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Re: "Some UI improvement ideas"
@satch: you can hold as many times as you want if you enter the numbers directly into the URL, like ../app?34.
3 hours ago
🕹️ skyjake [...] · 2 hours ago:
Regarding point 1), are you suggesting that if you have several dice of the same value, you'd enter the same number multiple times to hold them individually?
Personally, I don't mind the current scheme, although since it's now a spatial ordering, it might indeed make sense to keep the dice positions the same until you manage to fill or start a new round.
Edit: I do have my own UI wish, though: there could be a shortcut to type instead of, say, 123456 when you want to hold all the dice. Maybe just type "all" instead of numbers?
@skyjake exactly, if I want to keep a one and a triple-5, I would enter '1555'. Instead of figuring out the position.
🍀 gritty [mod] · 27 minutes ago:
1 & 2) I'm not against this, but the index numbers are central to a lot of the code and a refactor would take quite some time. I can put this on the "eventually" list, and work on keeping the ordering. I didn't think the moving of the dice was much of an issue since folks weren't picking any more after selecting anyways, but I can look into it.
3) I can see what a UI tweak looks like to help mobile
🍀 gritty [mod] · 26 minutes ago:
@skyjake the idea also crossed my mind. I'll add to the todo list as well.
Some UI improvement ideas — UI considerations It may seem I am nitpicking, but hear me out. 1) There is no reason to enumerate the dice for input! Since the values are 1-6, you can just directly enter the _values_ of the dice you want instead of figuring out what _position_ they are in! In fact I routinely made such errors, entering 1 because I want to keep the one, even though it is in position 2, for instance. It is an unnecessary cognitive load! 2) After selection, the dice are redrawn, but...