(feat): New Hamburger Dropdown Item

@medworthy

The limited amount of links for both the Terms of Service, the Minds Teespring store and the Android mobile application (as well as other links), which are only displayed within the bottom portion of the left hand sidebar of the Newsfeed page also reduces end-user accessibility (and can be easily missed by users).

Also, I consider that the limited access to the Minds Teespring store restricts the promotion of associated Minds merchandising and reduces the ability for Minds Inc. to have an extra revenue stream.

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marked this issue as related to #1327 (closed)

@medworthy, have chatted with @javanick and we should have some mockups of the ordering and additions to be proposed, then we'll implement.

@benhayward.ben,
@javanick mentioned something to me about UI sketches just before he went on vacation (about two weeks ago). It would be interesting to have a look at the ideas.

Shall remember to ask @javanick to drop them in here when he has them. @jotto141 did you have anything to add to this?

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@benhayward.ben & @jotto141,
I have been further thinking about the overcrowding and "burger" menu issues, and may have come up with a possible solution (albeit a bit more of a "drastic" solution).

I think that to reduce the overcrowding of the "burger" UI, it would be wise to drop the following options from this menu: 1. Boost Console, 2. White Paper and 3. Content Policy.

Instead of the current setup, I suggest including the Boost Console in the users settings (preference) section, only provide access to the Whitepaper and Content Policy within the Terms section, and replacing the Whitepaper and Content policy entries (within the "burger" menu) with a single "Policy" entry. For the sake of consistency, I think that it would be appropriate to include the left-hand menu that is displayed within the Terms section into the Content Policy page (as well as including a link to the whitepaper within this left-hand menu. It might also be appropriate to add a link to the whitepaper within the bottom left-hand section of the News Feed page).

Considering that the phrase "Opt-in to Experiments" spans two lines, I think that it would be more sensible to relabel this entry to only displaying the term "Canary".

I am also wondering about the idea of only including the "dark / light mode" option within the users settings section as well (this would further free up some space within the "burger" menu).

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This is in danger of falling between the cracks so I've assigned it this sprint, @javanick @jotto141 any mockups would be very helpful.

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mentioned in issue #1327 (closed)

So @medworthy, are you still feeling in alignment with your idea above? I think the boost console will have to stay, because @edgebal has been putting a lot of work into &24 (closed), and with new tools available I think we want that in the forefront for users to see and use.

Whitepaper and content policy I agree with moving elsewhere. I would have to bounce that off the team because the admin team may feel that there is a need for the content policy there, but the whitepaper, I don't think needs to be there.

Opt into Experiments - Agreed. If anything the page for Canary I think is quite nice, and easy to understand. Changing it to just Canary may encourage more users to use it and help us out.

Dark mode... I agree with you but help and support blew up when we last took it out. I'm wary of making that change even if this time we move it somewhere accessible.

In a way its a tradeoff between us wanting to be informative, and the UX.

@benhayward.ben

This is going to be a BIG deal soon.

Seeing as Minds is not going to remove the android app (which intrinsically blocks some user content/channels) from the playstore anytime soon, we, the MCSOI, have made a priority of seeing the link to the android app hosted from Minds significantly less innocuous than the tiny, small print, link that nobody can really find on the main news feed.

Some folks seem to feel its so innocuous, that its almost like Minds dont want it to be found, and would rather have people using the censorship version of the android app hosted on the playstore.

I found this feature request here, but it was first raised in various posts across Minds months ago.

Can you please let me know when the android link will be placed into the hamburg menu, as this will be the focal point of our efforts to increase the accessibility of the app hosted on Minds, and the discouragement of user participation in the Google playstore app.

I will be pressing on this change in my posts.

Certainly up for discussion, but there is a need to cut things to make space for that.

Also see this pending merge request !357 (closed)