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Can we keep voting consistent?
It's kind of annoying to see the vote button for posts on the right, while it's on the far left for comments... what if they were all on the same side?
It's kind of annoying to see the vote button for posts on the right, while it's on the far left for comments... what if they were all on the same side?
From what I understand, that's done to make users think before they vote. On threads it's to the right so you have to read the full title first. On comments it's at the bottom for the same reason.
That’s actually really thoughtful. I’d like it to be the bottom right for comments if possible- it still encourages the same idea, but makes it easier long term.
In my opinion, it belongs on the left on desktop because the most common actions while going through the comments are generally collapsing and voting, so having those close to each other is best, otherwise you have to zig-zag your mouse back and forth constantly.
I'd like to add an option to flip both of them over to the right on mobile for people that browse using their right thumb though, I definitely recognize that it's annoying to have the two most common actions on the opposite side of the screen (and similarly, have an option to move topic voting to the left for people that use their left thumb).
Are you using Tildes on mobile? I can definitely see it being more annoying there, since it means you have to reach to the opposite side of the screen for one or the other.
I use it a little bit of everywhere- it’s definitely annoying on mobile, but I feel like I have to hunt for it on desktop. Having it separate on the right hand side seems like it would alleviate these issues.
I agree.
I figure you would want to move the vote button for comments to the right, but then you'd be right-justifying a little link when the text is left-justified; on a small screen you might miss it completely at the actual right side of the comment, and if you line it up with the ragged right margin of the text it would look a little weird.