support? I feel there are currently a lot of people who seek an alternative to Facebook, and Friendica could be the one. But it is definitely confusing at first.

Suggestion:
🏠 Since it's "FRIENDica", home button should be friend's posts, not your own? The 9 dot symbol is BTW confusing...
🌍 Perhaps an earth globe symbol for worldwide posts? Now it is some kind of circle?
🙂 What would be the best symbol for your own posts, a smiley? 🙂

And "+" symbol in messaging to start a new conversation should be bigger than now.

These for starters. Perhaps there is Friendica's development group where we should post these suggestions? 😀

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Pekka Kurki
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And, at the beginning if "home" (friend's posts) is empty, there would be nice to be an info text about how to connect with friends? It is very frustrating when at the first time you log in to Friendica, everything is empty and you have no idea how to get things working.
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Pekka Kurki
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Nice, thank you! But in mobile if I press 9 dots button, all bottom buttons disappear for some reason, and can't get them back. Is it a bug or just my device/browser?
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