Small changes lead on to big

I am not sure if I have missed this earlier somehow, but tonight the Steemit.com UI has put a bar in the comments section and allows the collapsing of comments.

So then it looks like this if all are collapsed.

I went to PAL and they have it too, minus the more obvious bar. I am not sure how both platforms got it so fast, but it could be that both have always had it and I am blind :D I like the bar itself but I think it would be better if there was an additional couple of features I will mention. But first, I rarely have used this sorter on comments, but I also noticed this:

Are there more options? I remember Trending and Age, but don't remember Votes and Reputation. I haven't used it for ages though and forget that it is there but it is a handy feature if getting lots of comments.

What should be added in my opinion is a "collapse/reveal all" option to make scrolling easier on the posts that get a lot of comments and, a "memory" that remembers what has been collapsed, at least while the browser is open. I am not sure how possible the second option is, but the first with a collapse/reveal button shouldn't be too stressful to integrate.

I was commenting on Hive account@juliakponsford's post asking what people want to see on the PAL trending and mentioned how many little tweaks and experiments are going on all over the Steem platform. In my opinion, it all adds a lot of value to the ecosystem, even if some of the tweaks don't work.

One of the benefits of having decentralized experiences that can have variants of tweaks to UI, UX and economy through native tokens is that a great deal of testing and learning can be done that distills and distributes through the community and acrocc platforms. This adds a change dynamic as well as competition but, still ties everything together for collaborative open-sourced growth.

What I am hoping is that in time there will be more customizable view options to tweak interfaces in ways that best suit the user for not just filtering, but layout of content. I would like to be able to have plugins for something like Hive account@steemworld so that I can get vital statistics shown live and a quick link to the full experience. Feeds for alternate fronts, a comment feed plugin perhaps that allows for answers straight from it like Hive account@arcange has created and the like.

This way, there could be bundles to set up a range of layouts and then a user can customize further. Not only this, various experiences could be integrated into the one page and if they each are tokenized on something like Hive account@steem-engine, be used from a central interface. Some of the apps could charge a fee for their use or, a fee for their premium app, others could aid in integrating to make user experience more seamless.

at some point, the design component of the UI has to start developing clean and functional designs so that people can use intuitively without having to learn much. Most of the design has already had experts create it on other platforms - go steal it and open source it all.

Anyway, this has been longer than I intended, but while some people scoff at these tweaks, I am glad that these small changes are happening as it keeps things ticking over and people exploring and finding aspects they might not have utilized earlier.

Taraz
[ a Steem original ]

Edit: it seems the collapse has been there for a long time, I just haven't used it :) a little tweak in UI makes a difference.