Feedback on some of the new features (swipe for comments, fast forward)
First of all, I want to thank the devs for their work extending this, and I realize it’s free work. I flailed this as feature request for lack of a better choice, but I assume you folks do this partly to refine your ideas and it fits. I also realize everything I might dislike can be disabled easily.
1: the swipe up in gallery feature to show comments is a bit janky imo. For one thing, it fights my natural instinct from years of using Apollo- tap on something I want to zoom in, then swipe up to get it to go to normal and swipe up again to continue scrolling. I’m not precisely sure what the best ux here might be, maybe an option for swipe direction (even if it foists the question off to the user). All I know is swipe up as the action makes me disable it every time
2: on a related note, when I do have such comments enabled it takes a bit to load them. IMO prefetching the comments could improve the experience, if I want to swipe to quickly see the comments, having to then wait is counter to that goal.
3: disabling this feature in settings is doable, but the location of it in settings is a bit obscure. I think mentally you tied it to the new “gallery” feature where it is maybe more relevant (with no way to access comments otherwise) but it also occurs when browsing a regular feed
4: unrelated to the above, but the fast forwarding videos feature is really nice, but I find it being restricted to the right half of the screen unfortunate. I think other apps let you do this holding the left half, and I personally often one-hand my phone in my left hand.
Thanks for all the work!