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[Help] How do I close the menu without refreshing the feed? (lemmy.nz)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/voyagerapp@lemmy.world
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If I'm on a feed, say All, then I accidentally open the communities side bar, I cannot for the life of me work out how to close it without having to choose a feed or community, triggering a refresh.

This is worse when I'm on a post. I am here reading the comments in a post and accidentally open the communities side menu, how do I close it and stay on the post? I have almost no chance of finding that same post again 🙁

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[–] [S] 1 point 11 months ago (6 children)

Maybe, but I think many people would like the ability to do this regardless of the bug 😅.

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (5 children)

    Me too. I’ve personally never faced the bug you’ve mentioned myself but I do sometimes accidentally end up opening the communities sidebar and end up losing my place in the feed because I can’t just dismiss the sidebar. I have to select something and that will end up refreshing my feed. If we could just have a close button on the sidebar that would help immensely.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (4 children)

    What if there was a setting that would make a toast message come up “swipe again to close feed”?

    It would only activate/apply if the thing to swipe to is the communities list.

    I’d have to do some testing but that wouldn’t be that hard to implement.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (3 children)

    Not sure I fully understand. Did you mean swipe again to close feed or sidebar ? Just to be clear, what I’m looking for is a way to NOT close/refresh feed but to just dismiss the sidebar.

    I also didn’t fully understand the proposed solution. Are you saying that there already exists a way to do it now and all that is required is to show a toast to educate users on how to do it ? If so, I’d be happy to try that solution and see if works and if it does, showing a toast would certainly help. Or are you saying the default behaviour needs to be changed and the toast is just a bonus to let users know about the change ?

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago (2 children)

    Basically a popup if you try to press back from the home/all/local feed, to confirm you want to go back to the communities list.

    I have implemented it in beta so lmk what you think! There is a setting at the bottom of general to turn on/off (on by default).

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  • [–] 2 points 11 months ago (1 child)

    That was fast. Thank you. I got the beta via TestFlight but it’s still on an older version. I’ll wait for your changes to hit TestFlight and let you know how it works. Thanks again.

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  • [–] 1 point 11 months ago

    @aeharding@vger.social

    Just got the update on TestFlight and tried it out and it was not working. Went to commit history on GitHub to check if I have the right commit and I do but also noticed that the fix says it’s specific to android but I’m on iOS right now. Will try it out on an android device later and let you know.

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