Scorn

I am absolutely in love with the improvements that have been made to mobile viewing. As someone who prefers to do as much on mobile as possible, I really appreciate the obvious work put into the UI and navigation for mobile users. A previous frustration with v4 was the lack of having the same functions and information available on the mobile view and with v5 I am hard-pressed to find any of these same limitations. It no longer feels like mobile is a barebones copy, but a true extension of the community. I was also super impressed to see the features of the new theme editor, especially the ability to have a live view of all formats while you're editing. I enjoy this focus on simplicity and ease of use in 2024 when we all have better things to do than manually edit css files. It took me a while to find anything I thought needed improvement, but after some consideration here is what I could come with: The mobile topic list view, at least to me, is a tad confusing. The author's photo on the left, with the last posted user's written name also on the left gives the immediate impression that the topic was posted by Ehren instead of the author. I would suggest moving the last post author back to the right somehow, in order to create that separation of the two authors. Even just switching the last post author with the view/reply stats would do the trick. I find the tag placement a little… off. This is a tough one because I understand that you've got to be able to account for many different uses, text-lengths, and amounts of tags in the layout, so your options are limited I imagine. In a perfect world, I think I would love to see tags placed at the very bottom of the topic view in its own row or along side the view/reply counters. My gripe with tags is some topics have them, and some don't, so when it inserts tags into the middle of the information like pictured above, it kind of throws off the flow for the non-tagged topic, if you will. By putting them at the bottom of the topic view, I think would alleviate this break-up of the flow and instead allow it to be perceived more as additional instead of information that the other topics are missing. In absolute fairness, I am an old man with bad eyes for seeing tiny pictures and a distaste for tags in general, so this could just be my “get off my lawn” moment. Overall, I am thoroughly impressed with everything I have seen so far with this new version. I am not a current customer of your product simply out of the lack of need, but this new version has me sitting around asking myself how to explain to my wife why I need this just so I can play around with it. Keep up the amazing work and thank you for taking the time to review my feedback.