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Unsubscribe and Create a Post buttons are too similar & close to each other #2864

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foresto opened this issue Dec 17, 2024 · 1 comment
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foresto commented Dec 17, 2024

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  • This is a feature request and not a bug report. Otherwise, please create a new bug report instead.
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  • It's a single feature. Please don't request multiple features in one issue.

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When viewing a community or post, the Unsubscribe button is exactly the same size, shape, and color as the Create a Post button, and is even placed before it.

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Being human, I often click in a familiar web UI based on the shape and placement of buttons, rather than reading each button first to be sure it's the one I want. Since these two buttons are so similar, it is very easy to accidentally unsubscribe from a community when I wanted to post to it instead.

It's annoying in the best of cases. It becomes especially problematic with communities hosted on a large remote instance, because clicking the button again to re-subscribe often fails to work right away (presumably due to federation lag). The result is being suddenly left out of the community in which I was trying to participate, sometimes for hours or days, or even forever until I notice that subscription didn't work and try again.

Please consider making these buttons difficult to mistake for one another. Placing the Post button closer to the top would probably make sense, as I suspect it is the more common operation. Moving the two buttons away from each other and giving them different sizes & colors would make them easy to distinguish at a glance. Making the Subscribe/Unsubscribe button less prominent when the user is already subscribed, or maybe even using two separate buttons for these operations instead of a toggle, would surely help avoid accidents.

Thank you.

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I'd be open to mockups if you want, but its probably not that necessary since if someone accidentally unsubscribes, you can just click the same button again to re-subscribe. Its a non-destructive action that's rectified in less than a second.

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